Out The Gate Sailing

By Benjamin Shaw

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A podcast about sailing and adventure on and around San Francisco Bay

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Stan Honey // Part 2: Fixin...

06.29.2020

Stan Honey is a professional navigator, inventor and businessman who’s won 11 Transpacs, the Volvo Ocean Race and set a non-stop circumnavigation record a transatlantic speed record. In addition to being a successful navigator he’s an accomplished inventor and businessman. ...

Out The Gate Sailing episodes:

06.29.2020 Stan Honey // Part 2: Fixing Boats and Rules - Ep. 47 Stan Honey is a professional navigator, inventor and businessman who’s won 11 Transpacs, the Volvo Ocean Race and set a non-stop circumnavigation record a transatlantic speed record. In addition to being a successful navigator he’s an accomplished inventor and businessman. ...
06.15.2020 Stan Honey // Part 1: Sailor, Navigator, Inventor, Record-Breaker - Ep. 46 Stan Honey is a professional navigator, inventor, and businessman who’s won 11 Transpacs, the Volvo Ocean Race, and set a non-stop circumnavigation record a transatlantic speed record. In addition to being a successful navigator he’s an accomplished inventor and businessman. ...
06.01.2020 Jim Quanci // Three Decades of Ocean Racing: It’s a Family Affair - Ep. 45 Jim Quanci has been sailing and racing on San Francisco Bay since the early 80s. He’s raced to Hawaii 18 times, once with his whole family, once alone, and many times with his wife - whom he met while racing ...
05.18.2020 Ryan Nelson // Making a Career Out of a Passion for Sailing - Ep. 44 Ryan Nelson has loved being on the water from a very young age. As a kid he cobbled together logs, a pole, and some fabric into a sailing raft. Today, as the owner and operator of Rogue Rigging, he’s still ...
05.05.2020 John Neal // What 300,000 Miles at Sea Will Teach You - Ep. 43 At the age of 22, John Neal bought a 27-foot Albin Vega sloop and set off from Seattle headed for Hawaii. His book chronicling that voyage, Log of Mahina, became a best seller and people started seeking him out to ...
04.20.2020 Kame Richards // 46 Years of Sailmaking, Racing, and Learning - Ep. 42 When Kame Richards started Pineapple Sails in 1973, he’d only been sailing a handful of times. Forty-six years later, his business is still going strong and he’s learned a whole lot about sailmaking and sailing. In this interview we talk ...
04.06.2020 Sailing Totem // The Gifford Family of Five Spends a Decade Circumnavigating - Ep. 41 In 2008, Behan and Jamie Gifford set sail from Seattle with their three children, Niall, Mairen, and Siobhan. Their Stevens 47, Totem, took them down to Mexico, across the pacific, and beyond. Almost exactly ten years later they crossed their ...
03.23.2020 John Kretschmer // Philosopher, Professional Sailor, and Epic Storyteller - Ep. 40 John Kretschmer is a philosopher sailor and a great storyteller - in the vein of Bernard Moitessier. As a sailor he’s logged more than 300,000 offshore sailing miles. He’s taught thousands of people about ocean sailing, imparting his knowledge in ...
03.10.2020 Rich Jepsen // Matching a Love of Sailing with a Passion for Teaching - Ep. 39 Rich Jepsen found his life’s work at age 14, when he was allowed to take a small boat out sailing for the day by himself. Eight years later he got his first gig teaching sailing, and he’s continued that work ...
02.24.2020 Schwarzman & Rucker // A Family of Four Circles the Pacific in a Year and A Day - Ep. 38 In January 2018, Caitlin Schwarzman and Jason Rucker set sail with their son Arlo and daughter Alma, from Alameda for a year-long adventure through the Pacific. Their boat Debonaire is a 44-foot double-ended wooden ketch - and is the sister ...
02.10.2020 Elana Connor // Part 2: Finding Yourself, Alone, in the Middle of the Pacific Ocean - Ep. 37 In part two of this two part interview, Elana Conner talks about sailing solo across the Pacific: what made her think she could accomplish it in the first place, what lessons she learned after she got out there, and why ...
02.03.2020 Elana Connor // Part 1: From Foster Care to Sailing Solo Across the Pacific - Ep. 36 As a child, Elana Conner lost both of her parents and spent her school years in foster care, hoping from family to family. She struggled, but managed to finish high school and then college. She learned to sail in San ...
01.20.2020 Lauren Moody // The Frustrations and Joy of Refurbishing an Old Boat - Ep. 35 Lauren Moody fell in love with the sea when she served in the Navy aboard an aircraft carrier. But it wasn’t until after her deployment at UCSC that she got into sailing, on boats that were a little smaller. After ...
01.06.2020 Rescue at Sea // Why Schedules and Sailing Don’t Mix - Ep. 34 In 2001, while cruising in the Caribbean, my girlfriend Miranda had to be evacuated from our boat and taken to a local hospital due to extreme dehydration. It was one of the scariest experiences I’ve had at sea and I ...
