Episode #191: Joshua Wheeler on DIY-ing as The Resourceful Sailor

In this episode we chat with Joshua (Josh) Wheeler aka The Resourceful Sailor who’s series of DIY sailing repairs, fixes, modifications, and hacks regularly feature in ‘Lectronic Latitude. Josh is a drummer-turned-sailor who’s been sharing his DIY tips and sailing stories from the cabin of Sampaguita, his 1985 Pacific Seacraft Flicka 20, with the Latitude 38 audience since 2019.

Hear why sailing is as engaging as music, how to DIY your boat projects, his most memorable DIY repairs and solutions, what to know before sailing the world in a small boat, and whether he keeps his drum set on his boat.

Here’s a sample of what you’ll hear in this episode:

• Josh’s longest voyage
• What does Sampaguita mean?
• What made Josh transition from musician to sailor?
• Josh’s most satisfying repair
• His biggest fear on the water

Learn more about Joshua at sailingwithjosh.com, on youtube.com/@sailingwithjosh, and at Latitude38.com. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and your other favorite podcast spots — follow and leave a 5-star review if you’re feeling the Good Jibes!

Check out the episode and show notes below for much more detail.

• Joshua Wheeler on DIY-ing as The Resourceful Sailort
  • [0:21] Welcome to Good Jibes with Latitude 38
  • [0:45] Welcome Ahoy Joshua Wheeler!
  • [1:48] What brought the transition from musician to sailor?
  • [2:49] Had Joshua sailed before Seattle?
  • [4:26] How did Joshua buy his first boat?
  • [6:18] How long is Sampaguita (Josh’s current boat)?
  • [9:28] What does Sampaguita mean?
  • [10:03] Are you thinking of sailing to Mexico or across the Pacific? Latitude 38 has a resource page called “Heading South” & the “First Timer’s Guide” to help you prepare 
  • [10:52] Why did Josh do all the repairs himself instead of outsourcing?
  • [12:41] Once he started, was it a big learning curve?
  • [13:52] Where does Joshua get his information? And why did he feel compelled to share on his blog?
  • [15:31] Joshua’s most satisfying repair
  • [17:44] Building confidence on new journeys
  • [18:30] Has there ever been a problem Joshua couldn’t solve?
  • [20:29] How has sailing been on a small boat?
  • [21:31] What would Joshua say to someone who wants to go cruising?
  • [22:26] Is there a drum kit on Sampaguita?
  • [22:50] Has Sampaguita been sold?
  • [23:41] Check out our classy classifieds at Latitude38.com 
  • Short Tacks
  • [24:22] Joshua’s favorite sailboat or model
  • [24:42] What is his longest voyage?
  • [25:15] What would Joshua say to someone with a power boat to encourage them to get a sail boat instead?
  • [25:36] What’s the most important safety device to have on board?
  • [25:58] His biggest fear on the water?
  • [26:42] His favorite sailing book — Trekka Round the World
  • [28:09] Joshua’s advice for new sailors
  • [28:15] How did it feel to get in front of others to tell his sailing experience?
  • Connect with Josh and follow his story!
  • [29:55] Make sure to follow Good Jibes with Latitude 38 on your favorite podcast spot and leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts
  • Check out the April 2025 issue of Latitude 38 Sailing Magazine
  • Theme Song: “Pineapple Dream” by Solxis

Transcript:

Note: this transcript is not 100% accurate.

00:03

I knew what it was like to be on the ocean, but I was getting a new experience on such a small boat.

00:14

Ahoy, hi everyone. And welcome to another episode of Good Jibes, the sailing podcast brought to you by Latitude 38, the magazine for West Coast sailors since 1977. Today, we’re catching up with our favorite sailing MacGyver, Joshua Wheeler AKA The Resourceful Sailor. Josh has been sharing his brand of do it yourself sailing repairs, fixes, modifications and hacks.

00:39

with our latitude audience since I think it’s 2019, is that correct? Sounds about right, From a career in music, specifically as a drummer,  and from being a teacher, Josh moved his life from New York City to Seattle, where he transitioned his life to that of a sailor. Josh has completed multiple expeditions throughout the Pacific Northwest, including a solo circumnavigation of Vancouver Island. Most recently, he voyaged south along the West Coast to Baja Mexico.

01:09

and then followed the trade winds to the Marquesas  and returned via Hawaii. Sort of, he writes on his blog. He recently shared the tales of these experiences with audiences at the Blue Water Cruising Association in Vancouver  and at the Port Townsend Sailing Association.

