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Andy Schell's conversations with sailors. '59 Degrees North' is informal chats with people from around the world of sailing - tall ship captains, Cape Horners, sailing authors, Volvo Ocean Race skippers, yacht designers, family cruisers, Arctic adventurers and more. Plus the occasional rant on ocean safety or narrative stories about crossing big oceans in small sailboats. Our aim is to define what creates success in the sailing world and figure out how to accomplish dreams on the high seas.

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Fall Events // Celestial & ...

08.13.2020

INTRO TO CELESTIAL NAV // Sept. 12 & 13 in Bergen, Norway with ISBJORN skipper August Sandberg! RIGGING WORKSHOP // 3 Sessions, starting in Oct., Annapolis, MD with Andy, Mia & Mike Meer at Port Annapolis Marina! Sign up for ...

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08.13.2020 Fall Events // Celestial & Rigging Workshops INTRO TO CELESTIAL NAV // Sept. 12 & 13 in Bergen, Norway with ISBJORN skipper August Sandberg! RIGGING WORKSHOP // 3 Sessions, starting in Oct., Annapolis, MD with Andy, Mia & Mike Meer at Port Annapolis Marina! Sign up for ...
08.04.2020 Don McIntyre // Sailor, Adventurer, GGR & OGR Founder Don McIntyre is an adventurer, pure and simple, and every crazy idea he's had throughout his long career has started with that one idea…that adventure is something where the outcome is uncertain. The final episode of the 2020 Summer Season ...
07.28.2020 Barry Kennedy // South Georgia to St. Croix COVID-19 Escape Barry Kennedy is a high-latitude sailor and helicopter pilot whose been all of the world pursuing both, from Cape Horn and Antarctica to the oil fields of the Middle East and the wilderness of Alaska. Barry had his own COVID-19 ...
07.21.2020 Andy & Mia // A New Boat & a Look Back Andy & Mia bought a new boat! They sit down for a special episode reminiscing about the podcast's long history, and talking about some exciting news for their future and the future of 59º North. -- BOAT SHOPPING!, Part Two! ...
07.14.2020 Kristen Berry // COVID-19 Escaping the Caribbean August Sandberg interviews ISBJORN skipper Kristen Berry who flew to St. Thomas to rescue the boat from hurricane season down-island. August, ISBJORN's primary skipper, meanwhile, was stuck in Norway under lockdown and unable to travel to the boat himself. After ...
07.09.2020 Mike Beemer // Refitting a Westsail 39 Mike Beemer is an instructor at Skagit Valley Community College out in the Pacific Northwest. The school has recently purchased an old Westsail 39 that his students will renovate over the course of the next school year into an offshore-capable ...
06.30.2020 Dylan Magaster // #VanLife to #BoatLife Dylan Magaster is the founder of FLORB Productions, or "floating orb", which , in a nutshell, films interviews with folks into the "alternative house" - think 'tiny house' - movement. Dylan was himself a #vanlifer, until he recently made the ...
06.23.2020 Susie Goodall // Surviving the Golden Globe Race #296. Susie Goodall sailed her 36' Rustler DHL STARLIGHT in the 2018 solo round-the-world Golden Globe Race, getting pitchpoled in the Southern Ocean and needing a dramatic rescue to get safely to shore. For the first time publicly, Susie recounts ...
06.16.2020 Nick Ryley // Swan 48 WARBABY Crew, 1972 Our beloved Swan 48 ISBJORN has made many good friends through the years, but few go as far back as Nick Ryley. He was full-time crewmember on ISBJORN in 1972 when she was brand-new, then called WARBABY, and has lots ...
06.09.2020 Bill Pinkney // AMISTAD Captain, Limbo Dancer & Solo Circumnavigator #294. Bill Pinkney first dreamed about the ocean as a small boy growing up in Chicago. He got his first real start on the ocean with the US Navy int he 1950s, and for years held on to his sailing ...
