Episode 1: John Arndt on Latitude 38 and His Sailing Career
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In this inaugural episode of the Sailing Science Hour, Jim Hancock interviews Latitude 38 editor-in-chief John Arndt (john@latitude38.com). Check out latitude38.com or go to a magazine stand anywhere boats or...
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Show highlights:
4:00 - How John got interested in engineering.
6:33 - From Maine to Venezuela & back
8:38 - the importance of connecting to nature and the planet with old-school sextant sailing
11:00 - how sailing is different from other sports – how "freedom" cuts both ways.
12:30 - Changes in journalism / changes at Latitude
13:00 - the joys of sailing naked and the changing times
23:00 - how people are rediscovering the joy of sailing following the peak of popularity in 1979
26:00 - where people are learning to sail today
28:51 - is sailing a "white guy's sport"?
32:00 - does technology make sailing more or less accessible?
John in his own words:
"I was brought up in a sailing family. My grandfather sailed and my parents sailed doing their honeymoon in 1953 aboard a sailboat around Cape Cod. However, our biggest sailboat was a Rhodes 19 which we still have in Maine today. So, while we are a lifelong sailing family it was purely small boat, weekend, recreational sailing that we did for about 10 weeks every short Maine summer. We had a styrofoam Snark, a 10' Turnabout, my brother Peter and I bought a 420 in high school and it was only then that he and I started to expand our horizons by crewing on local, Maine offshore races and eventually he and I and our friend Max Fletcher took a year off from college to sail from Maine to Venezuela and back. I did some college racing but again in a short Vermont season. My parents always had fun sailing but weren't really racers or cruisers - just weekend small boat sailors but that was enough to plant a seed so that myself and my three brothers became lifelong sailors though my brother Peter and I made it both a career and pastime."
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intro: Going Higher
Outro: All that
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