Tapio Lehtinen is a lifetime sailor and
keenly in love with the Oceans of the World.

Here is another one of Paul's diving videos:). I have to confess that while I visited him in Panama, I stayed onboard his Windflower working with the books with my laptop... ... See MoreSee Less

In addition to translating and editing my books and being a good and experienced surfer, my friend Paul Trammel is an apt free-diver and spear fisher - he mostly eats fish which he catches himself. Liveaboard for almost ten years, moving between Panama and Bahamas depending on the surf seasons with one summer's stint to Newfounland. ... See MoreSee Less

Three years ago I had the unforgettable priviledge to be invited to join Statsraad Lehmkuhl on her week long passage from Ushuaia to the the west, through the spectacular Beagle Channel where glaciers fall into the fjords into the Pacific, then around Diego Ramirez Islands to round Cape Horn. The weather was more severe than in the picture, we had more wind, less sail, bigger seas and less visibility and no one brave enough to fly a drone. She is a training vessel, we were not passengers, but trainees, divided into watches and running the ship. A life long dream come true of climbing the rig, working the sails, doing the lookouts, taking one's stint at the rudder, and finally at the end of your watch passing out in a hammock. In the calm waters coming back into the Beagle channel I even climbed the Jacob's ladder up to the highest point of the rig:). Thanks again for the invitation, Wollert Hvide, with whom I sailed in the Patagonian waters 43 years ago. And what a coincidence we had last fall when taking Wollert's Skye 52 Fiesta from Oslo down to Orust with our American friend Bob Lux. Coming sailing into the harbor of Smögen, who else took our lines than Jens Joachim Hiorth, the captain of Statsraad Lehmkuhl. Needless to say, an evening of salty stories ensued:). ... See MoreSee Less