12.23.2019 Jim Hancock // Building the SF Sailing Science Center - Ep. 33 Jim Hancock is the founder and president of the San Francisco Sailing Science Center, a hands-on, interactive learning center that will be headquartered on Treasure Island. He's a long-time Bay Area sailor who has cruised the Pacific, been a sailing ...
12.09.2019 Vawters on the Water // A Family of Four Cruising the Pacific - Ep. 32 In 2015, the Vawter family, parents Cameron and Annie with daughters Isa (6) and Adelaide (7), set off under the Golden Gate Bridge aboard their Mason 43, Banyan. They've been cruising the Pacific ever since, arriving in New Zealand last ...
11.24.2019 Trevor Hope & Lizzie Shipton // Ex-Musicians Follow Their Dream to Sail the World on SV Loki - Ep. 31 Trev and Lizzie were musicians when they met. When Trev fell in love with sailing, Lizzie was more than game to do what they needed to do to follow their now shared dream of moving aboard a boat and sailing ...
11.11.2019 Randall Reeves // Figure 8 Voyage Completed - A Record Breaking Return - Ep. 30 On Oct. 19, 2019, Randall Reeves sailed back under the Golden Gate Bridge, completing his Figure 8 Voyage. I sat down with him aboard his boat Moli to reflect on the record-breaking trip, what draws him to single-handing, adjusting to ...
10.28.2019 Tony Gooch // Memories from a Solo, Nonstop Circumnavigation - Ep. 29 Tony Gooch was the first person to ever complete a solo, nonstop circumnavigation from the West Coast of North America. He did this in the early 2000s, aboard his 44-foot aluminum cutter Taonui. Nearly 20 years later, Randall Reeves used ...
10.14.2019 Garrett & Audrey Ruhland // From Idea to Cruising in 5 Years - Ep. 28 Five years ago, Garrett and Audrey Ruhland had a life-changing discussion about the five things they most wanted out of life. From that discussion, a dream to travel and sail the world was born. But neither of them knew how ...
10.07.2019 Barry Spanier // Part 2: Building What You Dream - Ep. 27 In the 60s, Barry Spanier built a boat in San Francisco, sailed it through the South Pacific and then lost it, and everything but his life, in a shipwreck. Starting over again, he launched a sail loft in Hawaii and ...
09.30.2019 Barry Spanier // Part 1: Shipwrecked in the South Pacific - Ep. 26 Long before Barry Spanier started Maui Sails and became a legend in windsurfing sail design, he built a ferro-cement sloop in San Francisco and sailed off to the South Pacific. He was running of away from the madness of the ...
09.16.2019 Randall Reeves // Completing the Northwest Passage - Ep. 25 Just about a year ago, Randall Reeves sailed out the gate on his epic Figure 8 Voyage. I last caught up with him in Halifax, Nova Scotia after he'd spent 8 months at sea alone. Now, after just completing the ...
09.09.2019 Allison Payne // Chasing Cetaceans with WhaleGirl - Ep. 24 Allison Payne is known by many simply as WhaleGirl. As a researcher with the Marine Mammal Center Cetacean Field Research team, she heads out into the ocean daily, sometimes three times a day. She is a naturalist for San Francisco ...
09.02.2019 April & Bruce Winship // Set Sail and Live Your Dreams - Ep. 23 Bruce and April Winship set sail from San Francisco aboard their catamaran Chewbacca when their daughters Kendall and Quincy were 5 and 7. They spent a decade cruising together as a family through Mexico then Central & South America. Their ...
08.26.2019 Paul Exner // Building a Life and a Business in Hawaii - Ep. 22 Paul Exner has dedicated his life to the practice and teaching of Ocean Sailing through his business Modern Geographic. He is a coach and mentor to those he takes on sailing expeditions. He sails out of the big island of ...
08.19.2019 Warwick "Commodore" Tompkins // A Philosophy of Sailing Gained from a Lifetime at Sea - Ep. 21 Warwick "Commodore" Tompkins began life afloat just weeks after being born. He spent the first nine years of his life aboard the 85-foot schooner Wander Bird, and rounded Cape Horn - the wrong way - when he was only four. ...
08.12.2019 Ben Doerr // Sail to Ski in the Pacific NW - Ep. 20 Ben Doerr is a charter captain, a husband, a father of two, and a professional musician. From his base in Bainbridge Island, just west of Seattle, WA, he runs, Sail Bainbridge, a sailing adventures outfit aboard his John Alden designed ...
08.05.2019 Josh Berry // Near Miss: The Survival of a Shark Man - Ep. 19 With his new film Near Miss, Director Josh Berry has created a poetic portrait of Ron Elliot. An urchin diver and keen underwater observer, Elliot has spent countless hours underwater at the Farallon Islands, much of it in the company ...
07.29.2019 Lauren Keane & Ben Shaw // Crewing on ICEBEAR & Sailing as a Family - Ep. 18 My wife Lauren and I recently crewed aboard Andy Schell & Mia Karlsson's 59-foot Swan, ICEBEAR from Annapolis, MD to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. We talked with Andy about that experience and our goal to go cruising with our own kids ...
