Ocean Sailing Podcast

By David Hows

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01.21.2023

David Hows is back with another ambitious tale and chapter of his exciting plans to expand Ocean Sailing Expeditions with the purchase of another 72-foot luxury expedition super yacht. The 3rd yacht to join Ocean Sailing Expeditions in less than ...

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01.21.2023 Honey I'm buying (another) 72ft Super Yacht at 90% below replacement value David Hows is back with another ambitious tale and chapter of his exciting plans to expand Ocean Sailing Expeditions with the purchase of another 72-foot luxury expedition super yacht. The 3rd yacht to join Ocean Sailing Expeditions in less than ...
01.21.2023 Stephen Ladd - Exploring Latin American Coasts and Rivers in a 21 foot yacht Ginny met Steve at a wooden boat festival in the 1990's when he was selling his book, Three Years in a 12-Foot Boat. She thought something like, “The crazy things people do!” Fast forward to 2022 and retired City Planner, ...
11.01.2022 Neil Driscoll: Training the key to avoiding tragedy at sea Neil grew up sailing in the UK and quickly became accustomed to the range of weather conditions that it serves up. By the time he was a few months old, he completed his first English Channel crossing. He fell into ...
10.21.2022 David Hows: 17 key lessons from 13 Tasman Sea Crossings David Hows crossed the Tasman Sea for the first time in 2013, relieved to have survived a 1,500nm crossing that he never expected to repeat. 9 years and 13 Tasman Sea Crossings later, David has experienced winds as high as ...
04.27.2022 Derek Hamer: Saving hundreds of thousands of mammals from accidental death Derek Hamer has devoted his life to helping save seals and whales. It's a great insight into the impact that fishing has on our oceans and the work thats been done by a handful of people to change how fishermen ...
04.27.2022 Walter Van Lier: Sails half way around the world on a wing and a prayer Walter Van Lier finds a 1980's Beneteau yacht for sale online and flies half way around the world during COVID to buy it. This is the story of a crazy adventurer with a heart of gold and his remarkable journey ...
03.11.2022 Derek Shields - Building a yacht out of a 1,000 year old Huon Pine log Imagine discovering a log that had just floated down a Tasmanian River in a storm and building an ocean going yacht out of it. Not just any log, but a rare Huon Pine log, felled 40 years earlier from a ...
03.11.2022 Suzie Christensen: sailor and CEO of the stunning Lord Howe Island Meet Suzie Christensen; sailor and CEO of the stunning Lord Howe Island. On my 4th visit to Lord Howe Island in 5 years I managed to catch up with the newly appointed island CEO for a chat about island life. ...
01.06.2022 Matt Harvey completes 4,200nm Tahiti to Sydney passage We catch up with Matt Harvey on the challenge of flying 32 hours to Tahiti, to pick up a rookie crew and prepare to deliver his new yacht ‘Salt Lines’ to Sydney, Australia to join Ocean Sailing Expeditions. Salt Lines ...
01.05.2022 Dan Farmer wins division in Sydney Hobart Race on yacht B52 Dan Farmer, owner and skipper of the Sydney 41 yacht ‘B52’, shares the story of his epic adventure in the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart Race, where more than 40% of the fleet retired due to damage or injuries. Dan explained ...
10.17.2021 Matt Harvey – Buys 70-foot expedition yacht 'sight unseen' in Tahiti I met Matt Harvey in June 2021 when he joined me onboard Silver Fern as Chief Mate on the 600nm passage from Southport to Hamilton Island, Queensland. With the various challenges that unfolded along the way, Matt proved himself as ...
08.22.2021 Maryanne and Kyle Webb - 5 Pacific Crossings and a catamaran cruising tale With a dream to sail the Atlantic one day, Maryanne (Scotland) met Kyle (USA) in 2002 and setting abut turning her dream into reality. They kicked their adventures on a 25 foot monohull on Lake Eerie and 19 years later ...
08.13.2021 David Hows: Aground for 10 hours on the mud in crocodile country David Hows shares an update on his 72-foot expedition yacht project - Silver Fern, with details of the last 6-months including the Americas Cup, the 10-month certification process with Maritime New Zealand, big budget blow-outs on the refit. David dives ...
02.26.2021 Jack Griffin - Its showtime: Luna Rossa vs ETNZ in Americas Cup 36 I catch up with America's Cup analyst and expert - Jack Griffin from CupExperience.com and we dive into the AC75 class, the shocks and surprises to date and the rocky road to the America's Cup Match in Auckland, New Zealand ...
12.30.2020 David Hows – Episode 100: Silver Fern Project Update & Limited Membership Opportunity In episode 100 of the Ocean Sailing Podcast, David Hows dives into his latest ‘Silver Fern’ 72-foot expedition yacht project and does a big update on the past 4 months of long days and unexpected obstacles, that included unplanned upgrades, ...
12.30.2020 Rodney Keenan - Founder of Evolution Sails on the 'high-tech. arms race' In this episode I meet with Rodney Keenan, founder of Evolution Sails, at his incredible high-tech membrane plant in Auckland, New Zealand about sail planning for my new project: Silver Fern. Rodney shares his advice on sail planning and the ...
