The Ancient Mariners Sailing Podcast

The Ancient Mariners Sailing Podcast

By Andrew LamingLeisure
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The Ancient Mariners Sailing Podcast episodes

  • The magic of wooden ships

    This week Andy and Brad’s guest is classic boat enthusiast, Jess Clay. In just seven years since a sailing epiphany aboard a boat opened Jess’s eyes to the magic of sailing, she has sailed on a huge number of wooden vessels from Luke Powell’s Pilot Cutter Amelie Rose to the coastal ketch Bessie Ellen and many many others.


    Jess is active in campaigning to make sailing more welcoming to women, and co-founded Balancing the Boat, a support network for female sailors.


    She is South West rep for Women in Boat Building, has her own podcast offwatchpodcast.co.uk/ and works as Business Operations Coordinator for Classic Sailing.

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    56 min
  • The further adventures of the Spirit of Gaia
    Hanneke Boon is back to talk about what she and her 64ft Wharram catamaran, Spirit of Gaia, have been doing since their return voyage to Falmouth this summer, in time to take part in Falmouth Classics.

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    56 min
  • The BradZAB
    The wind did blow but mainly from behind, and so it was that Brad and crew Phil made it back from the Açores in 11 days in time for chips at the 'front. With Andrew helping with weather routing along the way. Bertie the dog was very pleased to see him, and so was I as it was definitely his round! Anyway I hope you enjoy this rather free-form episode about Brad's epic voyage back to the land of Saints and tin.

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    48 min
  • The ancient harbour of Penryn
    This week Andrew welcomes Adrian Grigg, shipwright and Chair of Penryn Stakeholders Group and Tom Blakemore, the Penryn Harbour Master to the studio to talk about the ancient harbour of Penryn and initiatives to improve this part of the river and represent the water users based there, from the marine businesses to the live-aboard residents and the mooring holders.

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    45 min
  • Sun very very Fast 3300!
    Here is the second of Andrew's interviews in Kinsale with competitors in the Yachting Monthly Celtic Triangle Race. While a storm breaks over the harbour bound fleet, Chris takes us on a tour of his formidable boat Rockit. The SunFast 3300 is the go to boat for serious offshore short handed racing and Chris who retired following a health scare has thrown himself into making this boat the best it can be, it's truly a stunning machine and I hope this boat tour brings it to life. Chris is a fantastic chap to chat to about sailing so I hope you enjoy this episode.

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    43 min
  • Blathering with the Boat Butler
    This week Brad is still away cruising, meanwhile Andrew is port bound in Kinsale participating in the Celtic Triangle with fellow competitors including George Isted of the successful sailing YouTube channel Refit and Sail. Andrew nabbed George for a chat aboard his SJ320 to talk about solo sailing, YouTube and his day job as The Solent Boat Butler where he refits and repairs all manner of boats but with specialist knowledge and experience of the Contessa 32. We hope you enjoy the episode.

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    44 min
  • On the trail of Moby Dick and crossing the Celtic Sea
    This week Brad is away on his boat in Portugal after an eventful sail down the coastline from Spain. Andrew is about to head off racing. We hope you enjoy the episode.

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    30 min
  • In which Brad crosses Biscay and Andrew races to Roscoff
    A different episode this week as the cruisers goes cruising and the racer goes racing. Brad joins us from Muros in Spain after sailing single handed across Biscay on his Rustler 36. Andrew is just back from racing to Roscoff on the second race in the COGS Offshore Series.

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    25 min
  • Big boost for the AZAB 2027 (Azores and Back Race )
    This week Brad and Andrew are joined by one of the legends of offshore sailing, Pete Goss, and the race director of the AZAB Sarah Hancock to talk about preperations for the 2027 race. Pete is racing on a Dazcat, built in Plymouth, but despite his circumnavigations and famous exploits has never done the race before. Organisers are working to raise the profile of this classic Cat 1 Ocean Race and Pete is helping to give things a push along with his envolvment. We talk all things AZAB, about Pete's own dramatic rescue of Raphael Dinelli after his yacht sank in the South Atlantic, and about a forthcoming film about the rescue. Sarah talks about her own sailing story and how she got involved in the race.

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    59 min

About The Ancient Mariners Sailing Podcast

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A weekly sailing podcast about racing and cruising in and around Falmouth and Cornwall. Brad Osman is a keen cruising sailor who owns a Rustler 36, Andrew Laming is a keen racer with a Sigma 33 OOD.…