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On the Wind Sailing

Will & Sarah Curry // Hydrovane Operations & Life Balance

On the Wind Sailing

Andy Schell

Sports, Wilderness, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8593 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Will and Sarah Curry are the perfect example of a young family who has managed to create and sustain a life between land and sea, managing and operating "Hydrovane" from their catamaran with 2 littles, and from their home in Vancouver. First and foremost we discuss the ins and outs of the fantastic and hardy product itself — but on a more personal level they share a bit about finding their limits aboard, adjustments they had to make when the boys came aboard, and their willingness to live in and accept a constant state of change and adventure. I love these two dearly and they are such an inspiration!

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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. 

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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

And so he called up Derek Daniels, the original hydrovane inventor in England, and said, I need a hydrovane for my boat.

0:06.0

And Derek said, well, I can get you one, but I'm thinking of passing on the business.

0:10.1

And my dad didn't really think much of it, but he told my mom, and my mom said, call him back, find out what the story is.

0:18.0

Hi, everyone, and welcome back to the show.

0:20.3

This is Mia, still running the office in Sweden,

0:23.3

while Andy is on Falcon in the Pacific. They just took off from the Marquesis on the way to Tahiti.

0:29.7

They had about a 10-day stop in the Marquesas. They went hiking, did some boat maintenance.

0:35.2

I know they fixed some stuff on the water maker, and I also

0:39.0

heard some rumors about some tattoos. So I'll see how that goes when they get back home.

0:43.7

Isbion, on the other hand, she's above the Arctic Circle in Lofoten at the moment. They're going

0:48.7

to head south down to Flom in Norway, and it's a big contrast between the two boats.

0:55.4

Falcon is in the hot, humid Pacific.

0:57.7

While Isbjöne on the last trip, one of the days when they were sailing, they had snow

1:02.0

coming down.

1:03.0

So, what's new at 59 North?

1:04.9

If you want to come sailing with us, check out the page 59.0.com slash bunks to see what's open, both in 25, 26 and Falcon in 27.

1:15.9

We added a new trip in the end of June, early July on Eastbjorn. We call it a sail training,

1:22.5

sea trial trip. It's a week long and it's between two maintenance periods on East Bjorn.

1:28.6

So it will be a combination of sail training but also a sea trial and checking out the new systems,

1:33.8

a few things that we've been updating on East Bjorn.

1:36.1

So it's a great combination if you want to learn not just about sailing, but also how some systems works.

1:41.4

And it will be a little bit more in depth about that stuff. So check that out at, it's called Leg 5A on Isbjvjn, and you'll find it under the open banks. And a few weeks ago, we opened up the 27 calendar on Falcon. It's a bit hard to leave the Pacific, I must say. I haven't even been there yet. I'm going to go sailing there next year.

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