01:29

Josh, welcome to the show. Welcome to Good Jibes. It’s great to have you on board today.  And  we would love to hear a lot about your  sailing adventures, but first we’d like to know a little bit more about your background. So my understanding is you grew up in central New York and somehow ended up on the West coast being a sailor. Can you tell us about the journey and what brought about the change from musician to sailor? So yeah, somewhere…

01:57

around 2007,  I was in New York playing music  and was kind of burning out  and an opportunity, a friend of mine  had suggested that I could  house it in Seattle  for their cat for three weeks in July. So I was like, yes, let’s do that.  And I had never been to Seattle.  So I took her up on that.  And of course, if you’ve ever been to Seattle in July, it’s  basically paradise.

02:25

So that had a very positive  impression on me.  And I was very impressed with how many boats were around.  so boating was fairly new to me,  but it certainly caught my attention. And that was the beginning of a transition that then took probably another year and half. So. Had you sailed at all before you came to Seattle? A little bit.  I had a canoe that had a sailing rig.

02:52

Uh, and I had sailed on a couple other friends boat,  a couple other, you know, short, you know, afternoon kind of sales here and there. Uh, so not so much. No. Can you tell us, so how did you actually get, did you just decide one day I’m going to go sailing  or you  bumped into someone or how did it come about? The main inspiration when I was in New York, I had a friend, uh, who used to do.

03:19

summer sailing expeditions  in  central New York. And he had bought a, I think it’s a 12 foot or 13 foot  Ode Sprite.  And had decided that he was gonna sail that from Albany down the Hudson River and around  Long Island.  And I was like, hey, can I be part of that for some of the time? know, cause I knew it was gonna take him a couple of months and I couldn’t do that.

03:44

And he’s like, sure, you know, I can get a couple weeks off. So I went from Socrates, which is about halfway down the Hudson and went around tip of Manhattan and out into Long Island Sound. And so we would just beach the boat and kind of gorilla camp along the way. And I was like, this is kind of cool. This is exciting. This is a it was the first thing I had ever discovered that was a

04:12

me is engaging his music, right? You know, it’s, there’s always things going on. There’s always something that was always very new. So, um, that was kind of the main thing that I got caught, the bug got caught with. So. then when you went to Seattle, you picked up that bug and you, did you buy your own boat right away? Or can you tell us the story of how you came to own San Brigita? So, no, I didn’t buy a boat right away. I actually had brought the canoe, I had a sailing canoe. I brought that out.

04:40

and was using that around the Sound.  I did a trip around,  I left from Shull Shoal and went around, Fowlwether Bluff and Down Hood Canal and then portaged over into the South Sound and back up. And it was doing a lot of  local paddling here. And after a couple years,  I saved some money up  and kind of stumbled across the Columbia 26 that was  very economical. So that was my very first boat and that was the starter boat.

05:09

And that’s kind of what I learned to sail on the most.  And after a few years of that, I outgrew that. And that’s when I was like, okay, now I need a boat that can do, you know, do expeditions like I want to.  And so I could learn how to learn how to sail.  So, so yeah, so in 2013, that’s when I got Sample Vita.  So I guess we could say that your plan at that point was to sail beyond where you’d been before.

05:39

The Columbia 26 had its, you know, seaworthy issues, right? You couldn’t take it very far, you know, and you had to be pretty careful with the boat. So, St. Brigida, right, was kind of near towards, okay, so what’s the next step? I’m not really sure what the next step is, right? When you’re starting out, you have lots of  romantic ideas about what you want to do, but you really have no idea what you’re doing.  You know, until you start doing it and you’re like, oh, this is what it’s really like, you know? So, yeah, so, but I felt like St. Brigida was going to be a boat that I would be able to do.

06:08

quite a bit width. So easy to single hand and a pretty seaworthy boat. How long is she? 20 on deck, so it’s a flick of 20, but 24 overall. There’s a bow spread and a transom hung rudder. Makes it a little longer. In Latitude 38 and mostly on electronic, we’ve been sharing stories about your DIY projects. When you bought Sambiquita, did you have any idea of

06:37

First of all, how much work you would need to do on the boat and how to do it.  San Brigida was in pretty good shape when I bought her. So that was, that was kind of intentional. I mean, I got, I guess I got a little lucky maybe, you know, I kind of stumbled across  a boat that was local. I would have called it fairly lightly used. So I didn’t have to put any immediate work into it right away, which was good because I really didn’t know what I was doing. Right. And I was living on the boat.

