The QUARTERDECK Sailing Podcast

Season 3, #10. Andy & Mia reflect on their life-and-business-changing summer in the High Arctic in Svalbard from 2018. -- 59º North's 1st LIVE online session Tuesday April 14, 2020. Join us for a 'shakedown' test of new live software we're testing out in order to host more live events in the coming weeks during the COVID-19 lockdown. Register on 59-north.com/events. -- HOW I THINK ABOUT SAILING is presented by Offshore Passage Opportunities. Visit sailopo.com to learn more about crewing offshore.

Season 3, #9. In the time of the coronavirus, doing ANYTHING on a schedule right now feels rather quaint. Ironically, today's episode is a conversation with cruiser Doug Weibel about how we at 59 North plan to sail on a schedule. One day we'll get back to that! Wash your hands & HOLD FAST! -- Join Andy & Mia and friends in Annapolis this October for a weekend workshop on all things SEAMANSHIP. Signup now at 59-north.com/seamanship. -- HOW I THINK ABOUT SAILING is presented by Offshore Passage Opportunities. Visit sailopo.com to learn more about crewing offshore.

Season 3, #8. New intro to an old recording. Andy & Mia start the show and reflect on what it's like ocean racing in the Caribbean 600. Then we play the audio documentary that Andy put together after ISBJORN's first crack at the race in 2016. We didn't finish, due to rudder problems, but we were hooked on racing! -- Join Andy & Mia and friends in Annapolis this October for a weekend workshop on all things SEAMANSHIP. Signup now at 59-north.com/seamanship. -- HOW I THINK ABOUT SAILING is presented by Offshore Passage Opportunities. Visit sailopo.com to learn more about crewing offshore.

Season 3, #7. Almost exactly five years has passed since we bought ISBJORN, our beloved S&S Swan 48, which remains to this day as the foundation of 59 North. We go back in time today and hear Andy describe the story behind buying the boat and how it all came together. -- Join Andy & Mia and friends in Annapolis this October for a weekend workshop on all things SEAMANSHIP. Signup now at 59-north.com/seamanship. -- HOW I THINK ABOUT SAILING is presented by Offshore Passage Opportunities. Visit sailopo.com to learn more about crewing offshore.

Season 3, #6. Andy & Mia reflect on the 2014 Newport to Bermuda Race, which they competed in a J/37. They discuss what they've learned from ocean RACERS that they've applied to their ocean CRUISING passages since 2014. -- Join us in October 2020 for a weekend workshop on SEAMANSHIP. Limited to 20 people. Sign-up now on 59-north.com/seamanship. HOW I THINK ABOUT SAILING is presented by Offshore Passage Opportunities. Crew offshore or find crew for your boat at sailopo.com.

Season 3, #5. Andy reflects on the refit of ARCTURUS’s engine in Sweden in 2013, when he, Mia & their friend Micah installed a new Beta Marine 16hp diesel. We look back on why we chose the smaller model, why we painted it blue (and not red), how we chose the prop, how we mounted it and what we learned from the experience. -- How I Think About Sailing Season 3 is sponsored by Offshore Passage Opportunities. Want to be delivery crew? NEED delivery crew? Check out sailopo.com.

Season 3, #4. Andy and Mia reflect on their last days on ICEBEAR (with Mia’s nearly-broken ankle). And Andy briefs Brady, Alex and Sean of SV DELOS on what to expect sailing trans-Atlantic from Bermuda to the Azores, a passage we first did in 2012 and again in 2017. -- How I Think About Sailing Season 3 is sponsored by Offshore Passage Opportunities. Want to be delivery crew? NEED delivery crew? Check out sailopo.com.

Season 3, #3. Andy looks back at their successful first Atlantic crossing on ARCTURUS and looks at how the weather routing strategies have changed - or not - over the intervening years, and how Andy’s mental aspect of ocean sailing has evolved. -- How I Think About Sailing Season 3 is sponsored by Offshore Passage Opportunities. Want to be delivery crew? NEED delivery crew? Check out sailopo.com.

Season 3, #2. Andy reads aloud to Mia a dramatic, and at times embarrasing, journal about their failure to cross the Atlantic in ARCTURUS in 2010, and what they did about it. This is the first episode of our ‘Reflections on the Decade’ series. -- How I Think About Sailing Season 3 is sponsored by Offshore Passage Opportunities. Want to be delivery crew? NEED delivery crew? Check out sailopo.com.

Season 3, #1. 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!) -- Sail aboard ICEBEAR or ISBJORN, our Swan 59 & Swan 48, in 2020! Check out all our offshore passages at 59-north.com/2020. HOLD FAST!