07.22.2019 Andy & Mia of 59 North // Building a Business and a Life Together at Sea - Ep. 17 Andy Schell and Mia Karlsson started their charter business, 59° North, to pursue their own passion for offshore sailing and share it with others. My wife Lauren and I sailed from Annapolis, MD to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia aboard their 59-foot ...
07.15.2019 Captain Kira Maixner // A Conversation about Women on the Water - Ep. 16 Captain Kira Maixner began sailing in 2014 and it quickly became a way of life for her. She is now a sailing instructor at the Modern Sailing School and Club in Sausalito and crew on the USA 76 America's Cup ...
07.08.2019 Mary & Memo Gidley // 101 Days on a Raft - Ep.15 Mary Gidley spent 101 days floating across the Atlantic on a raft as part of a sociological experiment. That experience is captured in the new documentary called The Raft. Mary had other adventures on the water, including opening and running ...
07.01.2019 Amanda Swan Neal // Racing aboard Maiden - Ep.14 Amanda Swan Neal was the rigger aboard Maiden, the first ever yacht sailed by an all-female crew in the round-the-world Whitbread race in 1989. I talk with Amanda about the new documentary, by director Alex Holmes, called Maiden, which tells ...
06.24.2019 Q+M Travels // From Panama to San Francisco - Ep.13 Quincey & Mitchell are a young, inspiring couple who are working to get a charter business, Q+M Travels, up and running. They have a great boat for it, a Kelly Peterson 46, that they found in Panama and sailed back ...
06.17.2019 Randall Reeves // Landfall in Halifax - Ep.12 In September of 2018, Randall Reeves set out from San Francisco on the Figure 8 Voyage 2.0. Since then he has spent 227 days at sea alone, rounding Cape Horn twice, in an attempt to circumnavigate both Antarctica and the ...
06.02.2019 Sid Shaw // First Ever Solar Panel on a Cruising Boat - Ep.11 In 1965, my dad sailed across the Pacific Ocean on a 35-ft Piver designed trimaran. Onboard was the very first solar panel ever on a cruising boat. The boat's owner, Venkataraman Radhakrishnan, had friends at Bell Labs who were building ...
05.27.2019 Katie Burgess // Sun Powered Yachts - Ep.10 Katie and Lyall Burgess met while sailing in the Caribbean. After purchasing their own yacht, they realized there was little info available to help boat owners go solar. This prompted them to found Sun Powered Yachts in 2018. Katie and ...
05.20.2019 Team Shut Up And Drive // R2AK: 750-miles from WA to AK - Ep.09 The Race to Alaska runs 750-miles, from Port Townsend, Washington to Ketchikan, AK and has only two rules: 1) No Engine 2) No Support Crew. The eight members of Team Shut Up And Drive will spend a week together on ...
05.12.2019 Small Wonder // Cruising SF Bay in a 10-ft Dinghy - Ep.08 In September of 2017, I spent a week living and cruising San Francisco Bay aboard a 10-foot, mahogany sailing dinghy. I learned a lot about local waters and met some interesting sailors along the way. An article about the adventure ...
05.04.2019 Luc Maheu // Traditions, Tattoos & Tiger - Ep.07 For Luc Maheu, working on the water is all about heritage. Sailing is in his blood and he's keeping the tradition alive in style. He's a master mariner, a merchant marine, a charter captain and in his spare time runs ...
04.24.2019 Travis Lund // Treasure Island Sailing Center - Ep.06 Many Bay Area kids and adults have learned to sail on Clipper Cove, the largest, most well-protected cove on the San Francisco city shoreline. Travis Lund is the Executive Director of the Treasure Island Sailing Center, a sailing school on ...
04.06.2019 Pete Lyons // Land Sailing at 65 MPH - Ep.05 Pete Lyons likes sailing at highway speeds. Land sailing that is. Pete was driving along a lakebed when he saw sails in the distance. He went to investigate and discovered the boats were on wheels. He fell in love with ...
03.25.2019 Jon Buser // Taming an America's Cup Monster - Ep.04 Jonathan Buser first learned to sail small boats at the Richmond Yacht Club junior program. Today, he still sails on SF Bay, but aboard USA 76, an 84-foot racing machine that nearly won the 2003 America's cup.
03.11.2019 David McGuire // Sharks and Sailing - Ep.03 Marine biologist David McGuire is the founder of Shark Stewards, a non-profit focused on shark conservation. He tells the tale of looking a great white in the eye and how sailing in the Pacific led to his work saving sharks.
02.24.2019 Randall Reeves // Figure 8 Solo Circumnavigation - Ep.02 Randall left San Francisco Bay last autumn in an attempt to become the first person to circumnavigate both the American and Antarctic continents in one season. He's rounded Cape Horn and is now headed back for a second pass, before ...
02.07.2019 Heather Richard // Navigating Hurricane Force Winds - Ep.01 In this very first OTG episode, I talk to Heather Richard, a charter captain out of Sausalito who has been sailing on SF Bay nearly every day for more 20 years. She talks about being a strong woman sailor, nearly ...

