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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Brady & Blue // Buying a Bo...

06.20.2022

In this second interview with Brady Trautman and Alex Blue of S/V Delos fame, we talk about their new Passport 42, Lintika - the largest boat in their Cruisers Academy fleet. The sail training school they’re running in Tahoe and ...

Out The Gate Sailing episodes:

06.20.2022 Brady & Blue // Buying a Boat w Bitcoin & Surviving a Tsunami - Ep. 98 In this second interview with Brady Trautman and Alex Blue of S/V Delos fame, we talk about their new Passport 42, Lintika - the largest boat in their Cruisers Academy fleet. The sail training school they’re running in Tahoe and ...
06.06.2022 Mark Hensley // From Sailing Sunfish to Commanding Tankers - Ep. 97 Mark Hensley, knows sailing - he’s sailed his entire life. But he’s spent most of his time on the water at sea as captain of an oil tanker during a 20-year career with Arco Marine. He’s got plenty of stories ...
05.16.2022 Jim Antrim // Designing & Racing an Eclectic Portfolio of Sailboats - Ep. 96 Jim Antrim, often called the Wizard of El Sobrante, is a naval architect who apprenticed under Dick Carter, Britton Chance and Gary Mull. He’s designed record breaking multihull and monohull sailboats as well as popular production boats. He’s an expert ...
05.01.2022 Matt Rutherford // From SF to Japan in a 30-foot Daysailer - Ep. 95 Matt Rutherford made a name for himself when he completed a solo, 309-day, non-stop, record-breaking trip around the Americas in a 27-foot Albin Vega. Today he’s focused on putting the finishing touches on a 72-foot, Brucer Roberts designed steel schooner ...
04.19.2022 Cameron Albin // Going to Sea to Heal War Wounds - Ep. 94 Cameron Albin is a marine and an Iraq war veteran who suffered a traumatic brain injury while on deployment. After being discharged from the military he found himself struggling, until he rediscovered sailing. Now, he’s started American Odysseus Sailing Foundation ...
04.04.2022 Billy & Sierra Swezey // Tula’s Endless Summer Marches on From Boat to Boat - Ep. 93 Billy and Sierra Swezey are better known to their online fans as the couple behind Tula's Endless Summer. The two met at a surf shop in Florida when Billy sailed in on his small boat. Not too long afterwards both ...
03.21.2022 Tyler Walkey & Julia Sinusia // An Offshore Passage Days After Buying a Boat - Ep. 92 Tyler Walkey and Julie Sinusia fell in love with a ketch rigged Ingrid 38 in Monterey. Trouble was they needed to get it down to Los Angles within days of purchasing her because they had flights home to Japan they ...
03.06.2022 Alex Kleeman & Lauren Sloss / Adventures Far and Near on a Valiant 32 - Ep. 91 When Lauren Sloss met Alex Kleeman in San Francisco, she was planning on moving to New York to study journalism. He was planning on sailing the world. They managed to do both of those things and stay together as a ...
02.22.2022 Jack Patton & Sonya David / Two the Horizon on a Passport 42 - Ep. 90 Sonya David and Jack Patton met while sailing, and really haven’t stopped. They live together on their Passport 42, along with their cat Fathom, and together run Spirit Marine Services a business they started to do boat projects and maintenance ...
02.07.2022 Michael Robertson / Cruising while Running a Sailing Magazine - Ep. 89 The former editor of Good Old Boat magazine got into sail ing when his mother mistakenly subscribed to Cruising World when he was a kid. He met his wife Windy through a Latitude 38 crew list and ended up cruising ...
01.24.2022 Bekah Lane & Kathi George / Whale Strikes and Entanglements in the SF Bay - Ep. 88 This week we go below the waves to learn more about how what we humans do on the water while fishing, sailing, or shipping impacts humpback whales and other marine mammals. I’m joined by Kathi George and Bekah Lane both ...
01.11.2022 Cree Partridge / Racer, Boatbuilder, Owner of Berkeley Marine Center - Ep. 87 Cree Partridge started building boats in his parents front yard while still in elementary school. His passion for being on the water started at a young age and continues to this day. In college, he channeled his desire to be ...
