EP#199 Conversation with John Glynn, Racing and Yacht Broker
11. oktober 2023 · 1t 24m · 280 visninger · Connecticut
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Jerome Rand interviews John Glynn, a Connecticut yacht broker and longtime racing sailor, covering Glynn's career arc from junior sailing at Larchmont Yacht Club through college racing at Ohio Wesleyan University to working as associate editor at Yacht Racing and Cruising magazine (later Sailing World).11:20 Glynn describes the J/24 class as a bridge from college dinghy sailing to big-boat offshore racing, and recounts covering the SORC — then the premier offshore racing circuit in Florida — while racing alongside the same sailors he was writing about.12:00 The conversation traces the America's Cup's cultural shift after the 1983 loss at Fremantle, crediting Dennis Conner and Gary Jobson as pivotal figures.13:54 Both men discuss the pro-am regattas at Bitter End, where top America's Cup and round-the-world skippers raced alongside guests in match and fleet racing formats.0:53 The conversation turns to solo circumnavigation literature — Knox-Johnston's A World of My Own, Robin Lee Graham's Dove, and Peter Nichols's A Voyage for Madmen — and how those books inspired generations of offshore sailors.30:49 Glynn argues that solo voyagers like Rand inspire the general public more durably than competitive racing does.29:20 The MemoSail watch, the first dedicated sailboat-racing start timer, is mentioned as a period detail from pre-digital racing.6:32
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