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- Sailing in the Mediterranean Ep. 82 Skip Strong and Twain Braden authors of “In Peril” Pt 1In this podcast I interview Captain Skip Strong and Twain Braden of:In Peril: A Daring Decision, a Captain's Resolve, and the Salvage that Made HistoryWhen Skip Strong, the thirty-two-year-old Captain of the 688-foot oil tanker Cherry Valley received the call, all he knew was that an ocean going tug with five men aboard was in distress off Florida's east coast. Caught in an unusually powerful storm, the tug's engines failed, and as the winds gusted to more than sixty miles per hour and the sea whipped into a frenzy, the tug--and the barge it was towing-- were in danger of being swept ashore. Captain Strong also knew that he would follow the age-old tradition of sea rescue. Coming to the aid of the crew, the tug, and its cargo, he would have to maneuver his ship--laden with 10 million gallons of oil-- in extremely hazardous conditions. One mistake and Strong would be responsible for an ecological disaster on Florida's beaches equal to that of the Exxon Valdez. What Captain Strong didn't know was that the tug was carrying a 150-foot aluminum fuel cell worth upwards of $50 million. And that in the instant he decided to rescue the tug and its crew, he was opening the door on a dramatic and tense legal struggle that would pit him against the United States Government for salvage rights.The tug South Bend arriving and trying to take over (Photo courtesy of Skip Strong)J.A. Orgeron and Poseidon under tow (Photo courtesy of Skip Strong)Here is a link to this very enjoyable sea adventure story!http://www.amazon.com/In-Peril-Decision-Captains-Resolve-ebook/dp/B00IQBEEG6Twain Braden is also the aithor of another book of possible interest!http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Guide-Sailing-Seamanship-ebook/dp/B00CYRHMLC/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1449773180&sr=1-2My friends over at the podcast Keep Your Day Dream (http://www.KeepYourDaydream.com) put out a cool video I thought I would share:Sailing! Learn to Sail: Basic Keelboat Certification Lessons for the ASA 101 ExamPrice $29.99If you're interested in my sailing instructional audio series here are the links:Sailing! Learn to Sail: Basic Keelboat Certification Lessons for the ASA 101 Examhttps://gumroad.com/l/EiigSailing! Learn to Sail: Basic Coastal Cruising; Lessons for the ASA 103 Examhttps://gumroad.com/l/PvOYKSailing! Learn To Sail: Bareboat Cruising Certification Lessons for the ASA 104 Examhttps://gumroad.com/l/bwXhSailing in the Mediterranean Websitehttp://www.medsailor.comIf you would like to be a guest or have suggestions for future episodes or if you would like Franz to be a speaker at your Sailing Club or fundraiser please feel free to contact me.©2015 Franz Amussen all rights reserved1 hr
- Sailing in the Mediterranean Episode 82 Luis Martins on Rebuilding a BoatBoat building in Portugal with Luis MartinsThis week I interview Louis Martins a listener and boat builder located in Lisbon Portugal.Learn about the pleasure of rebuilding an older boat! His website is http://sailingscally.comSailing! Learn to Sail: Basic Keelboat Certification Lessons for the ASA 101 ExamPrice $29.99If you're interested in my sailing instructional audio series here are the links:Sailing! Learn to Sail: Basic Keelboat Certification Lessons for the ASA 101 Examhttps://gumroad.com/l/EiigSailing! Learn to Sail: Basic Coastal Cruising; Lessons for the ASA 103 Examhttps://gumroad.com/l/PvOYKSailing! Learn To Sail: Bareboat Cruising Certification Lessons for the ASA 104 Examhttps://gumroad.com/l/bwXhSailing in the Mediterranean Websitehttps://www.medsailor.comIf you would like to be a guest or have suggestions for future episodes or if you would like Franz to be a speaker at your Sailing Club or fundraiser please feel free to contact me.©2015 Franz Amussen all rights reserved1 hr 13 min
- Sailing in the Mediterranean Episode 82 Luis Martins on Rebuilding a BoatBoat building in Portugal with Luis MartinsThis week I interview Louis Martins a listener and boat builder located in Lisbon Portugal.Learn about the pleasure of rebuilding an older boat! His website is http://sailingscally.comSailing! Learn to Sail: Basic Keelboat Certification Lessons for the ASA 101 ExamPrice $29.99If you're interested in my sailing instructional audio series here are the links:Sailing! Learn to Sail: Basic Keelboat Certification Lessons for the ASA 101 Examhttps://gumroad.com/l/EiigSailing! Learn to Sail: Basic Coastal Cruising; Lessons for the ASA 103 Examhttps://gumroad.com/l/PvOYKSailing! Learn To Sail: Bareboat Cruising Certification Lessons for the ASA 104 Examhttps://gumroad.com/l/bwXhSailing in the Mediterranean Websitehttp://www.medsailor.comIf you would like to be a guest or have suggestions for future episodes or if you would like Franz to be a speaker at your Sailing Club or fundraiser please feel free to contact me.©2015 Franz Amussen all rights reserved1 hr 13 min
