Tom Harkin RECYCLED // US Senator
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2017
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
#185. Retired Senator Tom Harkin & I recorded this 'recycled' episode at his house in Hope Town, in the Bahamas, almost two years ago now. Tom was a career senator, but this episode is nothing about politics. Rather, it's about Tom's incredible, unbelievable life story. He was a fighter pilot during Vietnam and became one of the few people ever to eject from a jet and survive to tell the tale. He also tells his insane story about building a wooden trimaran in Japan and having it's Westerbeke engine shipped over on an aircraft carrier. Sailing has been the 'red thread' that has tied together Tom's life story. This is my all-time favorite interview, so even if you've heard it before, it's worth another listen.
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| 0:00.0 | And then I felt this jerk and then I saw this fireball. |
| 0:07.0 | Huge fireball because I had a full bag of fuel. |
| 0:11.0 | And the plane hit the ground and just blew up. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey gang, I'm recording this in real time. |
| 0:18.0 | It's Tuesday, March 28th, my sister's birthday happy birthday kate and i'm home |
| 0:22.5 | in pennsylvania at her house in the countryside enjoying a long weekend off the boat between trips |
| 0:27.4 | me and i've had amazing season so far um four trips down and seven to go for 2017 got one more |
| 0:35.4 | caribbean jaunt next week to grenada and back, and then we'll be on our way |
| 0:38.7 | to Europe. I hope it goes without saying, but Mia and I are extremely grateful to both our |
| 0:44.1 | East Bjorn crew and our podcast supporters for allowing us to live this incredible lifestyle. |
| 0:50.4 | And by following our dreams, we hope that we're continuing to inspire you guys to follow yours. |
| 0:56.9 | Of course, you can join us on East Pjorn for a taste of ocean sailing yourself. |
| 1:01.3 | Go to 59-north.com slash offshore to check out our updated calendar. |
| 1:06.3 | We've got three spaces left for 2017 in the Baltic in August, and then we're pretty much |
| 1:11.4 | wide open in 2018 with available spaces on all of our Arctic passages. |
| 1:16.6 | So we hope to see you out there, guys. |
| 1:19.5 | And of course, don't forget if you want to support the podcast, contribute directly to us |
| 1:23.2 | at on the wind.co. |
| 1:25.0 | Just click the big blue fund button. |
| 1:29.0 | Or if you remember on Patreon, you can go to patreon.com slash on the wind.co. Just click the big blue fund button. Or if you remember on Patreon, |
| 1:34.8 | you can go to patreon.com slash on the wind to subscribe to us there. Obviously, huge, huge, |
| 1:40.7 | huge thanks to those of you who continue to support us and review us on iTunes. I read all that stuff and it's really inspiring to me and keeps me motivated to do this stuff. |
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