07:06

So I just had to, you know, kind of  it’s a boat. So things come up  all the time, right? You know, something you overlooked or something you discovered along the way. Right. So that’s just kind of how boats are.  So yeah, so I was able to  get a decent boat that didn’t need a lot and then kind of learn as I went. So it wasn’t kind of  a  rush in like, oh my God, deep dive right away. So that was, I was pretty appreciative of that. So.

07:35

And did you intentionally choose the Pacific Sea Craft or was it just one that popped up that you thought, oh yeah, this will work? It was on the short list. I didn’t go out specifically to buy a Flickr. I do like the Pacific Sea Craft boats. They just kind of have a nice style and they kind of speak to me. So I was looking at some O’Rions, which are 27. I looked at Dana 24s. I looked at some 31s at the time.

08:04

I felt like that was too much boat for me. So, so it was on the short list and I had in my mind, I had sailed on one that I had looked at that was for sale. And after that, I had decided, well, if I could find one that didn’t have a head, an enclosed head and didn’t have the inboard engine, then it would be a consideration. And that was Sampaguita. She did not have an inboard engine and did not have the head. The head takes up a lot of space.

08:33

inside the cabin, a very small cabin. So that was kind of why that and then  the non inboard engine. Once again, you have space where the engine was.  So it’s a lot of storage. And I was kind of scared of diesel engines too. I’ve never owned a diesel engine in my life, right? You so I was like,  oh, you know, an outboard seems like more my speed, even though I didn’t have a lot of experience with them either. So when Sampeguita came up, just the price was right. It  fit my criteria.  The timing was right. So I just did it.

09:02

So Samper Gita came with an outboard engine or you had to purchase one. Yeah. She had an upward engine.  And I just like to mention for our listeners that the space that was  left vacant due to the lack of diesel engine in one of our recent episodes, we shared Josh’s story of the circus bike, which he neatly folded up and fitted into that empty engine compartment. I thought that was quite good.  Yep.  So Josh, can you tell us what does Samper Gita mean?

09:31

So, Sanpa Gita  came with the boat, or I inherited the boat with that name.  Sanpa Gita is the national flower of the Philippines  to what you and I know as Jasmine,  Arabian Jasmine in particular.  Interesting. I did not know that. And obviously, name worked for you. You didn’t change it.  Yeah, I’m easy going like that. Latitude 338 here.

10:00

Are you thinking of sailing to Mexico or all the way across the Pacific or maybe even further? We just heard from Joanna and Cliff saying, my husband and I subscribe to Latitude 38 and enjoy the Good Jibes podcast regularly. They went on to say they’re headed to Mexico in the fall and will continue across the Pacific to Australia. However, they’re looking to simplify all the choices they need to make to prepare. Of course, there’s tons of resources out there, but Latitude 38 does have a page in our website called Heading South.

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And we also have Lata238’s First Timers Guide to Mexico  available to read online on the Heading South page  or a printed copy  that is available to purchase in our online store. There’s a lot to know, but lata238.com is a good place to start.

10:48

How is it that you came to do all the work on the boat yourself rather than outsourcing it to  anybody who could do the things that you do? mean, you’ve done added gas tanks, you’ve done re-rigging, you’ve done sail repairs, you’ve made your own lee. Well, instead of a lee cloth, you made a lee net. Tell us kind of how that happened or why.  I feel a lot of that was necessity  and interest. know,  I was interested in figuring out how to use.

11:18

the boat and how to work on the boat.  So I felt like if you’re, if I were hiring somebody else, I wouldn’t be learning as much. There’s that  labor is the big cost, right? Materials are still fairly manageable, but it’s labor that costs quite a bit. So even though it might take me two or three times longer, if I had the time to do it, then I’m not a  financial incentive there.

11:44

So yes, and I just find it interesting, you know, it’s all kind of a part of the messing around with boats and when when you want to fix something you fix it The way you think it should be done as opposed to hoping it gets done Right by someone else and I’ve done repairs that I’ve redone right away and like no That’s that’s not gonna be good enough, right?  And I and I if I if I put it together like that, I’ll know it and it’ll bother

12:10

And so all those decisions are made. Those are my decisions to make. That’s kind of the driving force behind it.  just, you know, interest me, it’s sustainability, you know, for the same reason that I bought a small boat, know, slip fees are less, everything is less.  So it allowed me to actually use the boat.  was going to ask, were there any repairs that did not work out? So you answered that one.  does make sense.  Is that everything worked? No.

