H2O Podcast

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H2O Podcast episodes

August 31, 2018 36th America's Cup launch. 31 Aug, 2018
The 36th America’s Cup is launched in Cowes. Hear from all 4 skippers hoping to lift the oldest trophy in international sport.
Also, the Harmsworth trophy is lifted, the bell from SS Mendi goes home to South Africa and hear about the man who dazzle painted the Royal Navy fleet in the first world war.
Podcast produced and presented by Neil Sackley.
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51 min
August 24, 2018 The RS Games. 24 Aug, 2018
This week we’re at the Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy as the 25th anniversary RS Games draws to a close. Also we hear from the sailor with a unique crowd finding scheme, HMS Queen Elizabeth leaves for the States, we look ahead to Bart’s Bash and tributes to paraplegic sailor Hilary Lister
Podcast produced and presented by Neil Sackley.
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Pic: Sportography
1 hr 12 min
August 17, 2018 National Coastwatch in Dorset. 17 Aug, 2018
Some good news this week from National Coastwatch, a Clipper Race crew member reflects on his race. The Old Gaffers are in Cowes and Poole lifeboat rescues a yacht from the chain ferry.
Podcast produced and presented by Neil Sackley.
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27 min
August 10, 2018 Cowes Week. 10 Aug, 2018
It’s Cowes Week, and we’re looking back at the world’s greatest sailing regatta.
Sir Ben Ainslie tells us about the 1851 trust – Cowes Week’s official charity, Tracy Edwards talks about her 1989 Whitbread race, what happened next and the restoration of Maiden.
We’ll hear from some of the young sailors taking part in the regatta, and we find out from title sponsor Lendy why they put their name to this iconic event.
Plus we go for a spin with some of the crew of Akzo Nobel, as they look back on their Volvo Ocean Race campaign.
Podcast produced and presented by Neil Sackley.
email: [email protected].
55 min
August 03, 2018 Clipper Race finish. 3 Aug, 2018
History is made as the Clipper Race ends in Liverpool.
Also, the Sailing World Championships start in Denmark, it’s lifeboat week in Lyme Regis, we meet the 2 grandads planning to row the Atlantic and remember round the world sailor Tony Bullimore.
Podcast produced and presented by Neil Sackley.
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Pic: imagecomms Clipper Race Finish, Liverpool.
59 min
July 27, 2018 SS Shieldhall. 27 Jul, 2018
This week from on board SS Shieldhall as the charity celebrates 30 years of ownership.
Also this week Red Jet 7 is named, and we remember Sir Alec Rose’s return to Portsmouth in July 1968.
Podcast produced and presented by Neil Sackley.
email: [email protected].
52 min
July 13, 2018 Round the Island Race review. 13 July, 2018
In this Round the Island Race round up we hear from some of the trophy winners, including the Gold Roman Bowl winner. And spend time with the Sandown and Shanklin Independent Lifeboat as they prepare to go out on patrol.
Plus we have the founder of the Turn to Starboard charity telling us about the plans for their new Gosport centre, we’re on board HMS Bristol at the annual Portsmouth Schools Regatta and Ian Walker tells us about the challenges facing British Sailing.
Podcast produced and presented by Neil Sackley.
email: [email protected]
1 hr 23 min
July 06, 2018 Volvo Ocean Race. 6 July, 2018
This week, a dramatic finish to the Volvo Ocean Race and Sir Ben Ainslie talks about his team’s plans for the next America’s Cup campaign.
We’re at Seawork International in Southampton, finding out how the event has grown over the past 21 years, visit Trinity House’s Alert, hear about a new kill cord design and meet a female engineering trainee.
Also this week, we have a look around Dorset’s last remaining tall ship, find out what it takes to be a ferryman on the Hamble, hear from the cast of a play marking the SS Mendi tragedy and find out how noise could be affecting marine life
Podcast produced and presented by Neil Sackley.
email: [email protected]
35 min
June 29, 2018 HMS Alliance
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston and Shelley Jory-Leigh tour WWII submarine HMS Alliance.
28 min
June 29, 2018 Welcome to the H2O Podcast
In this archive edition, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston and Shelley Jory-Leigh visit The Needles lighthouse.
They hear from Gordon Medlicott, one of the last keepers to live at the lighthouse before it was automated in 1994.
Trinity House’s lighthouse manager Warren Clarke is on hand to give them a tour of the famous landmark, and attendant Sean Crane tells them how the light is maintained.
36 min

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