Best Jon Amtrup Podcasts (2024)

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Jon Amtrup // Sailboat science in the High Arctic 1:09:30

21d ago1:09:30

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Jon Amtrup is an avid environmentalist, and one of the world's top high latitude skippers. He was an obvious choice for GREENPEACE for their arctic research expedition this summer, aboard their recently acquired sailboat WITNESS. She used to be named “Pelagic Australis” and was designed and built by Skip Novak. She is a unique expedition sailboat, …

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Morten Landmark // Owning and Racing a Volvo Ocean 60 1:19:59

9h ago1:19:59

1:19:59

ISBJØRN's rig towers over the other sailboats in her winter marina, but at the far end of the pontoons, there is one mast that makes even her spar look tiny. It belongs to a veteran of ocean racing, built as “Toshiba” for the last ever Whitbread Round the World race in 1997. She’s now under the command of skipper Morten Landmark, who uses it for fa…

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Deb Fish // RORC's First Female Commodore 1:00:39

14h ago1:00:39

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In January 2024, Dr. Deborah Fish became the first woman ever to be elected commodore of the Royal Ocean Racing Club. For 99 years, RORC, as it's better known, has been regarded as a premier organization for offshore racing globally, as well as a leading authority for safety at sea. Its most famous event – the Fastnet Race – Deb has completed in im…

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Kiera and Tripp // Apparent Winds 1:02:29

15d ago1:02:29

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Kiera and Tripp are the couple behind Apparent Winds, a nonprofit they run aboard their sailing research vessel Resilience. As they sail around the world, they collect and share stories of environmental and cultural preservation while conducting marine research. Their journey started in Washington State in 2022, and led them here to Maine via Alask…

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Porter Fox // Climate Change & Sailing with John Kretschmer 1:18:57

10d ago1:18:57

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Porter Fox is a writer, lifelong sailor and author of the new book Category Five: Superstorms & the Warming Oceans that Feed Them. I was referred to Porter by our mutual friend John Kretschmer, who is a major character in the book. Porter is also the son of Able Marine founder and grew up in Maine amongst sailboats and boatyards. Porter and I had a…

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Podcast 155: Sailing Witness to Svalbard 54:31

10d ago54:31

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Jon Amtrup, that's me your podcast host, got the opportunity to sail as skipper on the Greenpeace high latitude sailingboat Witness, the former Pelagic Australis, this autumn. With scientists and campaigners we sailed from Bergen to Svalbard in the same area the Norwegian government desperately want to start deep-sea mining. Than we documented glac…

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Pip Hare // A 2nd Shot at the Vendee Globe 1:11:56

29d ago1:11:56

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Vendee Globe sailor Pip Hare returns to the show for a 3rd time only one month before the start of her second Vendee Globe. In 2020, Pip became only the 8th woman to ever complete the Vendee Globe, and on a shoestring, crowdfunded budget to boot. In the years since, Pip has parlayed that hard work and early success into a second campaign aboard a n…

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Blue, Brady, Mia & Andy // Sea Stories 59:13

1M ago59:13

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Blue & Brady of Cruisers Academy return to the podcast to tell some sea stories! This episode is an adaptation of a video that Mia & I filmed with them a few weeks ago, us on FALKEN, them at their shore base in Tahoe, as we started prepping for our Boat Show workshop coming up in Annapolis. We talk about some of the gnarliest things to happen to us…

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Nigel Calder // The Perfect Cruising Boat 1:21:02

2M ago1:21:02

1:21:02

Nigel Calder returns to the podcast to talk about selling his beloved Malö 46 Nada. Nigel is of course the foremost guru of yacht systems and is at heart and inventor and science buff. He and his wife Terry built their 'dream boat' some 16 years ago and are sad to part ways with her now. We talk about many of the custom design details he's integrat…

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Skip Novak // Wisdom From 50 Years Afloat 1:19:03

2M ago1:19:03

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Skip Novak returns to the podcast to talk about his new book Skip Novak On Sailing: Words of Wisdom from 50 Years Afloat. There's not much Skip hasn't done in his remarkable sailing career, including 4 Whitbread races, a 5th round-the-world race on a maxi catamaran, and of course pioneering expedition sailing in Tierra del Fuego, Cape Horn and Anta…

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Podcast 154: Ella sails to Svalbard 35:28

3M ago35:28

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Ella Hibbert (27) decided to postpone her North Pole circumnavigation and set out on a cruise North to Svalbard to test her boat and her self. We met her in Longyearbyen, Svalbard to catch up. This is her mission in 2025 «She will be sailing from Haslar Marina, in the Solent, up the East coast of England, to a start point on the 66.5°N latitude of …

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Lydia Mullan // Seamanship & the Sinking of Alliance 1:23:42