12.26.2020 Vernon Deck - COVID19 Cruising Challenges in Indonesia Vernon Deck is a great example of jumping headfirst into sailing and just figuring it out as you go along. We initially interviewed Vernon in episode 68 and discovered how he purchased a Sayer 37 yacht 'Schiehallion' and before heading ...
12.26.2020 Coastguard Nelson (NZ) - getting found and staying alive David Hows and Phil Jarvis join the crew of Coastguard Nelson for a post-rescue debrief session, followed by a recorded podcast interview to discuss how yachties can learn lessons from previous Coastguard rescue case studies and tips on getting found ...
07.25.2020 Jana and Mick - Sailing through Central America, highlights and challenges Jana McGeachy and Mick O'Keefe (Beef) are not your typical semi-retired cruising sailors. As young sailors, they've worked hard, saved up and sold up. I first found out about their ambitious cruising plans in Episode 73. Now 14-months later, I ...
07.25.2020 Dustin Reynolds - From bankrupted, double amputee to solo circumnavigator I have yet to meet anyone more inspirational than Dustin Reynolds when it comes to turning personal tragedy and financial ruin into a completely new path in life. Hit by a drunk driver and left for dead on the side ...
07.25.2020 Geoff Wilson - world record setting explorer & adventurer Geoff’s Wilson's life changed forever on Boxing Day 2004. Within days of the Banda Aceh earthquake and tsunami, he was working on the ground as a relief team translator. The death and destruction was a huge wake-up call for Geoff ...
07.25.2020 Mark Chew - the joy of ocean sailing in classic wooden yachts Involved in ocean racing as a teenager and competing regularly as crew in all the Australian Blue Water Classics, Mark first became part of the wooden boat community 25 years ago with the purchase of the 1964 Sparkman and Stevens ...
07.11.2020 Dylan Magaster - Traveling the planet at age 21 on $1,000 An inspirational interview with Dylan Magaster who flew to South America at the age of 21 with only $1,000 in the bank and his camera gear and decided to go traveling. He backpacked for 6 months, converted a van into ...
05.22.2020 Honey I bought a 70 ft Super Yacht (at 90% below replacement value) David Hows shares this sneak preview of his exciting new sailing expeditions that lay ahead and the 70-foot expedition super yacht he is acquiring to make it all possible. This is your chance to get involved, get onboard and sail ...
05.07.2020 Disaster averted - Crew post-mortem on rescue & lessons learned This episode is about sharing the lessons from an initial mechanical failure that occurred in the middle of the Tasman Sea, that set off a chain of events over the course of 520nm, resulting in the Coastguard rescue of a ...
05.03.2020 Colin MacRae - rebuilding a hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 catamaran. Parlay Revival is a story about a young man from New Zealand, Colin, who spend's his life savings from a 10 year career as a Super yacht engineer, to buy a Lagoon catamaran that was badly damaged and partially sunk ...
04.18.2020 David Hows - Mid Tasman Sea steering failure & broken boom 4 days after departing Hobart Australia to sail 1,250nm across the Tasman Sea to Picton, New Zealand the crew of the Ocean Gem had to face a steering cable failure in the early morning hours, followed by two crash gybes ...
04.18.2020 Do what you love! Darren & Amanda give up jobs and go sailing This is the inspirational story of Amanda and Darren who decided to, give up great jobs and sell up and go sailing while in their early thirties. Whats amazing is they did not grow up around boats, they new nothing ...
03.05.2020 David Hows - Big Sailing & Podcast Update / Anniversary Edition / 500k downloads On the eve of the 4 year anniversary of the Ocean Sailing Podcast and the 500,000 download milestone achieved this month, producer David Hows shares a big update on whats next for him. With exciting new plans for his Ocean ...
02.16.2020 Andrew Bishop - first Fastnet at age 15. Advice on safety and being self sufficient Guest host Paul Trammell interviews Andrew Bishop of the World Cruising Club just prior to the 2019 Caribbean 600. Andrew completed his first Fastnet Race at age 15 and was later knocked unconscious in the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers in ...
02.02.2020 Dave & Gabes - the inspirational young couple sailing Elegant Gypsy The inspirational tale of Dave and Gabes who act on their dreams, throw in their jobs and spend 7 months sailing 5,000nm up the east coast of Australia from their home port in Hobart, Tasmania to the Whitsundays in Queensland ...
01.24.2020 David Hows - 150 dolphins, lost steering and crew emergency In March 2019 David Hows sailed 1,250 miles from Southport, Australia across the Tasman Sea to Auckland, New Zealand via Opua in the Bay of Islands with his crew of 4 onboard a Beneteau 45 named Ocean Gem. A fantastic ...
01.19.2020 Behan & Jamie - Sailing Totem to 48 countries with 3 kids Behan and Jamie left great careers in the USA 12 years ago to sail the globe with 3 young children in tow. They share some of the highlights, challenges and lessons from offshore cruising with kids, their roles as a ...
