Christian Lobel, Circumnavigating Newfoundland
Christian Lobel is an RYA Yachtmaster Instructor and captain of Saga, a Swan 47 on which he sails offshore, often with paying crew. I met Chris in Newfoundland in a fjord on the south coast in 2022. L...
6 Apr 59min
Alison Gieschen, Circumnavigating on a Taswell 43
Alison Gieschen wasin Nuku HIva when I spoke to her, sailing a Taswell 43 on a circumnavigation with her husband. She is also the author of 7 books, including Riding the Waves of Reality I and II. We ...
30 Mar 1h 10min
Guy deBoer, GGR Tactics
Guy deBoer is preparing for the Golden Globe Race, which starts in September, and will try to be the first American to win a solo nonstop circumnavigation race. He was in the 2022 GGR, but went agroun...
23 Mar 59min
Mara Lovenskiold Kveseth, GGR 2026 Entrant
Mara is a Norwegian sailor entered in the 2026 Golden Globe Race. She was doing her 4000nm qualifier for the GGR, sailing from Morocco to St Martin in the Caribbean in her 2001 Saltram Saga 36. We ta...
16 Mar 1h 11min
Dudley Dix, Designing Sailboats Since the 1970's
Dudley Dix has been designing sailboats - monohulls, catamarans, and trimarans - since the 1970's and is still at it. His designs incorporate wood, fiberglass, steel, or aluminum, and he is the develo...
9 Mar 1h 7min
Africa! Tim Good and Emmie van Biervliet, Sailing in Senegal and The Gambia
Tim and Emmie sail a 1996 Seastream 43 and are at the beginning of a circumnavigation starting in England. They were in Cape Verde when I interviewed them and had recently been to Senegal and The Gamb...
2 Mar 1h 36min
Amy and MJ of Motherload Sailing, moving onto a Catamaran
Amy Cobb and MJ Sizemore of Motherload Sailing are back in Bocas del Toro after sailing their Bavaria 50 back to Florida to sell. They replaced her with a Lagoon 410 catamaran, on which they live with...
23 Feb 1h 22min
Cruising with Gretchen and Tim of GnT Sailing
Gretchen and Tim were in the same anchorage as me when I met them, and John Kretschmer recommended them as guests. They sail a Catalina 42 with an added staysail and have a YouTube channel called GnT ...
16 Feb 1h 26min