3M ago1:23:42

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Lydia Mullan is a sailor, journalist, and on board reporter. She is the managing editor at Sail Magazine and was the social media manger behind Cole Brauer’s recent Global Solo Challenge campaign. She was aboard the vessel Alliance in this year’s Newport-Bermuda race when they struck an object and had to abandon ship in the Gulf Stream. In this epi…

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Pam Wall & Peter Grimm // A Lifetime of Memories 1:12:58

3M ago1:12:58

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Friend of the podcast Pam Wall & our own Laura Parent do an ON THE WIND takeover this week to interview sailmaker and America's Cup sailor Peter Grimm! On an impromptu afternoon in Pam's living room, stories started flying and Pam said 'get the mics!' and this entertaining and charming episode was born! Big shout out to Pam & Laura for literally ru…

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Nikki Henderson // 59º North Offshore Racing 48:25

3M ago48:25

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The RORC Caribbean 600 is one of the great offshore ocean races and in February we launched the 59º North offshore racing program with this as our debut event. The Whole Point? To try to open the door of offshore racing wider so that more people like you can get involved. In this episode Nikki has a chat with Alex to reminisce on trials and tribula…

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Andy Schell // 10 Years of 59º North Sailing 1:33:50

3M ago1:33:50

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Andy Schell. We know him, we love him, he's the founder of this very podcast! And of course the co-founder of 59º North Sailing. In this episode, Emma turns the interview table around on Andy to ask him about this past decade of 59º North Sailing. A lot has changed from the early inspirations of starting the business to where Andy sits now, in Swed…

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Julien & Pieter // Aboard BELAFONTE 1:20:15

4M ago1:20:15

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The BELAFONTE is underway on a great, big sailing adventure, and August was lucky enough to meet her and her lovely crew, Julien and Pieter in Bergen. They were on their way North to Svalbard, and the three had many things to talk about. They recently made it to the high Arctic, and are sharing their considerable experiences on @Aboard_Belafonte on…

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Podcast 153: Ian Herbert-Jones sailing adventures 1:13:41

4M ago1:13:41

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Ian Herbert-Jones has, in his own words, done 2,75 round the world sailing adventures. A Clipper race, he almost finished the Golden Globe Race before being rescued, and then a Ocean Globe Race. He is definitely hooked on sailing, and now he is wondering what his next sailing adventure will be. You can read more about him on HJSailing. Keen on sail…

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Ian Herbert-Jones, Part 2 // Ocean Globe Race 1:50:05

4M ago1:50:05

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Since his On The Wind debut on episode 359 two years ago, Ian Herbert-Jones has raced 28,000 miles and rounded Cape Horn twice. In this episode, he tells the story of him joining the Ocean Globe Race last minute at the start in Southampton, and chasing the circumnavigation that escaped him during his Golden Globe Race. -- If you liked this conversa…

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Ian Herbert-Jones, Part 1 // Golden Globe Race 1:59:36

4M ago1:59:36

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Since his On The Wind debut on episode 359 two years ago, Ian Herbert-Jones has raced 28,000 miles and rounded Cape Horn twice! In this episode, he tells the story of his remarkable Golden Globe Race, from the last polishing of his boat at the start in France, to losing her to a storm in the South Atlantic. -- If you liked this conversation you'll …

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Emma Garschagen // From Apprentice to Entrepreneur 1:10:05

4M ago1:10:05

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Our own Emma Garschagen, co-host of ON THE WIND, former ICEBEAR & FALKEN First Mate and now entrepreneur joins me on todays show to talk about her evolution as a sailor since she joined 59º North. Emma started with us as an apprentice, took over as Chief First Mate for Mia when she was pregnant with Axel and has now gone on to start her own busines…

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Matt Rutherford // Shootin' the Shit Onboard MARIE THARPE 1:07:38

4M ago1:07:38

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Friend of the podcast and legendary sailor Matt Rutherford returns to the show to shoot the shit aboard his schooner MARIE THARPE. Matt hosted a small gathering of friends in Annapolis back in April aboard his boat, and we got warmed up by getting out the mics and mixing it up at the salon table down below on a rainy, chilly day. Matt was sipping t…

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Podcast 152: Martin seiler solo kloden rundt 38:28

5M ago38:28

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Martin Larsen har drømt om å seile jorden rundt non-stop alene. Når sommeren er over kaster kan loss for å gjøre drømmen til virkelighet. De mektige bølgene i Sørishavet kaller på både ham og hans stødige 33 foter Odin. Kommer han gjennom alle de 30.000 nautiske milene for seil alene blir han den første nordmannen som har seilt solo uten stop jorde…

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Podcast 151: Sailing for a clean Arctic Ocean 42:43