01.08.2020 James & Kimmi - Catamaran structural failure 60nm offshore James & Kimmi have sailed and free dived together since shortly after James purchased the 38 catamaran; SV Zingaro in 2016 before they met in Mexico. They share the story of their Catamaran's structural failure 60nm off the coast of ...
12.21.2019 Winning the Brisbane to Hamilton Island Yacht Race by just 7 minutes David Hows shares his race experience from the inaugural 530nm yacht race from Brisbane to Hamilton Island up Australia's east coast. This unlikely tale of a 27 year old Beneteau 45 foot yacht named Ocean Gem and a rookie crew ...
12.21.2019 Matt Andrews - From skiff sailor to the Volvo Ocean Race and Americas Cup Andy Lamont interviews Matt Andrews who started sailing on Moreton Bay with his dad as an 8 year old in the 1970’s on a Mirror dinghy followed by a 125, before moving to Balmain in Sydney and buying a Sabot ...
09.07.2019 David Hanton - Osmosis, antifouling & hull maintenance war stories I catch up with David Hanton from Bradford Marine and get deep and technical about protecting whats under your waterline. We dive into the typical issues with hull maintenance, osmosis in fibreglass and what causes it, how to know if ...
09.02.2019 Jon Bilger - Dinghy sailor, Americas Cup Winner & Predict Wind founder With a father who went to 5 olympics as Flying Dutchman competitor initially and then as coach, Jon Bilger spent his early years around sailing. He bought is first boat after saving $250 and asking his dad to build him ...
07.07.2019 Pascale and Troy - sailing remote Australia in their 30’ Clansman We join Troy and Pascale who are cruising remote Australia in their 30’ Clansman yacht called Mirrool. They left Perth in March 2017 and so far, have made it halfway around the continent traveling through the Kimberley, Arnhem Land, Torres ...
07.02.2019 Taylor Grieger - Sailing to Cape Horn with 3 hurricanes and 2 storms A unique and personal insight into the reasons some of us are drawn to the sea. Taylor Grieger is a Navy Veteran that returned from 6.5 years of active service and resigned from the military, only to suffer the tragedy ...
06.23.2019 Paul Willison - A life of tall ship sailing, teaching & catamaran cruising Paul Willison spent his early days as an outdoor education teacher and quickly migrated to working on a square rig sailing ship teaching high school kids to sail. He then set off to travel around the world and sailed on ...
05.27.2019 Jana McGeachy and Mick O'Keefe - Australians buy US yacht to cruise Bahama’s, Caribbean and Pacific Jana and Mick are not your typical semi-retired Australian offshore sailors. Surviving a head on crash in the outback at 100 km/hr at a young age, made them think differently about turning their sailing dreams into reality sooner. They worked ...
04.22.2019 Glenn Ashby - Capsizes, 100% foiling and 50 knot speeds in Americas Cup 36? From the moment Glenn Ashby won his first A-Class Cat World Title in Spain at age 18, he demonstrated an innate ability to understand the physics in play on the water and interpret them better than anyone else in his ...
04.22.2019 Patti and James Hunt - 73 countries in 25 years of cruising James and Patti Hunt are Australians who truly have the traveller’s spirit, having extensively backpacked as young Australians throughout Europe in the early 1980’s. They were introduced to sailing in the chilly conditions off the south coast of England and ...
03.25.2019 Andy Schell - '59 North' Adventure Sailor & 'On The Wind' podcast host Andy Schell produces the sailing podcast: 'On the Wind'. With more than 250 episodes under his belt, along with a sailing calendar that sees him tick off more than 10,000 sea miles each year, Andy eats, sleeps and breathes 'all ...
02.10.2019 Deborah Dalziel: Sailor and sailing technology entrepreneur Deborah Dalziel is both sailor and sailing technology entrepreneur. We explore the story behind the business idea, to find out what drove Deborah, as the Founder of www.MySail.Team to create a Web and App platform, designed to make race crew ...
02.03.2019 Vernon Deck: Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia Vernon Deck is a great example of jumping head first into sailing and just figuring it out as you go along. He learned by watching sailing videos and doing local racing as crew, then purchased a yacht, spent 3 weeks ...
01.26.2019 Paul Trammell: Using writing to fund a solo adventure sailing life Paul Trammel has a passion for surfing, sailing and free-diving. Paul shares his plans to sell up and head off for a life of solo sailing adventure, funded in part by his solo-sailing book writing. With plans to live on ...
01.18.2019 New Zealand to Alaska and back in a 37-foot plywood catamaran Dennis Webster built his 37-foot plywood catamaran ‘Catalyst’ for just $27,000 and then set off with his family to sail from New Zealand to the Pacific Islands, Guam, Japan and Alaska before sailing down the west coast of Canada and ...
12.24.2018 R2AK - Grahams Shaw's 750nm race from Washington to Alaska The inside passage to Alaska has been paddled by native canoes since time immemorial. It’s in the spirit of tradition, exploration, and the lawless self-reliance of the gold rush that the Race to Alaska was born. R2AK is the first ...

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