Latest Andyschell Podcast Episodes
Henry Mickel & Bayley Richardson // Sailing REVELRY Home to Oz
On the Wind Sailing - April 04, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 497 ratingsHenry Mickle & Bayley Richardson are self-described "Mates from the Land Down Under", cruising around the world in an old Beneteau. These two twenty-something friends made a pact, worked their asses off, saved their money, bought a boat and are living the dream — figuring it out as they go, but ...
Jojo Pickering // From the Sea to the Theatre & Back Again
On the Wind Sailing - March 26, 2024 10:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 497 ratingsJojo Pickering grew up with sailing as a central part of her life, vagabonding on the high seas with her family and sailing from Africa to the UK. As she got older, she spent more time ashore, starting a traveling theatre company with her husband and kids and bouncing around the UK, France and S...
Liz Wardley // A Sailor Smashing Records in the Worlds Toughest Row
On the Wind Sailing - March 19, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 497 ratingsSailor, kitesurfer, and paddler Liz Wardley returns to the show to talk with Emma about her record-breaking row across the Atlantic. She completed the World's Toughest Row at the end of January after 44 days at sea. She beat the previous record by 15 days. Liz has competed many times in The Ocea...
Capt. Jennifer Kaye // Schooner WOODWIND & Trans-Atlantic on FALKEN
On the Wind Sailing - March 12, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 497 ratingsCapt. Jen of Schooner WOODWIND returns to the podcast after having just sailed with Andy aboard FALKEN on the 2,100 mile passage across the Atlantic! Jen and Andy reflect on Jen's first big ocean crossing and what it was like to leave the wintry Chesapeake Bay for tropical Tradewind sailing. The...
Emily Caruso // Pro Sailor & Empathetic Leader
On the Wind Sailing - February 06, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 497 ratingsEmily Caruso has spent 18 years and counting as a professional sailor, though only first learning about the sport in her late 20s. Growing up in the countryside in England, Emily had an epiphany one day during a weekend sailing excursion and hasn't looked back since. Andy & Emily sat down in per...
Jens Joachim Hiorth // Tall Ship Captain
On the Wind Sailing - January 30, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 497 ratingsJens Joachim Hiorth is the Captain of the Statsraad Lehmkuhl, the largest and oldest tall ship in Norway. The ship recently completed a circumnaivation around the great capes. August joined the Captain onboard the ship for a conversation on the particulars of running such a large ship on the hig...
Bill Strassberg // The Viking Route
On the Wind Sailing - January 23, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 497 ratingsBill Strassberg literally wrote the book on the Viking Route, authoring the latest edition of the Cruising Club of America's guide to the far northern route across the Atlantic. Andy first got in touch with Bill when researching FALKEN's Greenland passage last summer and caught up with him late ...
Cosima Franchini // Yacht Captain & Business Owner
On the Wind Sailing - January 16, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 497 ratingsCosima grew up on the Puget Sound where her family nurtured a love of sailing and old classic boats. In college she worked on tall ships in the PNW but eventually she landed on the east coast where she found a community of friends who worked on private classic yachts. She spent her twenties purs...
Matt Steverson // The Duracell Project
On the Wind Sailing - January 09, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 497 ratingsBen Doerr sat down with Matt from The Duracell Project YouTube channel. Matt and his wife Janni are refitting Mike Plant's famous Open 60 "Duracell" into a comfortable cruising boat. Sitting in the cockpit of Duracell outside of Port Townsend, Matt and Ben discuss Matt's cruising and boatbuildin...
Capt. Jan Miles Returns // PRIDE OF BALTIMORE II
On the Wind Sailing - January 02, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 497 ratingsCaptain Jan Miles returns to the podcast! Andy first sat down with Jan onboard Maryland's flagship PRIDE OF BALTIMORE II tallship way back in 2015 for a fascinating interview tracing Jan's career at sea. We return to the Captain's Cabin onboard PRIDE for this second, meandering chat about seaman...