12:39

I mean, you said at the start, it wasn’t a  deep dive because the boat was working well, but once you started, was it quite a big learning curve for you overall?  Sure. Yes. You know,  I make  jokes to myself about, you know, sealants. used to look, you know, every time you needed to put in a sealant or adhesive down, you get on and you’d look, you know, the internet and go through and…

13:05

Oh, there’s this option and this option. What’s the best option for what I want, you know, and learning. And every time a new project would come up, I’d have to relearn those things, you know, and after years eventually like, oh, this is, you know, I’m going to use a boat seal for this or butyl tape for this or silicone for this or 4,200 for this. You know, I mean, you know that, but at first you just constantly always reminding yourself, I’m

13:32

How do I mix that epoxy? Or what kind of filler should I use?  So yeah, there’s a quite, there is still is a learning curve, right? Because most of the things that I do projects is necessary, right?  And if it’s not broke, I don’t break it.  So  the things I’ve learned are the things that I’ve had to learn. Where do you get most of your information? Is it just hit and miss  or do you research projects before you start? And if so, how and where do you do that?

14:01

Oh, I research a lot. Yes. The internet is a more modern tool for that. University of YouTube. You know, I made a boat yard. So ask three people and get five different answers. So, you you ask around and figure it out until you feel confident enough to move forward with the project.  what prompted you to share this information with readers  on your blog, which we also now share on Latitude? I felt like I was coming up with

14:30

creative and interesting fixes for things that didn’t seem standard. And so I thought that seemed  kind of a novel idea or interesting and maybe other people would find that interesting as well.  And so that’s kind of part of the inspiration. I’ve always my entire life done these sorts of things. I grew up on a small farm and if you needed something, you went to the barn and you found things to make that thing that you needed.

14:59

And so a boat is similar in that way. I just kind of thought it was a little bit of a new view on some of the standard repairs. Can you tell us what would you consider to be your most memorable DIY repair or solution that something that you had to work really hard for but gave you the greatest sense of satisfaction at the end?

15:28

Oh, gee, that’s a tough one. There are many to choose from. I enjoyed the things I did for putting the rig back together. That was pretty satisfying. know, the sailing rig is a, you know, it’s an important part of the boat and making the boat go as well as a big, it’s a big endemper. It’s not like, oh, I want to put on this piece of hardware. You’re putting on this, you know, very important aspect of the sailing boat.

15:57

Uh, if something goes wrong, then that’s, you know, it’s,  it’s a big deal. So I feel like I think the doing the rig and, know, and with that, there were several different versions of that, but I think those are the most satisfying parts of it. Several different versions, as in you had to do it or redo it, or you just did different aspects of it at different times.  Um, well, there was taking the mass down,  right? There was putting the mass up, right? We did that, uh, using the gym pole, the boom is a gym pole.

16:27

There were  some manufacturing  bits that had to be done,  some spreader tips. a triangle plate that had to be adjusted in a little space you put in after the fact that you realized, oh,  the rig is up. The alignment there isn’t good, so fixing the alignment on that. There was the bow platform and bow sprit that  had to be refurbished and rebuilt, all those aspects altogether.

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It seemed like I was making little adjustments here and there as I went. In the end, you’re like, it works. Josh, you took Sampeguita on your voyage around when you did the solo circumnavigation of Vancouver Island. That was on Sampeguita? Yes. I’ve actually done that twice on Sampeguita. I did it back in 2018 and then I did it as a shakedown cruise for the longer Pacific voyage.

17:24

Right. And at that point, presumably all these little fixes and repairs and  solutions that you worked on, you had the opportunity to put them to their full test. How did that go? I think it went surprisingly well, actually.  know, some of them you’re not really, you know, it’s like you feel confident about it, right? But it’s you doing it yourself, right? There’s no one to, there’s no one to blame if something goes wrong. But I was actually pretty impressed with

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many of,  most all of  the things I had to take care of, as well as it was good practice. When I was away, I had a fastener that was lost  on  the wind vane  in the middle of the trade winds. And I had to come up with a fix for that, because I did not have the right fastener. And I kind of look at that as like, oh,  it’s a culmination.  You’ve been practicing, figuring out how to fix things  in alternative fashions. And  here you are, you don’t have a choice now.