- Sailing in the Mediterranean Episode 81 Paul Michele of NavionicsIn this interview I talk with Paul Michele National Sales Manager of Navionics. We discuss the great phone navigation apps that I have used and the other products Navionics is offeringhttp://www.navionics.com/enPaul Michele has worked for Navionics for the last seven years. He has background experience as sales and marketing managers over the last twenty years within the marine and fishing industry. Paul is an avid boater, kayaker, fisherman and competes in various related lifestyle events.Sailing! Learn To Sail: Bareboat Cruising Certification Lessons for the ASA 104 ExamPrice $29.99https://gumroad.com/l/bwXh8 Hours 10 Minutes: 23 Lessons audio courseIf you're interested in my sailing instructional audio series here are the links:Sailing! Learn to Sail: Basic Keelboat Certification Lessons for the ASA 101 Examhttps://gumroad.com/l/EiigSailing! Learn to Sail: Basic Coastal Cruising; Lessons for the ASA 103 Examhttps://gumroad.com/l/PvOYKSailing! Learn To Sail: Bareboat Cruising Certification Lessons for the ASA 104 Examhttps://gumroad.com/l/bwXhSailing in the Mediterranean Websitehttps://www.medsailor.comIf you would like to be a guest or have suggestions for future episodes or if you would like Franz to be a speaker at your Sailing Club or fundraiser please feel free to contact me.©2015 Franz Amussen all rights reserved37 min
- Sailing in the Mediterranean Episode 81 Paul Michele of NavionicsIn this interview I talk with Paul Michele National Sales Manager of Navionics. We discuss the great phone navigation apps that I have used and the other products Navionics is offeringhttp://www.navionics.com/enPaul Michele has worked for Navionics for the last seven years. He has background experience as sales and marketing managers over the last twenty years within the marine and fishing industry. Paul is an avid boater, kayaker, fisherman and competes in various related lifestyle events.Sailing! Learn To Sail: Bareboat Cruising Certification Lessons for the ASA 104 ExamPrice $29.99https://gumroad.com/l/bwXh8 Hours 10 Minutes: 23 Lessons audio courseIf you're interested in my sailing instructional audio series here are the links:Sailing! Learn to Sail: Basic Keelboat Certification Lessons for the ASA 101 Examhttps://gumroad.com/l/EiigSailing! Learn to Sail: Basic Coastal Cruising; Lessons for the ASA 103 Examhttps://gumroad.com/l/PvOYKSailing! Learn To Sail: Bareboat Cruising Certification Lessons for the ASA 104 Examhttps://gumroad.com/l/bwXhSailing in the Mediterranean Websitehttp://www.medsailor.comIf you would like to be a guest or have suggestions for future episodes or if you would like Franz to be a speaker at your Sailing Club or fundraiser please feel free to contact me.©2015 Franz Amussen all rights reserved37 min
- Sailing in the Mediterranean Episode 80 Sarita ArmstrongSailing! Learn to Sail: Basic Keelboat Certification Lessons for the ASA 101 Exam Price $29.99Interview with Sarita Armstrong Author of The Baggywrinkle Cookbook:http://www.saritaarmstrong.comThe Baggywrinkle CookbookThe charming stories in this book take us from one end of the Mediterranean to the other as we follow Captain Bill Baggywrinkle (‘Baggy’ to his friends) on his leisurely way over the sea, learning to cook for himself and for his friends along the way.Cooking on a boat does not have to be all tins and packet soup. Starting from simple beginnings the recipes progress to quite sophisticated cooking, but the Tips and Techniques help you along the way. Some recipes are new, some are old favourites but all are tried and tested. If they can be cooked on a boat they can be cooked in a caravan or in any small kitchen where space and equipment is at a premium.The author spent over 20 years living on sailing boats in the Mediterranean, firstly on her own 26ft catamaran which she sailed mostly single-handed from Spain to Turkey; then on 60ft sailing yachts, often catering for charterers. She now lives on a barge in France. Prior to sailing, she owned her own restaurant for twelve years in Devon.About Sarita from her website:An early memory is of flying to Kenya where my father’s work had taken him. I was four years old and in those days the flight took three days, stopping at Cairo and Khartoum where the smell of hot desert air seemed strangely familiar. We returned three years later by ship to Venice then drove our old Citroën home to England – quite an adventure in the early 1950s.On reflection, failing to get a place at University was a blessing in disguise, for instead of my way of thinking being moulded to the common norm, my mind has been able to expand in some quite unusual directions. At eighteen