06.03.2020 How WE Think About Sailing // Panel Discussion #293. Andy hosts a live panel discussion with Brian Trautman from SV Delos, John Harries of morganscloud.com, legendary solo sailor Pete Goss and Meg & Morgen of Ocean Racers. This two-hour chat covers how each of these accomplished sailors thinks ...
05.12.2020 Gunnar Krantz // Whitbread Sailor & TV Star #292. Gunnar Krantz has competed in 4 of the iconic Whitbread/Volvo Round-the-World races, skippering two of them and sailing hundreds of thousands of offshore miles in the process. He was also recently the skipper of the Swedish TV show 'Over ...
05.05.2020 Celestial Nav // Andy & August Talk History & Philosophy #291. Now made obsolete by technology, the romantic aspect of celestial navigation will never die. Andy & August talk history & philosophy of celestial during our latest LIVE session. If you want to see the visuals, watch the replay at ...
04.28.2020 Jeff Thayer // Lightning Strikes Offshore #290. Jeff Thayer is a physicist, and back in the Space Shuttle days, studied and designed lightning defense systems for NASA to protect the Shuttle and other NASA rockets while they sat, vulnerable, tall metal objects on the launchpad in ...
04.20.2020 Sailing Naked // Germany-Caribbean via Greenland #289. Joscha & Niklas are two friends from Germany who set out on the dark-blue-hulled Bavaria in search of adventure. They've found it in spades, crossing the far north Atlanic via Iceland & Greenland, and winding up in the Caribbean ...
04.15.2020 Barry Walton // 'Reaching Reality' Sailing Film #288. Barry Walton speaks with ISBJORN skipper & guest-host August Sandberg about his documentary film series REACHING REALITY, where he and two friends set out down the Baja Peninsula in search of adventure on their 24-foot sailboat. -- Join 59º ...
04.07.2020 Brian, Karin & Sierra // The DELOS Family #287: Brian & Kazza and their new daughter Sierra join Andy & Mia onboard ICEBEAR in the BVI in February to talk about their lives since the Svalbard adventure in 2018. -- ON THE WIND is presented by Sailing Yacht ...
04.04.2020 Sean Westoby // Ice Bear Isolation in Grenada #286. Sean Westoby is the current fill-in skipper for Ice Bear as she weathers the coronavirus in Grenada, Isbjorn skipper August Sandberg talks to him about the current conditions in Grenada and what the future holds for ocean sailing. -- ...
03.31.2020 Ryan & Sophie Sailing // How a Goose Attack Started a Sailing Adventure #285. Ryan Ellison & Sophie Darsy have become close friends of ours in the years since we first met them in Stockholm. Non-sailors initially, they bought a Beneteau 40 they named POLAR SEAL, and set out on a cruise of ...
03.24.2020 COVID-19 Crisis // 59º North's Contingency Planning #284. Andy leads a roundtable discussion with all of 59º North's stakeholders (minus Mia), including Lee Cumberland, Ryan Finstad, Ryan Ellison & skipper August Sandberg. The gang talks about how COVID-19 is impacting our 2020 sailing season, how we're thinking ...
03.17.2020 Bela Musits // 'The Unconventional Path' #283: Bela Musits // 'The Unconventional Path' Bela Musits Hosts the podcast “the unconventional path” all about taking unconventional paths to build your career and business. Bela actually interviewed andy for his show and that episode aired last week. they ...
02.13.2020 BONUS: Beta Engine Refit on ARCTURUS // HITAS S3, #5 Andy discusses the Beta Engine refit he and Mia did on ARCTURUS in Sweden in 2013, with the help of their friend Micah. This is episode #5, season 3 of our other show, HOW I THINK ABOUT SAILING, which you ...
01.02.2020 MAJOR Announcement // How I Think About Sailing Season 3 Preview Andy & Mia record from the cockpit of ICEBEAR in Antigua with not one but two MAJOR announcements. Hold on to your hats, it’s Season 3 of ‘How I Think About Sailing!’ (Happy New Year!) -- Subscribe to How I ...
