Lin Pardey, Passages: Cape Horn and Beyond
Lin Pardey is a living legend best known for sailing long offshore passages in small traditional boats witout engines or electronics. Lin and her late husband Larry have sailed over 200,000nm, have ci...
13 Jan 20251h 11min
Bert Terhart, Bluewater Sailing
Bert Terhart is a Canadian adventurer who has cicumnavigated solo, nonstop, navigating only with a sextant. He also crossed Canada from west coast to east coast in a canoe in one season, which we tal...
6 Jan 20251h 1min
Dealtry Pickford, Preparing for the Global Solo Challenge in a Class 40
Dealtry Pickford is a South African sailor entered in the 2027 Global Solo Challenge, an around-the-world nonstop solo race. HIs background is dinghy racing, and his boat is a class 40. We talk about...
30 Dec 202459min
Pat Lawless in the Canary Islands
Pat Lawless is an entrant in the 2026 Golden Globe Race. He also sailed in the 2022 GGR, but had a failure of his windvane and retired in Cape Town, South Africa. We talk about the Canary Islands, hi...
23 Dec 202458min
Ambre Hasson, Mini Transat 2025
Ambre was born in Paris, but moved to the US when she was 10. She went to school and graduated with a degree in economics. After a brief career in New York City, she gave it all up to become a sailor,...
16 Dec 20241h 14min
Adventure Sailing in Scotland, Scott Johnston
Scott Johnston runs Yachting Scotland, an adventure-sailing and sailing tourism operation located in the Firth of Clyde on the west coast of Scotland. Our discussion begins with us talking about our b...
9 Dec 20241h 8min
Building and Sailing a 75' Steel Sailboat, Doug Jackson, SV Seeker
Doug Jackson spent fifteen years building a 75' steel junk-rigged sailboat in Tulsa Oklahoma. Aron Erwin introduced me to Doug, and I interviewed them both in episode 221 in the before and after Hurri...
2 Dec 20241h 2min
Adam Desrosiers, Living Off-Grid in Alaska, Sailing a Cape George 36
Adam lives off-grid in southeast Alaska and sails a Cape George 36. He was also a small-boat commercial fisherman and a merchant marine. We talk about Alaska, his history of commercial fishing, why w...
25 Nov 20241h 16min