5M ago42:43

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Gate to the Arctic is a non-profit run på Catharina Frostad and Jon Amtrup, host of this podcast. In June we filled Moondance, a beautiful Koopmans 56 from Moondance Expeditions, with youth, scientists, and storytellers and sailed North from Tromsø. We took samples of air, the ocean, freshwater lakes, snow, and fish on our way. We also collected ne…

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Heather Thomas // MAIDEN Skipper & OGR Winner 1:13:21

6M ago1:13:21

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Skipper Heather Thomas recently won the inaugural Ocean Globe Race aboard the iconic yacht MAIDEN. The crew made history again by becoming the first all-female crew to win a round-the-world race! At 27, Heather was the youngest skipper in this race and one of two female skippers. Emma and Heather talked about leadership, confidence, navigation and …

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Kristoffer Appelquist // 'Över Atlanten' TV Show 1:14:31

6M ago1:14:31

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Comedian Kristoffer Appelquist returns to the podcast to talk about his first trans-Atlantic passage with the Swedish reality TV show 'Över Atlanten.' Now in it's 6th season, the show — which puts celebrities onboard a big Swan with Whitbread skipper Gunnar Kranz for an Atlantic crossing — has become a huge hit. Kristoffer, Mia and I talk about how…

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August Sandberg // ISBJØRN Refit 1:17:29

6M ago1:17:29

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August Sandberg is the owner and skipper of our beloved Swan 48 ISBJØRN, which has sailed over 60,000 miles since the beginning of 59º North. August lives outside Bergen, Norway, where the boat is now based, and recently finished overseeing a second major refit, which we had done at Vindö Marin on the west coast of Sweden on the famed boatbuilding …

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Podcast 150: Lars Leine - Sytalaust liv i Karibia 57:58

7M ago57:58

57:58

I 2022 to Lars Marius Leine en prøvetur over Atlanterhavet med et vennepar. Det ble det podcast av. Året etter kastet han loss med familien på fire for å ta den samme turen i sin 52 foter Talita Kumi. Som en god sunnmøring kaller kan livet i varmen for sytalaust - det betyr at alt er helt perfekt, og en har ingenting å klage over. Nå begynner det å…

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Suzanne Heywood // Wavewalker: Breaking Free 1:06:18

7M ago1:06:18

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Suzanne Heywood was raised on a sailboat. What started as a three year circumnavigation with her family turned into a decade of living aboard, sailing, and struggling to get an education. Suzanne's book, 'Wavewalker,' tells the story of that voyage. In this episode, Emma and Suzanne talk about 'Wavewalker,' Suzanne's relationship to sailing now, an…

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Jon Amtrup // Sailboat science in the High Arctic 1:09:30

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Morten Landmark // Owning and Racing a Volvo Ocean 60 1:19:59

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Deb Fish // RORC's First Female Commodore 1:00:39

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Kiera and Tripp // Apparent Winds 1:02:29

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Porter Fox // Climate Change & Sailing with John Kretschmer 1:18:57

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Podcast 155: Sailing Witness to Svalbard 54:31

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Pip Hare // A 2nd Shot at the Vendee Globe 1:11:56

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Blue, Brady, Mia & Andy // Sea Stories 59:13

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Nigel Calder // The Perfect Cruising Boat 1:21:02

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Skip Novak // Wisdom From 50 Years Afloat 1:19:03

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Podcast 154: Ella sails to Svalbard 35:28

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Lydia Mullan // Seamanship & the Sinking of Alliance 1:23:42

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Pam Wall & Peter Grimm // A Lifetime of Memories 1:12:58

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Nikki Henderson // 59º North Offshore Racing 48:25

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Andy Schell // 10 Years of 59º North Sailing 1:33:50

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Julien & Pieter // Aboard BELAFONTE 1:20:15

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Podcast 153: Ian Herbert-Jones sailing adventures 1:13:41

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Ian Herbert-Jones, Part 2 // Ocean Globe Race 1:50:05

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Ian Herbert-Jones, Part 1 // Golden Globe Race 1:59:36

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Emma Garschagen // From Apprentice to Entrepreneur 1:10:05

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Matt Rutherford // Shootin' the Shit Onboard MARIE THARPE 1:07:38

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Podcast 152: Martin seiler solo kloden rundt 38:28

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Podcast 151: Sailing for a clean Arctic Ocean 42:43

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Heather Thomas // MAIDEN Skipper & OGR Winner 1:13:21

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Kristoffer Appelquist // 'Över Atlanten' TV Show 1:14:31

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August Sandberg // ISBJØRN Refit 1:17:29

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Podcast 150: Lars Leine - Sytalaust liv i Karibia 57:58

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Suzanne Heywood // Wavewalker: Breaking Free 1:06:18

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