Richard Clark is undoubtably one of the most successful male sailors in Canadian history 4X Olympian in the Finn and Star class (with Crew Tyler Bjorn), 2x Melges 24 world champion Member of Illbruck winner of the 2001 Volvo ocean race, Winner of Sail Canada's Gerry Roufs award as well as Male Athelete of the year and Rolex sailor of the year. This rollicking interview covered olympic anxiety, offshore glory and the real reason for the anti banana superstition!

Richard Clark is undoubtably one of the most successful male sailors in Canadian history 4X Olympian in the Finn and Star class (with Crew Tyler Bjorn), 2x Melges 24 world champion Member of Illbruck winner of the 2001 Volvo ocean race, Winner of Sail Canada's Gerry Roufs award as well as Male Athelete of the year and Rolex sailor of the year. This rollicking interview covered olympic anxiety, offshore glory and the real reason for the anti banana superstition!

Since year one of the podcast I've been presenting the Whitecap Cup as an award to sailing programs that serve the outsiders of our sailing communities, those without access to the sport we love, or simply a program that doesn't fit nicely into our regular yacht club structure. Previous winners were the broader reach program in Armdale NS, SaskSailing, and the broad reach program in Toronto. This year I'm pleased to present the 2024 Whitecap Cup for greatness in alternative sailing programs to the Nova Scotia Mobile Sailing school.

The Nova Scotia Mobile Sailing School offers communities across Nova Scotia the opportunity to introduce sailing to places that don't have their own learn to sail programs.

To explain the program and accept the award are Executive Director of Sail Nova Scotia Frank Dennis and Sophia Josenhans, technical director of Sail Nova Scotia.

Today we're counting down the top 10 Canadian sailing stories of 2024 with John Morris, online editor of Canadian Boating and curator of Sailing In Canada (sailingincanada.ca). Featuring: AC40's, Sail GP, Olympics, Canadian Sailing hall of fame Class of 2024, a special section on grassroots races you've never heard of, and of course the winner of the 3rd annual Whitecap Cup for greatness in alternative sailing programs (GRASP).

#1 Halifax pulls off an amazing Sail GP event

#2 Canadian Sailors at the Paris Games

#3 Team Concord Pacific Youth and Women's America's Cup

#4 Sail GP Canada new owner Dr. Greg Bailey of Juvenescence and new skipper Giles Scott

#5 Canadian sailing Hall of Fame Class of 2024

#6 Olympic qualifiers

#7 Carlos Charabati wins ILCA 4 worlds

#8 Sullivan Nakatsu 10th at World Youth championships.

#9 Grass roots events you've never heard of: Lowisa, Race To Kingston, Aylesford Lake National One Design class boats, Guelph Lake Palm D'Or)

#10 Whitecap Cup goes to…Sail Nova Scotia's Mobile Sailing School!

Today we're talking to Northstar Sail GP's flight Controller Billy Gooderham! After season 4, things were looking a little grim for the future of Canada's Sail GP team. They had lost a 2025 regatta in Canada, there were questions about ownership, and there had been radio silence from the social media sites. On November 6th that all changed when the team came roaring back with a new owner (Dr. Greg Bailey of biotech company Juvenescence), new skipper (2 time olympic gold medalist Giles Scott!) and a confirmation of an event in Canada in 2026 (gotta be Halifax, right?).

We talked about the hopes for the new season, life at the start line for an F50 flight controller, and the new T foils he tested which should lead to even faster speeds for Season 5!!

Canada's first foray in the Americas cup since 1987! Concord Pacific, out of the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club assembled entries into the youth and (FIRST EVER) women's America's Cup that took place in Barcelona. I spoke to return guest Isabella Bertold, skipper of the women's team, as well as Andrew Wood and Georgia Lewin LaFrance from the youth team!

Annie Haeger is winner of US sailing's 2015 Yachtswoman of the year, a youth worlds silver medalist in, US women's college sailor of the year, and she placed 7th at the Olympics in the 470 in Rio, she is currently the chief strategist and Co pilot for Sail GP CANADA.

After a bitter end to her olympic dream, and two years not sailing at all, she was able rediscove the fun in sailing through foiling, and ultimately back to the high performance world!

This was a great conversation including tips on seeing wind lines for lake sailing perspectives on US college sailing and an in depth look at the strategist's role on Sail GP.

Drew and I taked sailmaking, distance sailing, the bluenose one design and of course all thinggs CHESTER RACE WEEK!

Drew grew up sailing at the Lunenburg Yacht Club in Nova Scotia. He has raced on and coached high performance one design sailboats for over 20 years. He managed the North Sails Vancouver loft for over a decade and has recently moved back to Nova Scotia picking up a dream job of buying North Sails Atlantic! Drew races in the many of the biggest high performance keelboat fleets, highlights include the Farr 30 North Americans and Melges 24 PNW championship.. In distance racing his experience includes winning the Van Isle 360, racing the 2017 Transpac on a TP 52, Vipodium finishes in the Chicago-Mackinac Race, Victoria to Maui(podium) transpacific race. He was part of Team Canada for the 2023 Star Sailor League as trimmer. He has been a North U coach for the last 10 years working with sailors on and off the water from across North America to refine their racing skills.

Ryan Kelly is the CEO of Sail Canada. Ryan is a lifelong sailor, having worked in support of the sea cadets program, president of Sail Newfoundland and Labrador and as a Sail Canada learning facilitator. He's been a dinghy coach, skiff sailor and is presently developing his chops as an offshore racer. Our conversation was wide ranging, covering the development off Canadian Olympic hopefuls, improving the growth of the sport from coast to coast to coast, and of course the glories of sailing in Newfoundland's Conception Bay!