{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Travel Grit","title":"Sven Yrvind: Jail to Sail - Birth of a Sailing Legend","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/d026ef30\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4774,"description":"Sven Yrvind was beaten by his teachers, locked up for desertion and learned the value of books from a psychopath. Then he built a boat in his mother's basement and sailed into legend. In this Travel Grit episode, the legendary Swedish sailor and boat builder talks about crossing the Atlantic in his self-built twenty-foot Bris, teaching navigation to islanders on Tristan da Cunha, rounding Cape Horn solo in winter, and why at eighty-six he's still building boats and planning his next ocean passage.[Episode description goes here]Guest: [Sven Yrvind — Swedish sailor, boat builder, and writer who has spent his life crossing oceans solo in tiny boats of his own construction and design.Links:Yrvind.comYouTube Sven YrvindPeople: For more stories of long riders, sailors, ramblers, adventurers, and dreamers finding their way, visit TravelGrit.com.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/xil3q6Cb-WFO2cXj-kXONGoDPaBdY8pNtX2qW3YsQtI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yYmFj/ZWY3NTE5Yzc4NmVl/MmVmZDdiMDIzYTA1/NzUwMS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}