Talk - Three Seasons in South Georgia

Join sailor and musician Nick Atkinson as he recounts an unlikely journey that began at a bakery on Ponsonby Road and wound up with our hero living on the heavily glaciated island of South Georgia with Tim and Pauline Carr. He didn't travel in a straight line however. Grand classic yacht regattas in Scotland, Sardinia, and Antigua formed stepping stones to eventually landing the gig at the museum in Grytviken, the site of an old whaling station and Shackleton's grave. Hear accounts of epic ocean passages aboard the three masted 1902 schooner Shenandoah as well as tales from three incredible seasons racing the 95' LOD 1911 Fife gaff cutter Mariquita, leavened with stints on canting keel maxis and the odd bicycle. He also never traveled without his saxophone, a tradition he continues to this day.