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In this month’s podcast we brings you interviews with winning skippers, owners and crew as they leave the stage having picked up their trophies at the St. Maarten Heineken Regatta, the largest regatta in the Caribbean. Interviewees include Lloyd Thornburg, owner and co-skipper of the record breaking and record setting 70-foot trimaran Phaedoᶾ; Gerd-Jan Poortman of the Volvo 65 Team Brunel; America’s Cup sailor Peter Holmberg from Highland Fling; St. Maarten Melges 24 champion Frits Bus; Ross Appleby of Scarlet Oyster fame, the boat that almost sunk; the owner of the winning Gunboat Elvis; and Tadzio Bervoets, staunch environmentalist and crew on the very successful local First 45F5 L’Esperance.

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This month we talk to Garth Steyn. Steyn is the driving force behind Kidz at Sea, a program designed to help and support teenage students from St. Maarten’s Milton Peters college, a local school, successfully build a 26ft Dudley Dix design race boat which they will campaign in regional regattas. In our second interview we talk to regatta guru and Heineken Regatta race Director Paul Miller about the growing Melges 24 class of race boats.

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Join me down below as we tour the Volvo 65, Team Brunel, the boat that finished second in the 2014/15 Volvo Ocean Race. Have you got what it takes to round Cape Horn in one of these stripped-out hi-tech fliers? You have got to be tough to race one of these boats. You'll find no comfort here!

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