12.27.2021 Ben Pedersen-Wedlock & Anna Behrens // Circumnavigating the Americas in an Engineless Boat - Ep. 86 Ben Pedersen-Wedlock grew up on boats and is an experienced ocean sailor. Anna Behrens had little to no sailing experience - until she met Ben. About a year after meeting, the two took off cruising in a 28-foot, ferro cement, ...
12.13.2021 Kevin Wasbauer // Shearwater Sailing: A New Charter Business in Monterey - Ep. 85 Kevin Wasbauer is an experienced sailor, having competed in the Fastnet, the Heineken Regatta, the Transpac and many other races. In 2020 he purchased a Farr 53 named Atalanta and refit her during the pandemic in order to launch a ...
11.28.2021 Sid Shaw // Shipwrecked in the South China Sea - Ep. 84 In 1967, my father Sidney Shaw was shipwrecked on a small reef just south of Vietnam while sailing aboard an 87-foot steel schooner named Dante Deo. The crew of seven, including a young child, were attempting to navigate the reef ...
11.08.2021 Bianca Bahman & Fernanda Schlender // Shipwrecked in Indonesia - Ep. 83 When Bianca Bahman and Fernanda Schlender, two Bay Area women decided to go on a surfing trip in Indonesia together they had no idea what kind of adventure they were in for. The small boat carrying them to the island ...
10.24.2021 Erden Eruç // Rowing The Pacific On The Way To Everest - Ep. 82 Erden Eruç is an accomplished ocean rower who is the first person to complete a solo circumnavigation by human power and the first to row the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. In the spring of 2021 he launched his boat ...
10.05.2021 Ryan Foland // Good Jibes: A New Sailing Podcast from Latitude 38 - Ep. 81 Ryan Foland, together with John Arndt, the Publisher of Latitude 38, recently launched a new sailing podcast called Good Jibes. The podcast, hosted by multiple members of the crew at Latitude 38, features stories and tips from west coast sailors ...
09.14.2021 Sid & Rebecca Shaw // Cruising Together for Over 50 Years - Ep. 80 My parents, Sid and Rebecca Shaw have been sailing together for over 50 years. Starting in the 60s as a newlywed couple aboard their 33-foot ferro-cement ketch and then later aboard their 35-foot Hallberg-Rassy, they cruised all around the world. ...
08.30.2021 Lin Pardey // Stories from a Lifetime of Sailing & Advice for Getting Out There Now - Ep. 79 When Lin met Larry Pardey in Newport Beach in 1965 he was just starting to build Seraffyn a 24.4-foot Lyle Hess designed cutter. The two quickly became inseparable and went on to sail more than 200,000 miles together, circumnavigating twice. ...
08.16.2021 Lauren Keane // Similarities and Differences Between Cruising And Back Country Hiking - Ep. 78 My wife Lauren Keane and I share a love of adventure. I brought sailing to the marriage. She introduced me to long-distance, back-country hiking. To celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary, we traversed the High Sierra Trail, a 72-mile hike across ...
08.02.2021 Marga Pretorius // Finding the Right Tools for Cruising and Living Life - Ep. 77 Marga Pretorius stumbled into sailing while a freshman at UC Berkeley and quickly realized if she wanted to head off towards the horizon on her own boat one day she’d need to learn how to fix all things nautical. Work ...
07.19.2021 Jim Diepenbrock // Dismasted While Racing a Swan 48 - Ep. 76 In March of 2021, during the Corinthian Yacht Club Midwinter race, Jim Diepenbrock was dismasted while sailing his Swan 48, Wingman 5. It was a dangerous situation, but Jim handled it with a calm demeanor that allowed him to get ...
06.28.2021 Barry Walton // Reaching Reality: 3 Friends Sail a Small Boat to Mexico - Ep. 75 Roughly 15 years ago, Barry Walton and two of his surfing buddies bought a 24-foot sailboat, sailed it out the Golden Gate, turned left, and spent months sailing down the coast to Mexico. Though the trip wasn’t at all what ...
