Ryan Finstad was an early crew with ISBJORN, sailing in the Caribbean in early 2016 when just about everything that could have gone wrong did. Ryan stuck with us and even helped build ISBJORN’s new furler on the grass in Nanny Cay between trips.
Lee Cumberland // Podcast Producer, Relief Mate (USA)
Lee and Andy have been friends since 2012 when Lee first started doing deliveries and long before the business started. Since then, Lee has helped out in all aspects of 59º North, but most recently has been dubbed ‘ship’s engineer’ for his work on the big boat ICEBEAR in the Caribbean. Lee sailed on ISBJORN with us in the 2019 Caribbean 600 race, and with his wife Rachel, owns a Tayana 37 called SATORI, on which they sailed to the Panama Canal and back. Lee is also a producer for the On the Wind podcast.
James Austrums // Ship's Photographer (UK)
James is 59 North’s ‘Ship’s Photographer’ and has sailed with us in Scotland in 2017, for two months above the Arctic Circle in summer 2018, and on the passage south from Annapolis-BVI in 2019. James was along to document our adventure to Svalbard - not really a sailor beforehand, James got the full experience on the 1,000-mile passage south from Svalbard to Iceland.