12.10.2019 Liz Wardley // MAIDEN Skipper #282. Liz Wardley is the current skipper of MAIDEN, the famous Whitbread yacht which saw the first all-girl crew complete the round-the-world race in 1989. Liz has never NOT been a professional racing skipper. Getting her first taste of sailing ...
12.03.2019 Rachel Slade // Into the Raging Sea Author Re-Issue #281 (#251 Re-Issue). Rachel Slade is the acclaimed author of INTO THE RAGING SEA, the riveting and heartbreaking account of the loss of the American merchant ship EL FARO, with all hands, in hurricane Joaquin in 2015. We’re re-issuing this ...
11.26.2019 Stories from the Arctic // SV DELOS & 59 North #280. Back in 2018, the crew of SV DELOS joined Mia, James & I onboard ISBJORN for a 3-week adventure in the High Arctic. Needless to say, it was life-changing. Earlier this fall, we got to relive the adventure with ...
11.21.2019 Dee Caffari // 6x Round the World #279. Dee Caffari is perhaps the most accomplished sailor I've ever had on the show, and she's easily the most inspiring. Dee has sailed around the world a full 6 times, 3 of them solo and nonstop, and most recently ...
11.05.2019 Kass Schmitt // The 2017 OSTAR Gale #278. Kass Schmitt is a solo sailor who has had a dream of completing the OSTAR Race, the original single-handed trans-Atlantic race, which back in the 1960's, began the solo racing scene we know today. Kass, unassuming and thoughtful, set ...
10.29.2019 Billy Swezey & Sierra Groth // Tula's Endless Summer #277. Sierra Groth & Billy Swezey are the inspiring couple behind Tula's Endless Summer. Their adventure started when Billy bought a dilapidated boat that had been abandoned in a New York boatyard and set about restoring her and meandering his ...
10.23.2019 Pip Hare // The Race of Her Life #276. Pip Hare is a lifelong professional sailor and a wonderfully inspiring person. Mia & I traveled to the south coast of England to meet Pip aboard her IMOCA 60 SUPER BIGOU, a 'recycled' Open 60 she is gearing up ...
10.15.2019 Lin Pardey // A Legendary Life at Sea #275. The legendary Lin Pardey is back on ON THE WIND! Way back in 2013 when I first started the show, Lin & Larry Pardey were episode #2. Six years and 273 episodes later, and Lin is back, live in ...
10.08.2019 Max Campbell // Surviving the Atlantic #274. Max Campbell left England shortly after his 20th birthday in a rebuilt 22-foot wooden sloop, bound for adventure. He set out, as many Europeans do, travelling for his gap year with no real plans and not a lot of ...
10.01.2019 Lars Ström // The Nautor's Swan 'Professor' #273. Lars Ström is known as 'The Professor' of Nautor's Swan. Now 80 years old and retired, Lars worked at the famed Nautor boatyard in Finland for nearly his entire career, and indeed during the period in the 1970s when ...
09.26.2019 Sailing Stories: 80 NORTH #1 Episode one of the new season of Sailing Stories, featuring the story of 59 North and SV Delos and their adventures aboard ISJORN in the High Arctic. Buy the second edition of the book at 59-north.com/80north.
09.19.2019 Sailing Stories: 80º North PREVIEW Special teaser for the new season of Sailing Stories: 80º North, featuring Andy, Mia, Ship's Photographer James Austrums and the crew of SV Delos! Subscribe to Sailing Stories and stay tuned for Season 3, dropping September 26, 2019! Buy the ...
08.27.2019 Dane Miller // Finding Religion Offshore, 'The Root' Podcast BONUS. Andy & his childhood friend Dane Miller sit down for a special episode of Dane’s ‘The Root’ podcast to talk about some of Andy’s religious experiences offshore. Subscribe to Dane's podcast 'The Root,' wherever you get your podcasts. View ...