Elliot Rappaport // Reading the Glass
On the Wind Sailing - December 26, 2023 15:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 497 ratingsElliot Rappaport has been a captain of sailing ships for the past three decades. He currently is a faculty member at Maine Maritime Academy, where he lives nearby with his wife and their dog. Elliot also sailed as a captain for many miles with Sea Education Association, an organization that offe...
Mats Grimsæth // Explorer and Photographer
On the Wind Sailing - December 19, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 497 ratingsMats Grimsæth is a professional skipper, photographer and lecturer. He’s the youngest person to ever skipper a boat around the island of Spitsbergen on Svalbard, which is where he first met August. He has a great passion for the sea and for his fellow human beings. Having had a difficult time in...
Wendy Mitman Clarke // SAIL Magazine Editor
On the Wind Sailing - December 12, 2023 11:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 497 ratingsWendy Mitman Clarke is the editor-in-chief at SAIL magazine and a long-time cruiser herself. I work with Wendy regularly as a columnist for SAIL, but had never actually sat down to talk about her own background. I caught up with her at the Annapolis Sailboat Show in October, and from the Captain...
Andy, Mia, Adam & Alex // FALKEN Season 1 Debrief
On the Wind Sailing - December 05, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 497 ratingsLast week Mia, Bosun Adam Browne and Chief Mate Alex Laline and I sat down in the salon of FALKEN to reflect on what's been a busy, stressful and ultimately successful first season on our newly refit Farr 65. We've truly come a long way since one year ago this time, when we were scrambling to ge...
Paul & Sheryl Shard // Distant Shores & the OG YouTubers
On the Wind Sailing - November 07, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 497 ratingsPaul & Sheryl Shard of Distant Shores are truly the OG YouTubers, having filmed and produced videos of their sailing adventures for over 25 years. I met up with them in person at the Annapolis Sailboat Show a few weeks ago to talk about their transition from broadcast TV to YouTube and if that's...
Jake Beattie // Everyday Heroes and the Race to Alaska
On the Wind Sailing - October 31, 2023 03:34 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 497 ratingsIn Jake Beattie’s words, the Race to Alaska "celebrates and illuminates life’s everyday heroes". Jake is one of those people. Aside from creating and organizing the Race to Alaska, he is also the executive director of the Northwest Maritime Center located in Port Townsend, Washington: a non-prof...
Jade & Ben // Sailing the Northwest Passage
On the Wind Sailing - October 24, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 497 ratingsBen and Jade Couturier recently completed the Northwest Passage on their Navy 44 Caprivi. They bought the boat in 2016, looking to make it their traveling home. Ben and Jade took Caprivi through an impressive rebuild while living aboard and working in the Florida Keys. In June 2022, they set sai...
Matt Rutherford // Greenland, Grass & Groundings
On the Wind Sailing - October 20, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 497 ratings#411: If you’ve been around this podcast for awhile, Matt Rutherford won’t be a stranger to you. Famous for being the first person to sail solo & non-stop around the Americas, he’s now the operator/co-director of the non-profit organization, OCEAN RESEARCH PROJECT, and has his own, amazing podca...
Mark Sinclair // Retro Racing around the World
On the Wind Sailing - October 12, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 497 ratingsMark Sinclair has sailed the seas his entire life, both professionally and as a hobby. He served for 20 years in the Royal Australian Navy, commanding three ships and navigating four, at the time when celestial was still the primary means of offshore navigation. He participated in both the 2018 ...
Andy & Mia // The Evolution of 59º North
On the Wind Sailing - October 05, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 497 ratingsAndy & Mia sit down to talk about the past 5-6 years of 59º North and how it's evolved from a "lifestyle" business to an "actual" business, with investors, lots of staff and high stakes! They talk about the rollercoaster of emotions, the stress, the joys and the future (which is exciting—make su...