I headed off for India to work with Tibetan refugees. The contact with Freda Bedi and her school for young Lamas where I would be working was made by my mother who was one of the early Western Buddhists. Whilst I was there I helped to found the first nunnery for refugee Tibetan Buddhist nuns in India, and taught English to the younger Incarnate Lamas. On my return I continued to work with the Tibetans in the U.K.Married life and earning a living amongst people with little interest beyond the material gave me a good grounding to balance the esoteric side in which I had been immersed. We had moved to Devon and old buildings were renovated, a restaurant created, and a local Inn developed out of my grandfather’s old Devon longhouse. Rare breeds of sheep were kept as a side line. In the early 1980s my first husband and I separated and I left England, healing my wounds on the beaches of Sri Lanka and sailing as crew on a yacht from South Africa to Brazil.Six years were spent sailing my own small catamaran in the Mediterranean, where I met my second husband. We continued to earn a simple living on sailing yachts, living on board for twenty years then retiring to the foothills of the Taurus Mountains of Turkey. There we restored an old village house and built a new one nearby on farmland where we kept horses. During this time we managed a number of extended visits to Egypt, Asia,56 min
- Sailing in the Mediterranean Episode 80 Sarita ArmstrongSailing! Learn to Sail: Basic Keelboat Certification Lessons for the ASA 101 Exam Price $29.99Interview with Sarita Armstrong Author of The Baggywrinkle Cookbook:http://www.saritaarmstrong.comThe Baggywrinkle CookbookThe charming stories in this book take us from one end of the Mediterranean to the other as we follow Captain Bill Baggywrinkle (‘Baggy’ to his friends) on his leisurely way over the sea, learning to cook for himself and for his friends along the way.Cooking on a boat does not have to be all tins and packet soup. Starting from simple beginnings the recipes progress to quite sophisticated cooking, but the Tips and Techniques help you along the way. Some recipes are new, some are old favourites but all are tried and tested. If they can be cooked on a boat they can be cooked in a caravan or in any small kitchen where space and equipment is at a premium.The author spent over 20 years living on sailing boats in the Mediterranean, firstly on her own 26ft catamaran which she sailed mostly single-handed from Spain to Turkey; then on 60ft sailing yachts, often catering for charterers. She now lives on a barge in France. Prior to sailing, she owned her own restaurant for twelve years in Devon.About Sarita from her website:An early memory is of flying to Kenya where my father’s work had taken him. I was four years old and in those days the flight took three days, stopping at Cairo and Khartoum where the smell of hot desert air seemed strangely familiar. We returned three years later by ship to Venice then drove our old Citroën home to England – quite an adventure in the early 1950s.On reflection, failing to get a place at University was a blessing in disguise, for instead of my way of thinking being moulded to the common norm, my mind has been able to expand in some quite unusual directions. At eighteen I headed off for India to work with Tibetan refugees. The contact with Freda Bedi and her school for young Lamas where I would be working was made by my mother who was one of the early Western Buddhists. Whilst I was there I helped to found the first nunnery for refugee Tibetan Buddhist nuns in India, and taught English to the younger Incarnate Lamas. On my return I continued to work with the Tibetans in the U.K.Married life and earning a living amongst people with little interest beyond the material gave me a good grounding to balance the esoteric side in which I had been immersed. We had moved to Devon and old buildings were renovated, a restaurant created, and a local Inn developed out of my grandfather’s old Devon longhouse. Rare breeds of sheep were kept as a side line. In the early 1980s my first husband and I separated and I left England, healing my wounds on the beaches of Sri Lanka and sailing as crew on a yacht from South Africa to Brazil.Six years were spent sailing my own small catamaran in the Mediterranean, where I met my second husband. We continued to earn a simple living on sailing yachts, living on board for twenty years then retiring to the foothills of the Taurus Mountains of Turkey. There we restored an old village house and built a new one nearby on farmland where we kept horses. During this time we managed a number of extended visits to Egypt, Asia, Mexico and India and with my mother I visited China when it first opened up to foreigners.I owe much to my mother with whom from my earliest days I discussed life, death and the meaning of it all; and to my father who was a saintly man though he adhered to no religion. I have always been interested in the origins of civilization, the migration of people and the interaction of cultures east and west.I write for my own pleasure and to get ideas clear in my head. I hope others may find some value in it.At present my husband and I are exploring the waterways of France, living on a converted Dutch barge: still traveling on!If you're interested in my sailing instructional audio series here are t...56 min
