Hello and welcome to another episode of the Grey NATO. It's a loose discussion of travel, adventure, diving, driving, driving gear, and most certainly watches. This is episode 381, and it's proudly brought to you by the always-growing TGN supporter crew. We thank you so much for your continued support, and if you're listening and would like to be part of the crew, please visit thegraynato.com for more details. My name is James Sacy.

I'm joined as ever by my friend and co-host, Jason Heaton.

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My name is James Sacey. I'm joined as ever by my friend and co-host, Jason Heaton. Jason, how are we doing today? I'm hanging in there. Yeah, it's a lovely summer Tuesday here. Yeah, same. Had some really great weather here. It's supposed to get hot next week, but we've had that kind of sweet spot of low humidity and decent temperatures, cool mornings. It's been,

it's been great. Yeah, that's fabulous. Yeah, we had, uh, to get hot next week, but we've had that kind of sweet spot of low humidity and decent temperatures,

cool mornings. It's been, it's been great. Yeah, that's fabulous. Yeah, we had, I just got back from Halifax last night from Sale GP with Rolex. We'll get into that in a future episode. We have

lots of tangentially Rolex topics to talk about, a tangential Rolex topics to talk about on the next couple of episodes. But yeah, I just got back and got up this morning and took the trash out and it's like one of those perfect summer mornings. Kind of still, a little bit of a breeze, took our son to daycare. And it was just a really nice walk. And then then I was walking back replying to emails as you're

always doing and I like check my schedule to see like when could I go for a nice long walk I'm not

going to get one today but hopefully hopefully the weather holds as I'm I'm down to New York

tomorrow for a couple of days and then I'm really hoping I come back in time for like a killer

weekend at the at the cottage.

Yeah, that'll be great. Yeah. Yeah. But speaking of killer weekends, how do you like that transition?

Wind up Chicago. So we have a Friday night event with Citizen. That'll be July 10th, 7 to 9th at Forbidden Root in Chicago. This is a fully RSVPed event. It is filling up very quickly. You can find the link in the show notes. It was shared previously with the TGN Slack. So if you're on the Slack, you can find it there as well in the Meetups channel. And I think also in the wind up Chicago channel, if you'd like to RSVP. There is a chance at this point that you will end up on a wait list. So please keep an eye out closer to the evening of the event for your ticket in the event that we're able to release some from the wait list. And then if you decide not to go, this is quite important. If you're currently RSVPed and you decide not to go, please cancel your ticket so that somebody else can grab it. But please pay attention to the RSVP link, which you can find in the show or on the Slack. Jason, looking forward to Chicago. It's going to be good. Yeah, and boy, it's coming up fast. It's what we're recording this on the 23rd, seven days left in this month, and then, yeah, 10 more to go. I mean, it's less than three weeks away. The summer pace. Right. Yeah.

It was a long winter and then, yeah, 10 more to go. I mean, it's less than three weeks away.

The summer pace. Right. Yeah, typical. It was a long winter and it's looking like it's going to be a short summer. Oh, man, don't say that. So yeah, I want to get into your trip with Nat Geo and

Rolex. I think that's going to be great. And it'll form the bulk of today's topic along with two really

fascinating interviews. But I just got back from Halifax did a few days with Sail GP. And I think I

might be converted. I think I found my next sport to kind of follow. Yeah. It's absolutely fabulous in person.

It's really fast-paced and close to shore and kind of, especially with your phone or with it on the TV, really easy to kind of get an idea of what they're doing. Otherwise, it just kind of looks like boats out on the water. There's not like a, there's only a few markings for the course and that sort of thing. Yeah. But I just absolutely enjoyed it. In Halifax. Wow, it's my first time out there in what a city. It's great.

Yeah, it looked. and that sort of thing. Yeah. But I just absolutely enjoyed it. The, in Halifax.

Wow,

it's my first time out there

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