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Charlie Hewitt

Charlie Hewitt

American painter

May 1, 2026

4:15
Um, how is what you do different to that?
4:18
Yeah.
4:19
So I used to teach these classes in the classroom, and I found it quite difficult and quite demanding of the student because you're always getting them to imagine scenarios that are out on the water, you know? So for example, if you're teaching students about transits, the classic example is you pull the whiteboard pens out of your pocket, and you say, "Imagine these are two features on the land, and you're trying to steer t- you're going to steer towards them, and that means you're, you're, can only be on a straight line with these two points." This is something that's much easier to teach on a boat with a video camera, um, and a-

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25:45
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25:46
Yeah.
25:46
And, and we found that wherever we've been sailing around in the world, uh, over the last fe- last however many years, we were always telling people how beautiful the west coast of Scotland is, so we knew we wanted to return there at some point, and we thought, how are we ever gonna get back there if we get sucked into doing something else? So we, we didn't feel we could start a business there 'cause it's too remote-

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