Victoria Low // Magenta Project CEO

On the Wind Sailing

Andy Schell

Sports, Wilderness, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Victoria Low is the newly appointed CEO of The Magenta Project. I first met Vicky back in 2021, after being told she was the person to talk to if you're planning any serious international sailing campaign — and it's easy to see why. With over three decades in sailing public relations and communications, including five Volvo Ocean Race campaigns, she really understands how this sport tells its story. What is so impressive about Vicky is how she uses that insight — and her influence — to drive real change. From authoring a report on women in sailing that exposed endemic discrimination, to leading The Magenta Project, she's exposing truths, finding real solutions and paving new pathways for the next generation of female sailors.

This season of ON THE WIND is sponsored by Weather Routing Inc., aka 'WRI', 59º North's longtime weather routing & forecasting friends. To learn more and sign up for WRI, go to wriwx.com and tell them that 59º North sent you.

This season of ON THE WIND is also sponsored by Boat How To, an educational website co-founded by longtime friend of the pod & sailing tech guru Nigel Calder. Check out the courses at BoatHowTo.com.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Oh, I'm shipmates. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm your host, Andy, though Nikki Henderson is standing in for me today as the host of this episode.
0:07.2	A couple quick updates from 59 North at 59 degrees north latitude. I'm sitting in Mission Control back in Sweden.
0:13.6	It's summer here, which is so nice. My dad and I delivered new Spica up to Stockholm last week, a long overnight, which was awesome. I went and bought
0:23.3	a Torquito yesterday from a friend, so we have a nice outboard for Axle's dingy, and we're going
0:29.1	out on Thursday this week to go for day sale. First time we'll have Axel out on his new boat,
0:34.1	get the dinghy out, go for a little adventure. It's going to be super fun. My dad and my sister here from the U.S. Very excited to sail my own boat in Sweden, which is going to be great.
0:43.4	A couple updates at 59 North. We've got Boat Show coming up. That's in October. We've got our
0:49.6	annual party and our annual seamanship seminar. Both of those you can sign up for at 59-north.com
0:55.6	slash boat show. So get on that. Mia and myself, as well as a bunch of 59 North friends
1:00.8	and former crew are going to be there. We've also going to do another transatlantic this year,
1:08.0	October 1st. That means you won't be able to come Boecho, but around October 1st,
1:12.3	we're going to be sailing Adrienne back from Brazil to the Canaries. Adrianne, of course, is a
1:18.2	Swan 70 that we sailed across the Atlantic back in February. It's used for the Swedish TV show
1:23.7	Eurva Atlantan, which literally means over the Atlantic, where Gura Kranz, a former podcast guest,
1:29.6	takes a bunch of celebrities and actors and they sail across the Atlantic and film it,
1:33.2	and all sorts of fun things happen. We sailed the boat back in February. It was a great success.
1:37.7	We've got six crew places open for that. Eric Nordbordi, our skipper who sailed on Falcon a bunch,
1:43.4	is going to be leading that
1:45.0	program. It's going to be run just like any other 59 North trip on an awesome Swan 70, which is
1:50.6	actually a modified Swan 651. Very cool boat. It's 3,000 miles. You also get to cross the
1:56.3	equator. So it's going from Salvador, Brazil, back to the Canaries, Grand Canaria. I think it's just under 3,000 miles plus an equator crossing. Mia is sending a newsletter out about that this Friday. So if you're not signed up yet, go to 59-north.com slash news. Otherwise, you can sign up for that trip right now. It's on the website. Go to the sign-up page and you can register right there.
2:18.8	All right. Without further ado, here's Nikki Henderson with this week's episode. Also should note
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