06.14.2021 Noelle Brewin & Laura Levy // Starting Somand: Sailing Apparel for Women - Ep. 74 Noelle Brewin and Laura Levy met while sailing on San Francisco Bay. They bonded over a desire to create quality sailing apparel for women. Together the recently started Somand and launched the Farallon Jacket with an anatomical cut, and many ...
05.30.2021 Cyril Derreumaux // Kayaking Solo from SF to Hawaii - Ep. 73 Cyril Derreumaux is attempting to solo paddle his kayak across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Hawaii. French-born, Cyril now lives and began paddling here in the Bay Area about a decade ago. Since then, he’s raced the Moloka’i ...
05.17.2021 Brady & Blue // Cruising SV Delos to Cruisers Academy in Tahoe - Ep. 72 Brady Trautman and Alex Blue are a filmmaking and sailing due who met cruising on SV Delos. For the moment, they’ve left the high seas and are starting a new adventure on Lake Tahoe - a sailing school called the ...
05.03.2021 Ron Elliot // Close Encounters with Great White Sharks - Ep. 71 Ron Elliot probably has more close encounters with great white sharks than nearly any other person. Ron is a retired urchin diver who has spent countless hours underwater at the Farallon Islands. He continues to dive at the Farallons, even ...
04.26.2021 Brooks Watson // Sailing on Clubhouse & Watts on Water - Ep. 70 Brooks Watson started sailing about a year ago. But he’s jumped in with both feet, not only getting out on the water, but building a new community for sailors on the Clubhouse social media platform and launching a non-profit, Watts ...
04.12.2021 James Dilworth // Big Adventures in Small Boats - Ep. 69 James Dilworth is a sailor and boat builder. He built a 17-foot catamaran, strapped it to the roof of his car, took it down to Mexico and spent time exploring the Sea of Cortez. Once, in a challenge from the ...
03.29.2021 Joe Balderrama // SF Bay Singlehanded Sailing Society - Ep. 68 Joe Balderrama loves the feeling of sailing alone - and he’s done a lot of it both in the San Francisco Bay and across oceans. He’s currently the Commodore of the San Francisco Bay Singlehanded Sailing Society. We talk about ...
03.15.2021 Ryan Finn Update // The Whole Story of the Hull Hole - Ep. 67 In January, Ryan Finn left New York on a single-handed, non-stop passage to San Francisco around Cape Horn - a feat that’s never been done. But only a day out from shore he heard a bang and found a gaping ...
03.08.2021 Mike Scheck // Scanmar & Getting Into the Business of Sailing - Ep. 66 Mike Scheck is President of Scanmar International, the Bay Area company best known for making the Monitor Windvane. A long-time Bay sailor, Mike took over the company from founder Hans Bernwall in 2014. Scanmar actually sells a few different windvane ...
02.22.2021 Graham Balch // Promoting an Electric Revolution on the Water - Ep. 65 Graham Balch is the Managing Broker at Green Yachts - a new brokerage in San Rafael that is dedicated to selling, servicing and promoting electric boats. He shares with me the latest advances in electric propulsion and other green technology ...
02.08.2021 Kimball Livingston // Writing and Racing in SF and Around the World - Ep. 64 Kimball Livingston covered sailing for the San Francisco Chronicle for fourteen years. He then moved to a position as the West Coast Editor for Sail Magazine. His assignments took him around the globe and had him covering everything from local ...
01.25.2021 Ernie Koepf // Going to Sea for Solace, Affirmation, and a Living - Ep. 63 Ernie Koepf has seen the many sides and many eras of commercial fishing on the west coast. He grew up fishing with his family out of Half Moon Bay, and took to the life, buying his own boat to search ...
01.18.2021 Ryan Finn // Attempting a Record: Sailing Solo, Non-Stop from NY to SF - Ep. 62 Ryan Finn grew up sailing with his family in the Gulf of Mexico. At 19 he was diagnosed with non-hodgkin's lymphoma and while undergoing cancer treatment he became fascinated by single-handed sailing. Today, Finn has successfully completed three Trans-Atlantic and ...
