The Cosbey Chronicles Part II | E70

In Part II of the Cosbey Chronicles, Uncle Coz recounts more boat adventures, working for Raul Gardini – the richest man in Italy – and his Americas Cup team, building the very first carbon composite racing boats, and after a brief stint working in Japan, returning to the US to work on the AmericaOne team. We dive into Marc’s love for music, seeing iconic bands in the 1970s like Zeppelin, Marley, The Who, Van Halen, The Doors, Pink Floyd and, of course, the Grateful Dead. Cosbey’s most memorable show? Midnight Oil in Australia. Tom and Coz discover they were at the same Dead shows together, and Coz opens up about relationships, living simple and free on his terms, riding on the backs of manta rays deep in the Pacific Ocean and almost drowning while bodysurfing The Wedge in Newport Beach.

3:00 – Wrong number call-in to the Core Lord hotline regarding religious exemption.

7:45 – Introducing Part II of the Downieville interview with Marc Cosbey.

13:30 – Working for Raul Gardini, the richest man in Italy on his boat racing team, the first carbon composite Americas Cup boats for racing San Diego in 1991.

23:35 – Got hired onto a Japanese Americas Cup team in 1995 and taught them the craft.

24:25 – Discovering a caretaker’s job at Gold Lake in the Lakes Basin of Plumas County.

27:38 – Going back to an American team out of San Francisco – America One.

31:00 – If you could live in a different country, where would you live? New Zealand.

33:50 – All about music. Seeing live bands all over the world – Zeppelin, Marley, The Who, Van Halen, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead.

37:40 – Calling a drug hotline high on drugs to ask if he should go see Deep Purple and Black Sabbath.

39:58 – What was the most memorable show you’ve ever seen? Midnight Oil in Australia.

42:10 – What’s the difference between Australians and New Zealanders?

43:49 – Second most memorable show he’s ever seen – Carlos Santana at a bull ring in Tijuana.

44:45 – Some Grateful Dead show stories – Coz and Tom discover they were at the same show.

50:00 – Cosbey’s love life, never getting married and not having pets – flying solo and keeping things simple.

52:20 – Trail Whisperer’s story about chasing a loose dog running on the highway.

54:48 – Cosbey thinks time is going faster, the planet is accelerating. How do you slow time down?

57:30 – Almost drowning at The Wedge in Newport Beach in the early 1970s.

1:01:47 – Do you feel like you still need to chase adventure or do you feel content?

1:04:00 – Helping a friend learn to build a boat, then sailing the Sea of Cortez, Baja Mexico.

1:06:40 – Sailing to seamounts in the Pacific, an underwater volcano that comes within 100 feet of the sea surface. A refuge for aquatic life.

1:09:00 – Riding on the back of a massive manta ray.

1:11:25 – If you were an animal, what would you be?