18:23

So there are times when you maybe have a choice, but there are also times when you don’t.  Have you ever come up across  or against a problem that you cannot find a solution for? No, because  if it’s beyond me, I’m not capable of everything.  And I try to understand my limitations.  So sometimes there’s a situation where, oh, I don’t have the right tools to do this, or I do not quite have the right expertise to do this.

18:52

So I’ll ask a professional to do that.  I think, know, an example, if we go back to the rig, I ran  internal halyards. So  normally  the flicker just has the, you know, the one main and the one,  the one jib halyard. However, if you run them internally, you can double those.  Okay. So I have two jib and  two main halyards.  I had the riggers put those holes in the mast, right? In order to run those  halyards internally.  You can’t mess that up.

19:22

Right. There’s no do-overs on that. Right. So there’s certain certain aspects like that where I was like, okay, no, let somebody else do this who has more experience because a lot of times you’re learning as you go. Right. And we all know that when we’re done with the project, we’re like, now that I know all that, I could do that project even better,  but I won’t because it’s done.  presumably you’ve kept notes of all these things along the way.  Maybe that’s what your blog is for. A lot of the writing comes afterwards. You know, I’ll be like,  oh,

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That’s kind an interesting idea that I just did there because  in the project,  my concern isn’t writing about it. My concern is doing it. And I’ll say, right, it’ll come up and I’ll be like, oh, well, that was, that idea is interesting and it worked. Right. I like to know that an idea is going to work before I write about it.

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So I could say, so you’re you’re not later on, you’re like, oh, I talked about this thing and how I built this thing and then it didn’t work or failed or it broke over time. And I haven’t done anybody any favors in that fashion. So coming back to Samper Gator a little, you sailed her twice around the Vancouver islands and then over to the Mercasus. Actually, well, first you had to go down to Mexico, then across to the Mercasus. How did you find?

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doing that on the Flickr, given size, think is the, mean, people have done it in, what is it, the Alban Vega, I think, went around the world. So how was it for you? It has its ups and downs, right? But that’s just life. It’s a small boat, right? So it’s very lively. And I had never done a voyage like that in that small of a boat. I had done some ocean crossings with

21:09

in bigger boats like 50 foot and that size. I knew what it was like to be on the ocean,  but I was getting a new experience on  such a small boat. It was very wet  and very lively.  You were hanging on  all the time.  That’s probably beyond me, I’m going to be honest.

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What would you say to somebody who wants to do what you’ve done? They want to buy a boat, they want to fix it up themselves and go cruising. How would you encourage or perhaps discourage them in their venture?  I wouldn’t discourage them.  I guess I would encourage them just because I think it’s a great experience that  will change your life. I guess one of the things I would say is if you’ve never been on an ocean,

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maybe take a trip on an ocean on somebody else’s boat.  I feel like that’s a good, know, to get familiar with it.  Cause if you’re kind of an inland sailor,  which, you know, in the  Pacific Northwest, we have a lot of that.  You really don’t know what you’re in for yet.  Maybe that’s a little different in San Francisco where people go out on the ocean more. So. So that’s encouragement from you. Good to know. Do  you have a drum kit aboard San Pageta?

22:29

I sure don’t.  No,  I have gotten rid of all my percussion equipment. Not a lot of room on a small boat for that sort of gear. I heard a rumor that you are actually  either are going to already have sold Sampeguita. What does that mean?  Well, yes, the answer is I have recently sold Sampeguita. And what does that mean? I’m not sure quite what’s next yet.

22:58

I have a couple of book ideas that I’d like to follow up on while I still have all this information in my head. That’s kind of where we’re at. I have in an unserious manner been looking at boats, something from the 24 to 31 foot range is what I’m thinking. Something a little bit more size. I think I did learn that one can sail a 20 foot boat across the ocean, but I also learned maybe I would like a little bit more room if I were to ever do it again.

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Well, I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. Hopefully you take us along with you on that journey.

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Pick up a magazine at a local marine business  or visit our classy classified pages at latitude 38.com to find boats, gear, job opportunities and more.  Then tell us your next sailing story. We have some lightning round questions for you, Josh. This is just to kind of get you thinking quick  and see what’s happening. All right. What would be your favorite sailboat or model? Now I really like the Pacific Seacraft 31.

