Ocean Sailing Podcast

By David Hows

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Capturing and sharing ocean sailing stories and adventures. The Ocean Sailing Podcast site is designed for people who love to cruise, race or explore the worlds oceans. Its also for those yet to experience the joy of sailing and those no longer able to cast off their dock lines and head for the open sea. Join now and subscribe free to our podcast episodes

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Jana and Mick - Sailing thr...

07.25.2020

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 ...

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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 ...
12.18.2018 Passage to Middleton Reef, Elizabeth Reef, Lord Howe Island & Balls Pyramid An episode with the Ocean Gem crew, who recount their epic 1,000nm trip from Southport to Pittwater via Middleton Reef, Elizabeth Reef, Lord Howe Island and Balls Pyramid. These unique reefs and islands are 300nm off Australia's Coast and are ...
12.03.2018 Josh Scarrow: Scientist and sailor, from Antarctica to Port Vila A fascinating interview with New Zealand scientist and sailor; Josh Scarrow, who has spent time on the ice in Antartica on three different occasions, taking him to 85 degrees south, 2,800 metres high and temperatures below -20 degrees C. Josh ...
11.18.2018 Nick Moloney: 15 World Sailing Speed Records, 3 Circumnavigations Nick has packed a lot into his 30-year sailing career including an around-the-globe non-stop world sailing speed record in 2002, where he and his team captured the Trophée Jules Verne. That same year, he also achieved a 1st place in ...
10.13.2018 Tony Allan: Tasman Sea trimaran capsize, 20 days in a liferaft After competing in the Solo Tasman Yacht Challenge 1974, Christchurch man Tony Allan was sailing back to New Zealand from Mooloolaba, Australia, when his boat, Rebel II, capsized two days into the journey, leaving him adrift in his life raft ...
09.29.2018 Sytske du Crocq: Sail Race Crew founder and sailing entrepreneur Sytske du Crocq is a Netherlands based sailing entrepreneur who has turned her passion for racing in exotic destinations, into a global business. I met Sytske by chance at Hamilton Island in Australia when she was here to compete in ...
09.22.2018 Mark Gallick: 22 years with the US Coast Guard and a 600nm ocean passage Mark Gallick joins me onboard Ocean Gem for a 600nm ocean passage from Hamilton Island to Southport in Queensland. Its a challenging passage that takes in islands, reefs, whales, commercial and military traffic and a number of navigational challenges including ...
09.16.2018 Jason Ker: The history and future of Ker Yacht Design Guest host Joe Richardson interviews Jason Ker, founder of Ker Yacht Design onboard his very own ‘Ker designed’ 19.2m (63 feet) racer/cruiser yacht “Dark Horse of England”. Jason Ker launched Ker Yacht Design than 20 years ago and he talks ...
09.08.2018 David Young: Ship wrecked off the US coast after rolling 360 degrees Guest host Paul Trammell is back and interviews David Young who lives in Jacksonville Florida on his Endeavour 35 yacht, built in 1984. He shares his experience on Pacific voyaging, using parachute anchors and drogues, 4 decades of ocean sailing; ...
08.05.2018 Double, Solo Tasman Sea Crossing - challenges and setbacks David Hows set out from Hobart in Tasmania and sailed 1,300nm solo across the notorious Tasman Sea to New Plymouth in New Zealand in preparation for the 4-yearly 1,400nm Solo Tasman Yacht Race back to Mooloolaba on Australia's Sunshine Coast. ...
07.14.2018 Paul Trammell: Solo sailing, free diving, surfing & canoeing with alligators Paul Trammel is one of the most down-to-earth, consummate sailors you will meet. With a passion for surfing, sailing and free-diving, the ocean is a big part of Paul's life. From cruising the Bahamas, to free diving into under water ...
07.10.2018 Caroline Ballard: An Atlantic crossing tale of strange night time noises In this episode, we’ll hear from guest host Caroline Ballard from a fellow podcast called HumaNature, which tells stories where humans and our habitat meet. After passing Sable Island (a small island situated 190 nm southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia) ...
07.01.2018 Jim den Hartog and Helen den Dekker: 22 years of cruising all over the world Guest host Paul Trammell talks with Jim den Hartog and Helen den Dekker on board Gaia, a steel Colvin Gazelle designed yacht, that they spent a decade building from plans. Paul interviewed Jim and Helen at Conception Island in the ...
06.23.2018 Lena Padukova: Sydney to Hobart, sailing the Arctic and leading teams We catch up with Lena Padukova in Gothenburg, Sweden for finish of the penultimate leg of the Volvo Ocean Race. Lena is an experienced ocean sailor, mountaineer and leader of multiple ocean adventures and land expeditions. Lena shares stories from ...
05.31.2018 David Hows: my next sailing challenge and adventure David Hows, producer of the Ocean Sailing Podcast; shares his thoughts on his first 7 years of keel boat cruising, racing and ocean passages in his Beneteau 445 'Ocean Gem'. After 25,000nm and 400+ races, with the most recent adventure ...
05.23.2018 Sonny Natanielu: the revival of Polynesian voyaging An absolutely fascinating chat with Sonny Natanielu, about the revival of traditional Polynesian voyaging methods using waka (canoes) that go back several hundred years. It was a tremendous insight into the importance of the ocean and significance of waka (canoes). ...
04.29.2018 2017 Rolex Sydney Hobart Race Skippers Debrief In this episode I spent a session with Rod West, owner/skipper of Another Painkiller (a Beneteau First 44.7) and Philip Bell, owner/skipper of She (an Olsen 40) and we reflected on our preparation and race experience and did a post ...
03.02.2018 Mike Sabin shares a life time of sailing adventures Andy Lamont interviews Mike Sabin about his lifetime of adventures on the water. Mikes a boat builder, sail maker, has been a coastal patrol pilot and has sailed every part of the Australian coastline. At age 40 Mike sold everything ...
02.18.2018 Rob Mundle on Jimmy Spithill's America's Cup Journey & Biography I caught up with my favourite maritime author - Rob Mundle in late 2017, on 'all things Jimmy Spithill' and his recent project writing Jimmy's biography 'Chasing the Cup - My Americas Cup Journey'. Jimmy Spithill is arguably one of ...

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