Evgeniy “Ev” Goussev // Stowaway Escape from the USSR
On the Wind Sailing - September 26, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 497 ratingsEvgeniy “Ev” Goussev was born in the far east of Russia, where he began sailing at the age of five, and was soon competing in a variety of classes while having a grand adventure on the sea with his father and friends. As the Soviet Union began to deteriorate and in-fighting became dangerous, his...
Peter Bruce // What Kind of Sailor Authors 'Heavy Weather Sailing'
On the Wind Sailing - September 19, 2023 10:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 497 ratingsPeter Bruce is both a sailor and a writer of sailing. He most famously wrote the last four editions of the world-famous book HEAVY WEATHER SAILING having taken over from the original author Adlard Coles. A life-time of achievements on the water qualify him to write with such esteemed authority. ...
Will Sofrin // The Real-Life 'Master & Commander' Voyage
On the Wind Sailing - September 12, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 497 ratingsWill Sofrin is among other things a sailor, shipwright and author of the new book ALL HANDS ON DECK. The story is a maritime adventure memoir that follows a crew of misfits hired to sail an eighteenth-century warship replica 6,000 nautical miles from New England to Hollywood where the ship woul...
James Frederick // Solo to New Zealand & Sailing in Greenland
On the Wind Sailing - September 05, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 497 ratingsJames Frederick, aka 'James the Sailor Man' returns to the podcast four years after I first interviewed him. Back then, James was still prepping his Alberg 30 TRITEIA in LA...now, the boat is in New Zealand after James sailed her over 9,000 miles, solo, with many adventures along the way. We tal...
Nikki Henderson // Winning The Race To Alaska
On the Wind Sailing - July 11, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 497 ratingsNikki Henderson is no stranger to the 59N family. She’s a skipper, a podcaster, master of the Quarterdeck and a dear friend in the community. But when she signs off from these watches, she doesn’t quit. You likely know that she’s been on heaps of other seafaring adventures, including skippering ...
How to be a Sailing Parent w/ Andy, August and Mia
On the Wind Sailing - July 04, 2023 13:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 497 ratingsNavigating the challenges of parenthood whilst also maintaining an atypical lifestyle — be that of a sailor, adventurer, or anything that doesn’t involve a 9-5 desk job — has been a consistent theme of this podcast. Now the tables have turned. Andy, Mia and August are raising their two boys whil...
Pam Wall // Reminiscing on a Life at Sea
On the Wind Sailing - June 27, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 497 ratingsPam Wall returns to the podcast, live from her living room in Ft. Lauderdale. Andy sat down to talk to Pam about the treasure trove of memories in her house, how she stays happy and inspirational despite the tragedy of losing her husband and daughter too soon, the relationship she has with her s...
Celeste Pomerantz // To Svalbard in Search of Un-skied Couloirs
On the Wind Sailing - June 22, 2023 15:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 497 ratingsCeleste Pomerantz wasn't a sailor until she signed up for a sail & ski trip out of Tromsø, Norway, that was headed north in search of un-skied peaks in Svalbard. The boat was called SOFIE, and was owned and skippered by friend of 59º North, Mats Grimsaeth. I discovered Celeste in the ski film Wa...
Terje Andre Pedersen // Sailing in the Wake of Amundsen
On the Wind Sailing - June 13, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 497 ratingsNorwegian explorer Roald Amundsen was the first to reach the South Pole and the North Pole, but his greatest achievement may have been leading the first successful crossing of the Northwest Passage in 1906. Terje Andre Pedersen grew up inspired by Amundsen's great stories of exploration. He has ...
Ben Doerr & Andy Schell // Motorboatin'
On the Wind Sailing - June 06, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 497 ratingsBen Doerr of Sail Bainbridge returns to talk to Andy about motorboatin'! Andy got inspired to call Ben when he saw an ad for a 65-foot converted Swedish Navy ship for sale in Stockholm as a place to live on the water. Andy though, 'hmm, who do I know that did exactly this, and with a family to b...
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