Chris Kobusch & Sophie O'Neill // From Clipper Race to Antarctica & Beyond

Chris Kobusch & Sophie O'Neill // From Clipper Race to Antarctica & Beyond

Chris Kobusch & Sophie O'Neill are longtime friends of 59º North. Chris was in fact one of our full-time skippers for two years on ICEBEAR & FALKEN, and Mia & I recently attended their wedding in England last September. Both professional sailors, they met on the Clipper Race, where Sophie was a last-minute sub-in as First Mate and sailed across the Pacific with Chris. Since then they've led an adventurous life together, working for Skip Novak in Antarctica and buying & refitting their own steel boat OCEAN WANDERER. Like Mia & I, they're now balancing family life with their son Xander, and professional sailing, and recently announced a new project where they'll be building a Wharram 62 catamaran and sailing to the South Pacific. I spoke to them about all of this from their home base on the Isle of Wight just before Christmas.

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Conrad Humphries // Captain Bligh & Rounding Cape Horn

Conrad Humphries // Captain Bligh & Rounding Cape Horn

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Ben Doerr // "Hose it or Lose it!"

Ben Doerr // "Hose it or Lose it!"

Ben Doerr, friend of the pod, of Sail Bainbridge out in Seattle, returns to the show to talk about a near-miss he and his friends had recently in Alaska. On what should have been Day 1 of their latest...

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Andy Schell ARCHIVE // Mentally Preparing to go Offshore (2014)

Andy Schell ARCHIVE // Mentally Preparing to go Offshore (2014)

Most sailors obsess over boat gear and weather routing — but Andy Schell argues the single most important factor in a successful offshore passage is something almost nobody talks about: your mental st...

12 Touko 1h 35min

Matt Rutherford // Around the Arctic (in a Valiant This Time!)

Matt Rutherford // Around the Arctic (in a Valiant This Time!)

When Matt first went around the America's in his Albin Vega in 2011 (becoming the first and only person, still to this day, to do it solo and nonstop), he didn't have a radar despite all the icebergs....

5 Touko 1h 32min

Mia & Andy // 2025 Year-In-Review (Only 3 Months Late!)

Mia & Andy // 2025 Year-In-Review (Only 3 Months Late!)

Mia and Andy sit down in the new Mission Control to review the year that was 2025! And we're only 3 months late in doing it! Each year Mia & Andy like to record a podcast in which we reflect on the pa...

17 Maalis 1h 14min

Ben Soofer // Making a career in sailing

Ben Soofer // Making a career in sailing

Ben Soofer joined 59 North back in 2018, working with media and on the backend of this very podcast. He then started sailing as a mate, including joining August on his first offshore passage on Isbjør...

10 Maalis 1h 2min

Francesca Clapcich // The 1st Italian to Win The Ocean Race

Francesca Clapcich // The 1st Italian to Win The Ocean Race

Francesca Clapcich is an Olympian, a world champion, and in 2023 became the first Italian to win The Ocean Race. She most recently skippered UpWind by MerConcept, an all-female Ocean Fifty trimaran ca...

3 Maalis 1h 10min

Nikki Henderson // Writing, Racing and Life

Nikki Henderson // Writing, Racing and Life

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