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Does it have a name? Like you got the Flickr and the Orion. What name is the 31? It’s just the Pacific Seacraft 31. What’s your longest voyage ever, whether on your boat or someone else’s? The Pacific voyage with the San Pageta is the longest one. I went from Marquesas to Port Townsend nonstop. That’s why in my bio I said sort of through Hawaii. I didn’t actually stop in Hawaii, but I went through the chain.

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And that was 59 and a half days. So that was the longest passage I’ve ever done. On a 20 foot boat. Nice work. What would you say to somebody who has a power boat to encourage them to buy a sailboat instead? There’s another way to spend money that on fuel. could spend what’s that saying? A sailboat is the most expensive way to get anywhere for free. Right. So true, true.

25:32

OK, besides a life jacket, what do you think  is the single most important safety device to have aboard? That’s a tough question.  I’m going to say a tether, because a single hand mostly,  and to get separated from the boat, is pretty much the end of it.  Yeah, yeah.  I would agree with you on that one.  Your biggest fear on the water when you’re out there? Probably other boaters.

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As in crashing into you?  Yes, an unpredictability.  Yes. Yep.  Even if it’s like if you’re on the ocean, you know, if you’ve got a freighter, right?  You know they’re coming,  but those are your big concerns. Right. That it’s either hitting another boat  or  hitting something else that’s stronger than Sampeguita.  Oh yeah. And there’s probably a lot of things that are stronger than Sampeguita. Does Sampeguita have radar at all or AIS?

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No radar and  we received AIS, but we did not transmit. Right. Okay.  Your favorite sailing book or book themed on sailing that you think everyone should read? Trek Around the World  is definitely a good one.  It at John Goosewell. That was an inspiring book for me. And your favorite sailing movie? You know, one I really like, which  you have to really search for is called Man Ray at Sea.

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I think in the wake of a dream, it’s  a film about  Roger Manry sailing a 13 and a half foot boat across the Atlantic Ocean.  I think he did that in the 60s or 70s. And there’s  kind of a fan film about it.  And it’s very interesting. So Manry at Sea. do you spell Manry? that M-A-N-R-Y? Correct. Yep. Manry at Sea. And that was a book as well, you’re saying?

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Yes. Well, the book he wrote,  the film is kind of a fan film after the fact, but the book that he wrote and that’s called Tinkerbell. So Robert, not Roger Manry, it’s Robert Manry. What do you think is the biggest mistake a rookie sailor could make when they want to go, basically go on an adventure and  get their own boat and go sailing like you did? Being too soon to go. And I guess you could counter that against not going soon enough,  but to gain your knowledge.

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before you take this romantic idea. Do you want to quickly tell us a little bit about how was it for you to stand up in front of audiences and talk about your experiences with all these sailors who you can look at and say, oh, they’ve been here before and here I am telling them about my experience. How did you find that? Oh, you know, it’s both awesome and terrifying. Yes. You you look out and you know people in the audience who’ve

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sailed much more and much farther and  much longer than you ever have. And you’re getting up there talking about what it is that you’ve done.  the interesting thing is they’re there to see you and hear about your story. So I’ve done these sorts of  kind of presentations before, so it wasn’t completely new to get up and do that.  And you know, I’m a single-headed sailor, right? So I’m very good at having one-sided conversations about myself, which is exactly what a presentation is.

28:52

Well, that’s a good way to look at it. That’s very good. So Josh, why don’t you learn more about Josh Wheeler and the resourceful sailor?  Well, I have a blog  and that is www.sailingwithjosh.com.  And I have a YouTube channel, is also called Sailing with Josh. Great. And  people can also find some of your stories  on Latitude 38.

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So Josh, I’d like to say thank you.  Really enjoyed having this time with you today  and appreciate learning more about your sailing journey and hearing the background. These are questions that I’ve had for a long time  and I do love writing your stories. It’s a lot of fun to see what you’ve been up to recently and I hope that continues. In the meantime, we do have some stories that we have not yet published.  even though Sampaguita is now in somebody else’s care,  we still have some good tips on things that you can do on your own boat.

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So thank you Josh, really appreciate that.  Folks, if you liked this podcast, please make sure you subscribe and that way you can keep up with everything else and every other guest we have aboard.  And don’t forget to give us a five star rating because that helps us.  And remember to follow Latitude 38 on social media, whichever channels you use.  And  thanks for listening and thank you to Joshua Wheeler, The Resourceful Sailor. Have a great day!