01.04.2021 Linda Newland // Fastest Woman Across the Pacific Single-Handed - Ep. 61 Linda Newland has devoted a good part of her life to expanding the presence of women in the sailing. She is an accomplished sailor herself, having done numerous single-handed races, including multiple San Francisco to Hawaii Transpacs. She holds the ...
12.21.2020 Jeff Cote // Enabling Dreams through Marine Electrical Systems - Ep. 60 Jeff Cote is the founder and owner of Pacific Yacht Systems. He and his staff provide custom marine electrical solutions for boaters. He thinks of his work less as providing a service and more as enabling dreams. He started the ...
12.07.2020 Lisa Chapin Bullett // Sharing the Joy of Sailing with Others - Ep. 59 Lisa Chapin Bullett Grew up sailing sunfish off the beach in Florida. Later, while living in Texas, she jumped to sailing bigger boats thanks to a program called SailTime in which members share boat access. Today, after cruising the East ...
11.23.2020 Will & Sarah Curry // Crossing Oceans while Running a Business - Ep. 58 Will Curry grew up cruising with his family in desolation Sound, Sarah didn’t. But she did grow up reading about families that were out cruising and longed to do it herself. So it’s not a surprise that on their very ...
11.02.2020 Tim Henry // Dredging Up Great Stories on San Francisco’s Waterfront - Ep. 57 Tim Henry is a man of many talents. He’s a sailor, a surfer, a windsurfer, a journalist, and an artist. Until recently Tim was Managing Editor at Latitude 38 and he’s uncovered some great stories for the magazine covering the ...
10.20.2020 Clark Beek // Being Run Over By A Container Ship & Other Adventures - Ep. 56 In 1999, at age 29, Clark Beek sailed out of Newport Harbor aboard his 40-foot Ketch on what he thought would be a year-long cruise. Ten years later he sailed into San Francisco, bringing with him stories of being torn ...
10.04.2020 Philippe Jamotte // Tackling a Record-Breaking Circumnavigation Not Long After Learning To Sail - Ep. 55 Philippe Jamotte took up sailing in 2013. In October 2020, he departed San Francisco trying to set a new record for the fastest westward solo, non-stop circumnavigation in a boat under 40 feet. He’s not one to do things by ...
09.25.2020 Wilbur Spaul // Sailing to Hawaii in 9-foot Sailboat Named Chubby Girl - Ep. 54 Wilbur Spaul has been sailing since the 70s. For over 40 years he’s dreamed of crossing oceans in a tiny boat. On September 27, 2020 he will leave Berkeley, head out the Golden Gate and attempt a record breaking sail ...
09.21.2020 Ronnie Simpson // From Fallujah to Fiji with Many Ocean Miles In-between - Ep. 53 Ronnie Simpson was badly injured when hit by a rocket propelled grenade in Iraq. After coming home he discovered sailing as an exciting new way to explore the world. Since taking to the water, he’s raced solo to Hawaii, lost ...
09.08.2020 SV Avocet: Chris & Marissa Neely // A Talented Young Couple Refit a Beautiful Old Boat - Ep. 52 Chris Neely grew up sailing on San Francisco bay, but met Marissa in the mountains where he taught her to sail on Huntington Lake. Not long after graduating college the two bought a 1979 Cheoy Lee 41, SV Avocet, which ...
08.24.2020 Tor Johnson // The Challenges and Dangers of Sailing Photography - Ep. 51 Tor Johnson first set sail as a child in the 1970s, cruising across the pacific with his parents and older brother and sister. It was during these travels that a friend gave him a camera, hooking him on photography. Today ...
08.10.2020 Martin Machado // Making Art on Boats from 26 to 900 Feet - Ep. 50 Martin Machado is a visual artist who finds inspiration form the sea and the people who work it. His paintings and drawings reflect the stories, landscapes and people he encounters when he sails his small boat in the California Delta, ...
07.27.2020 The Franz Family // Cruising Mexico in a 68-foot, Aluminum Boat - Ep. 49 Patrick and Tara Franz, and their son Everest, started sailing about five years ago after moving to the Bay Area. It wasn’t long afterwards they started thinking about living aboard and cruising to distant destinations. The boat they've chosen for ...

