Yves Gelinas // Single-Hander
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2014
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
#34. Yves Gelinas of Cape Horn Marine Products was on the show last year, coming to us from his office on the Ottawa River in Quebec. Andy was in Sweden and Ryan in Pittsburgh, so it's the first three-country podcast! Yves is a wonderful guy, a solo sailor, artist, inventor and businessman who gave up a successful career in filmmaking to pursue his dreams of sailing. In 1983 he completed production on 'With Jean du Sud Around the World', the film account of his solo circumnavigation via the Roaring Forties. The film won numerous awards following it's release, and is still considered by many as the finest sailing film ever produced. Yves discussed that project with us, his philosophy on art, life and sports, and how he got into the business of designing and producing the Cape Horn windvane self-steering system. Check out www.capehorn.com to learn more about that and to contact Yves. Thanks Yves!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to 59 degrees north with Andy Shell. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:05.6 | Hey, hey, welcome back to the 59 degrees north sailing podcast. It's Andy Shell here again. |
| 0:11.7 | Another rerun right now. I've been really busy traveling. I just came to Sweden yesterday, |
| 0:17.4 | nine hours in the plane, one hour of sleep, and lots of coffee yesterday. But I'm just getting |
| 0:22.6 | settled in over here. We'll have a new episode up on Friday, I hope. For now, this is a rerun of |
| 0:28.3 | Eve Gellina, the French single-handed sailor, who's also the inventor of the Cape Horn |
| 0:33.2 | Winvain. I left the intro in from that one. This was on two inspired guys a couple years ago |
| 0:37.8 | with Ryan and myself, so you can hear the rest of the intro on that. This episode is sponsored |
| 0:43.0 | by Weems and Plath, yet again. Thanks to them for sponsoring this, Weems dashplath.com. Weems |
| 0:49.2 | and Plath is a maker of traditional nautical instruments and navigation equipment for over 85 years. |
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| 1:04.0 | plus some really cool gift and trophy ideas. |
| 1:06.2 | Williamson Plath actually sponsors the Navigators Award for the rallies that we run |
| 1:09.9 | and also does the plaques and does the engraving and stuff. So really cool stuff that they do. I just got a new Weems and Plath. It's actually a C-Path. It's called a Merker Compass that we're mounting on Arcturists, which we're going to launch next week. So really cool stuff. Check out Weems-Plaath.com and use the promo code 59 North. |
| 1:28.7 | That's 59 capital N-O-R-T-H to get 30% off your order online. |
| 1:34.1 | So thanks again to Weems and Plath. |
| 1:36.1 | Without further ado, I'll slide right into the old intro for Eve Jelena, episode number 33. |
| 1:42.6 | Thanks for listening. |
| 1:43.4 | Bonjour and Benz. |
| 1:44.7 | Bonsoir, madame and messieurs. |
| 1:46.8 | Welcome to two inspired guys with Andy and Ryan. |
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