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Out The Gate Sailing episodes:

Stan Honey // Part 2: Fixing Boats and Rules - Ep. 47

Stan Honey // Part 1: Sailor, Navigator, Inventor, Record-Breaker - Ep. 46

Jim Quanci // Three Decades of Ocean Racing: It’s a Family Affair - Ep. 45

Ryan Nelson // Making a Career Out of a Passion for Sailing - Ep. 44

John Neal // What 300,000 Miles at Sea Will Teach You - Ep. 43

Kame Richards // 46 Years of Sailmaking, Racing, and Learning - Ep. 42

Sailing Totem // The Gifford Family of Five Spends a Decade Circumnavigating - Ep. 41

John Kretschmer // Philosopher, Professional Sailor, and Epic Storyteller - Ep. 40

Rich Jepsen // Matching a Love of Sailing with a Passion for Teaching - Ep. 39

Schwarzman & Rucker // A Family of Four Circles the Pacific in a Year and A Day - Ep. 38

Elana Connor // Part 2: Finding Yourself, Alone, in the Middle of the Pacific Ocean - Ep. 37

Elana Connor // Part 1: From Foster Care to Sailing Solo Across the Pacific - Ep. 36

Lauren Moody // The Frustrations and Joy of Refurbishing an Old Boat - Ep. 35

Rescue at Sea // Why Schedules and Sailing Don’t Mix - Ep. 34

Jim Hancock // Building the SF Sailing Science Center - Ep. 33

Vawters on the Water // A Family of Four Cruising the Pacific - Ep. 32

Trevor Hope & Lizzie Shipton // Ex-Musicians Follow Their Dream to Sail the World on SV Loki - Ep. 31

Randall Reeves // Figure 8 Voyage Completed - A Record Breaking Return - Ep. 30

Tony Gooch // Memories from a Solo, Nonstop Circumnavigation - Ep. 29

Garrett & Audrey Ruhland // From Idea to Cruising in 5 Years - Ep. 28

Barry Spanier // Part 2: Building What You Dream - Ep. 27

Barry Spanier // Part 1: Shipwrecked in the South Pacific - Ep. 26

Randall Reeves // Completing the Northwest Passage - Ep. 25

Allison Payne // Chasing Cetaceans with WhaleGirl - Ep. 24

April & Bruce Winship // Set Sail and Live Your Dreams - Ep. 23

Paul Exner // Building a Life and a Business in Hawaii - Ep. 22

Warwick "Commodore" Tompkins // A Philosophy of Sailing Gained from a Lifetime at Sea - Ep. 21

Ben Doerr // Sail to Ski in the Pacific NW - Ep. 20

Josh Berry // Near Miss: The Survival of a Shark Man - Ep. 19

Lauren Keane & Ben Shaw // Crewing on ICEBEAR & Sailing as a Family - Ep. 18

Andy & Mia of 59 North // Building a Business and a Life Together at Sea - Ep. 17

Captain Kira Maixner // A Conversation about Women on the Water - Ep. 16

Mary & Memo Gidley // 101 Days on a Raft - Ep.15

Amanda Swan Neal // Racing aboard Maiden - Ep.14

Q+M Travels // From Panama to San Francisco - Ep.13

Randall Reeves // Landfall in Halifax - Ep.12

Sid Shaw // First Ever Solar Panel on a Cruising Boat - Ep.11

Katie Burgess // Sun Powered Yachts - Ep.10

Team Shut Up And Drive // R2AK: 750-miles from WA to AK - Ep.09

Small Wonder // Cruising SF Bay in a 10-ft Dinghy - Ep.08

Luc Maheu // Traditions, Tattoos & Tiger - Ep.07

Travis Lund // Treasure Island Sailing Center - Ep.06

Pete Lyons // Land Sailing at 65 MPH - Ep.05

Jon Buser // Taming an America's Cup Monster - Ep.04

David McGuire // Sharks and Sailing - Ep.03

Randall Reeves // Figure 8 Solo Circumnavigation - Ep.02

Heather Richard // Navigating Hurricane Force Winds - Ep.01

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