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Out The Gate Sailing episodes:

Brady & Blue // Buying a Boat w Bitcoin & Surviving a Tsunami - Ep. 98

Mark Hensley // From Sailing Sunfish to Commanding Tankers - Ep. 97

Jim Antrim // Designing & Racing an Eclectic Portfolio of Sailboats - Ep. 96

Matt Rutherford // From SF to Japan in a 30-foot Daysailer - Ep. 95

Cameron Albin // Going to Sea to Heal War Wounds - Ep. 94

Billy & Sierra Swezey // Tula’s Endless Summer Marches on From Boat to Boat - Ep. 93

Tyler Walkey & Julia Sinusia // An Offshore Passage Days After Buying a Boat - Ep. 92

Alex Kleeman & Lauren Sloss / Adventures Far and Near on a Valiant 32 - Ep. 91

Jack Patton & Sonya David / Two the Horizon on a Passport 42 - Ep. 90

Michael Robertson / Cruising while Running a Sailing Magazine - Ep. 89

Bekah Lane & Kathi George / Whale Strikes and Entanglements in the SF Bay - Ep. 88

Cree Partridge / Racer, Boatbuilder, Owner of Berkeley Marine Center - Ep. 87

Ben Pedersen-Wedlock & Anna Behrens // Circumnavigating the Americas in an Engineless Boat - Ep. 86

Kevin Wasbauer // Shearwater Sailing: A New Charter Business in Monterey - Ep. 85

Sid Shaw // Shipwrecked in the South China Sea - Ep. 84

Bianca Bahman & Fernanda Schlender // Shipwrecked in Indonesia - Ep. 83

Erden Eruç // Rowing The Pacific On The Way To Everest - Ep. 82

Ryan Foland // Good Jibes: A New Sailing Podcast from Latitude 38 - Ep. 81

Sid & Rebecca Shaw // Cruising Together for Over 50 Years - Ep. 80

Lin Pardey // Stories from a Lifetime of Sailing & Advice for Getting Out There Now - Ep. 79

Lauren Keane // Similarities and Differences Between Cruising And Back Country Hiking - Ep. 78

Marga Pretorius // Finding the Right Tools for Cruising and Living Life - Ep. 77

Jim Diepenbrock // Dismasted While Racing a Swan 48 - Ep. 76

Barry Walton // Reaching Reality: 3 Friends Sail a Small Boat to Mexico - Ep. 75

Noelle Brewin & Laura Levy // Starting Somand: Sailing Apparel for Women - Ep. 74

Cyril Derreumaux // Kayaking Solo from SF to Hawaii - Ep. 73

Brady & Blue // Cruising SV Delos to Cruisers Academy in Tahoe - Ep. 72

Ron Elliot // Close Encounters with Great White Sharks - Ep. 71

Brooks Watson // Sailing on Clubhouse & Watts on Water - Ep. 70

James Dilworth // Big Adventures in Small Boats - Ep. 69

Joe Balderrama // SF Bay Singlehanded Sailing Society - Ep. 68

Ryan Finn Update // The Whole Story of the Hull Hole - Ep. 67

Mike Scheck // Scanmar & Getting Into the Business of Sailing - Ep. 66

Graham Balch // Promoting an Electric Revolution on the Water - Ep. 65

Kimball Livingston // Writing and Racing in SF and Around the World - Ep. 64

Ernie Koepf // Going to Sea for Solace, Affirmation, and a Living - Ep. 63

Ryan Finn // Attempting a Record: Sailing Solo, Non-Stop from NY to SF - Ep. 62

Linda Newland // Fastest Woman Across the Pacific Single-Handed - Ep. 61

Jeff Cote // Enabling Dreams through Marine Electrical Systems - Ep. 60

Lisa Chapin Bullett // Sharing the Joy of Sailing with Others - Ep. 59

Will & Sarah Curry // Crossing Oceans while Running a Business - Ep. 58

Tim Henry // Dredging Up Great Stories on San Francisco’s Waterfront - Ep. 57

Clark Beek // Being Run Over By A Container Ship & Other Adventures - Ep. 56

Philippe Jamotte // Tackling a Record-Breaking Circumnavigation Not Long After Learning To Sail - Ep. 55

Wilbur Spaul // Sailing to Hawaii in 9-foot Sailboat Named Chubby Girl - Ep. 54

Ronnie Simpson // From Fallujah to Fiji with Many Ocean Miles In-between - Ep. 53

SV Avocet: Chris & Marissa Neely // A Talented Young Couple Refit a Beautiful Old Boat - Ep. 52

Tor Johnson // The Challenges and Dangers of Sailing Photography - Ep. 51

Martin Machado // Making Art on Boats from 26 to 900 Feet - Ep. 50

The Franz Family // Cruising Mexico in a 68-foot, Aluminum Boat - Ep. 49