08.20.2019 Andy & Mia // Out the Gate Sailing Podcast BONUS. Andy & Mia are interviewed by Ben Shaw for his Out the Gate Sailing podcast, recorded aboard ICEBEAR in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. 59-north.com/offshore
08.13.2019 Jeremy Davis, Weatherman // ICEBEAR Passage Debrief #272. Jeremy Davis, weather guru, comes on the show to debrief his passage from Lunenburg-Newfoundland on ICEBEAR. He shares what he learned as a forecaster, getting offshore for the first time. Sail south on ISBJORN in November. Check out 59-north.com/offshore ...
08.06.2019 John Harries Round 3 #271 John Harries, the founder of morganscloud.com, AKA ‘Attainable Adventure Cruising,’ and in my opinion the foremost authority on safe and simple ocean sailing boats & equipment. He’s an accomplished high latitudes sailor with over 150,000 miles under his keel. ...
07.16.2019 Ben Shaw & Lauren Keane // ICEBEAR Crew & Living the Dream #270. Ben Shaw & Lauren Keane were recent crewmembers on ICEBEAR for the Annapolis to Lunenburg passage. Mia & I first met Ben’s parents, Sid & Rebecca, in 2011 in St. Pierre, as we were getting ready to sail ARCTURUS ...
07.02.2019 Charlie Doane // Sailing Journalism & The New Lunacy #269. Charlie Doane is a long-time Editor-at-large with SAIL Magazine, and a lifeline sailor. I've known Charlie for years, and FINALLY got to sit down for a long chat with him aboard his new Boreal 47 LUNACY in St. George's ...
06.18.2019 Matt Rutherford // ORP Update & Sailing Isbjorn #268. The one and only Matt Rutherford is back on the show yet again! Matt & I sat down to chat aboard ICEBEAR in Annapolis as he was getting ready to take ISBJORN north to Newport. As is normally the ...
06.11.2019 Meg & Morgen // Racing Adventure Business #267. Meg and Morgen are the couple behind Ocean Racers, sailing a Pogo 12.50 (think cruising 'Class 40') on the Atlantic racing circuit and taking paying crew along for the adventure. They earned their chops - and met each other ...
06.04.2019 Ben Doerr Returns // ISBJORN Mate & Sail 2 Ski #266 Ben Doerr is the owner of Sail Bainbridge, which operate charters is the region Bainbridge Island Region. He is also a husband, father of two, and professional musician with the indie-folk band, St. Paul de Vence. Andy and Ben ...
05.21.2019 Chris Stanmore-Major Returns // Solo Round-the-World Ambitions #265. Chris Stanmore-Major returns to the podcast for another super-inspiring chat about ocean sailing. Chris is hugely accomplished, having sailed over 300,000 miles offshore, mostly racing. In the last episode with Chris, # 227, we discussed his sailing history and ...
05.14.2019 Bruce Schwab #2 // Diesel v. Electric Propulsion #264. Vendee Globe sailor Bruce Schwab returns to the podcast with guest hosts (and now Isbjorn skippers!) Ben Doerr & Simon Borjeson, to discuss the power management refit options for ICEBEAR, our Swan 59. Bruce runs Ocean Planet Energy in ...
04.30.2019 Øyvind Vedvik // Helly Hansen Sailing #263. Øyvind Vedvik is the Sailing Category Managing Director at Helly Hansen, who have been a longtime supporter of 59 North. Øyvind grew up sailing in the fjords of Norway and along the Scandinavian coastlines and has had a passion ...
04.16.2019 Pawel Motawa // Antarctic Sailor & Media Producer #262. Pawel Motawa is one of the first guests I ever interviewed WAY back in my 'Two Inspired Guys' days in 2012. Then, he had just completed the ARC rally in St. Lucia, and I was drawn to his bright ...
04.09.2019 Gerard Dykstra // Iconic Yacht Designer #261. Gerard Dykstra is one of the world's iconic yacht designers. He's most notable to me as the designer of the Bestevaer 53, by far my favorite of all the aluminum expedition yachts which are now so popular. And he ...
03.28.2019 How I Think About Sailing, S2 #10 // ICEBEAR 1st Impressions BONUS: Andy & Mia discuss the first six weeks onboard ICEBEAR for this week's episode of How I Think About Sailing. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app!

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