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On the Wind Sailing

Travel on a Human Scale // Andy's Essay

On the Wind Sailing

Andy Schell

Sports, Wilderness, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8593 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2014

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

#54. This week I read an essay I wrote for Broadreach's blog about how sailing brings you back to the world as it was meant to be for humans. It's more philosophical than practical, but hopefully is inspiring! What did you think?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Anna Winners live from Sweden.

0:03.0

Welcome back to the 59 North Sailing Podcast with your host, Andy Schell.

0:07.0

Enjoy the show.

0:08.0

Hey, hey, welcome back to the 59 North Sailing Podcast.

0:11.0

This is your host, Andy Shell, and I've got another episode, sorry, another essay episode for you this Friday.

0:17.0

This one is one I wrote for Broadreach's new blog. Broadreach is a company I used to

0:23.5

work for in the Caribbean, did four seasons with them, two summers and two winters, skippering

0:28.3

boats on sailing and diving expeditions. It's a fantastic program. It's something I wish I still

0:34.1

could be doing. And if they had full-time employment, I might still be working there.

0:38.0

But anyway, if you're a teenager or if you have kids that are teenagers and want to experience

0:43.6

the adventure of a lifetime, check out go broadreach.com.

0:47.0

I cannot recommend them enough.

0:49.2

It was fantastic to work there, and it would be even better to be a student there.

0:52.3

So go broadreach.com, fully supportive of them.

0:56.0

This is basically a short essay on how sailing basically lets us travel at a slower pace

1:01.8

and sort of re-imagines or re-not re-imagines, but kind of re-establishes what the world is like on a human scale.

1:09.8

So with that, I'll leave you with this essay Friday.

1:12.6

Thank you for listening.

1:14.6

And the days when I was coached and I was never tired of sorts

1:18.6

for the yellow sand the hall house and then is a place between

1:21.6

Well, I told me from this, James, I'll go up and I'll be famous.

1:25.6

So go and tell the vice, some they were leaving here today. So to goodbye for she's jerkin, I'm sick off and I'll be famous. So go and tell the vice from the neighbor leaving here today.

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