- Sailing in the Mediterranean Episode 79 Dan Culpepper Pt 3Sailing! Learn To Sail: Bareboat Cruising Certification Lessons for the ASA 104 ExamPrice $29.99https://gumroad.com/l/bwXh8 Hours 10 Minutes: 23 Lessons audio courseSailing in the Mediterranean Episode 78 Dan Culpepper Pt 2This is the third part of the interview with my friend Dan Culpepper after his epic voyage aboard sailing vessel Heldeleine across the Atlantic and into the Mediterranean. In This episode we make it from Menorca to Italy. I will post the next episode when we get a chance to catch up again in the next few weeks.While I was interviewing Dan I kept referring to his route which is outlined the live map link below.http://sailingheldeleine.com/live-map/If you're interested in my sailing instructional audio series here are the links:Sailing! Learn to Sail: Basic Keelboat Certification Lessons for the ASA 101 Examhttps://gumroad.com/l/EiigSailing! Learn to Sail: Basic Coastal Cruising; Lessons for the ASA 103 Examhttps://gumroad.com/l/PvOYKSailing! Learn To Sail: Bareboat Cruising Certification Lessons for the ASA 104 Examhttps://gumroad.com/l/bwXhSailing in the Mediterranean Websitehttps://www.medsailor.comIf you would like to be a guest or have suggestions for future episodes or if you would like Franz to be a speaker at your Sailing Club or fundraiser please feel free to contact me.©2015 Franz Amussen all rights reserved1 hr 13 min
- Sailing in the Mediterranean Episode 79 Dan Culpepper Pt 3Sailing! Learn To Sail: Bareboat Cruising Certification Lessons for the ASA 104 ExamPrice $29.99https://gumroad.com/l/bwXh8 Hours 10 Minutes: 23 Lessons audio courseSailing in the Mediterranean Episode 78 Dan Culpepper Pt 2This is the third part of the interview with my friend Dan Culpepper after his epic voyage aboard sailing vessel Heldeleine across the Atlantic and into the Mediterranean. In This episode we make it from Menorca to Italy. I will post the next episode when we get a chance to catch up again in the next few weeks.While I was interviewing Dan I kept referring to his route which is outlined the live map link below.http://sailingheldeleine.com/live-map/If you're interested in my sailing instructional audio series here are the links:Sailing! Learn to Sail: Basic Keelboat Certification Lessons for the ASA 101 Examhttps://gumroad.com/l/EiigSailing! Learn to Sail: Basic Coastal Cruising; Lessons for the ASA 103 Examhttps://gumroad.com/l/PvOYKSailing! Learn To Sail: Bareboat Cruising Certification Lessons for the ASA 104 Examhttps://gumroad.com/l/bwXhSailing in the Mediterranean Websitehttp://www.medsailor.comIf you would like to be a guest or have suggestions for future episodes or if you would like Franz to be a speaker at your Sailing Club or fundraiser please feel free to contact me.©2015 Franz Amussen all rights reserved1 hr 13 min
- Sailing in the Mediterranean Episode 78 Dan Culpepper Pt 2Sailing! Learn To Sail: Bareboat Cruising Certification Lessons for the ASA 104 ExamPrice $29.99https://gumroad.com/l/bwXh8 Hours 10 Minutes: 23 Lessons audio courseSailing in the Mediterranean Episode 78 Dan Culpepper Pt 2This is the second part of the interview with my friend Dan Culpepper after his epic voyage aboard sailing vessel Heldeleine across the Atlantic and into the Mediterranean. This is the second part of a multi-part interview which does not even begin to scratch the surface of his experiences this past summer. I will post the next episode when we get a chance to catch up again in the next few weeks.While I was interviewing Dan I kept referring to his route which is outlined the live map link below.http://sailingheldeleine.com/live-map/If you're interested in my sailing instructional audio series here are the links:Sailing! Learn to Sail: Basic Keelboat Certification Lessons for the ASA 101 Examhttps://gumroad.com/l/EiigSailing! Learn to Sail: Basic Coastal Cruising; Lessons for the ASA 103 Examhttps://gumroad.com/l/PvOYKSailing! Learn To Sail: Bareboat Cruising Certification Lessons for the ASA 104 Examhttps://gumroad.com/l/bwXhSailing in the Mediterranean Websitehttps://www.medsailor.comIf you would like to be a guest or have suggestions for future episodes or if you would like Franz to be a speaker at your Sailing Club or fundraiser please feel free to contact me.1 hr 3 min
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