He showed me Joshua Slocum's book when I was at school.

And I devoured it.

I read Bill Robinson's book, Deepwater and Shoal, again encouraged by my father.

And I read Bill's book and I thought, well, my goodness me, if he did that, maybe I could do that as well.

Hey team, Andy here here as I record this it's my last weekend in the house in Sweden as of April 1st we officially became owners of the farm here so now we have our shore base at 59 degrees north latitude, as it were. We've got 100 acres of

farmland here and a nice little old farmhouse that is going to be our base of operations. I'm building a

gym. We've got a little outdoor, not an outdoor, but one of the barns has a really neat little

space that I'm hoping to turn into an office. We're installing geothermal heat this summer, so I don't have to make fires

four times a day. It's just a nice, cozy place to call home and makes it easier for us to travel

as much as we travel, knowing that we have a place to keep all of our stuff. So that's exciting

news for us. More exciting still is that East Bjorn is newly refit and we are moving onto the boat. We'll be on the boat by the time you hear this, but we're moving on to the boat in a couple days. So I'm going to join the last weekend at the house watching the Masters Golf Tournament, so about 10 hours in front of the television every day for four days. It's my favorite sporting event of the year, so I can't wait to do that. And then we'll be moving back aboard East Bjorn. So by the time you hear this, we'll be living on the boat and doing some shakedown sailing on the west coast of Sweden. I just wanted to give a little background on this Tom Cunlef episode. Mia and I, when we went to the UK for our STCW course in January,

we actually got invited to Tom's house to record an interview. He lives in the new forest.

So we got to go there, sit in his living room, meet him and his wife, Roz, and had,

I say this a lot, but this was really an awesome conversation. I could have sat there and

talk to Tom for three hours, but I had places an awesome conversation. I could have sat there and talked to

talk to Tom for three hours, but I had places to be, he had places to be, and I'm sure there

will be a round two in the future. So really cool to see Tom. I got to sit in his Bentley. He has a

1949 Bentley that he calls Reggie. I got to sit in it in the garage, so that was really cool.

And also, this is the first episode that my friend and host of Sailing Stories podcast, Lee

Cumberland, he is now going to be the producer on On the Wind.

So this is the first episode that Lee is producing.

He will be producing all the episodes this summer while we're up in the Arctic.

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