Out The Gate Sailing
Episodes
Michael & Anne Hartshorn // Cruising the World for Nearly 20 Years - Ep. 146
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I sit down with Michael and Anne Hartshorn, special friends with whom my family and I have been cruising for nearly the past two year...
Freeranger // Inspiring Citizen Science - Ep. 145
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I sit down with Duncan Copeland and Larissa Clark, a couple currently sailing the Pacific with their two children aboard their Bruce Farr designed Ben...
Nica & Jeremy Waters // Cruising Aboard Calypso - Ep. 144
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I sit down with Nica and Jeremy Waters, a couple cruising on their 28 foot Bristol Channel Cutter, Calypso. We met up on the north si...
Jasmine Harrison // Sailing a 19-ft Boat Around the Globe - Ep. 143
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At 21-years-old Jasmine Harrison became the youngest female to row solo across the Atlantic. A year later she set a record as the first woman to swim ...
Andy Schell // A Chance Encounter in Hiva Oa - Ep. 142
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Andy Schell of 59° North Sailing is no stranger to the Out The Gate podcast. We’d both been wanting to follow up on our last podcast conversation, ...
Shaw, Shaw, & Field // Pacific Passage Debrief - Ep. 141
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After completing a nearly 3,000 nautical mile passage from Banderas Bay, Mexico to the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia, my crew and I sit down t...
Mark Synnott // From Climbing to Sailing - Ep. 140
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Synnott is a professional rock climber and author. He’s climb many first ascents, written a multitude of National Geographic articles and simpl...
Kevin Boyle // Cruising in Your 20s - Ep. 139
06 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I met 23-year-old Kevin Boyle when he sailed into La Cruz Mexico aboard his Ericson 32 and I took his lines at the dock. Kevin stuck out in the sailin...
Tim Carden // Across the Pacific in a Trailerable Boat - Ep. 138
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Carden is not new to adventure, having ridden his motorcycle solo all over the world. But, he is relatively new to sailing and he’s planning an ...
Heather Richard // A Mother-Son Pac Cup Race - Ep. 137
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Heather Richard is a skilled sailor, an exceptional teacher, a great storyteller, and a kick-ass mother! As a high school graduation present for her s...
Raffi Patatian // Across the Pacific mostly Singlehanded - Ep. 136
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Raffi Patatian is one of the most conscientious, careful, and knowledgeable sailors I know. He set off for Mexico aboard his Hallberg Rassy 43, Wind R...
Jamie & Behan Gifford // Totem’s Next Chapter - Ep. 135
21 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jamie and Behan Gifford have been sailing their Stevens 47, Totem, around the world for more than a decade. They raised three children aboard but are ...
Jon Bilger // Predict Wind Founder - Ep. 134
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Bilger is the director and founder of PredictWind. Jon founded the company after working on forecasting for the Alinghi Americas Cup team. The tec...
John Taussig // Medical Training for Mariners - Ep. 133
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John Taussig is the founder and executive director of Backcountry Medical Guides and the subsidiary Maritime Medical Guides. He’s a career paramedic...
Michael Rohde // Rebuilding a Cape George 36 - Ep. 132
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Rohde is rebuilding - bow to stern, keel to masthead - a late 70s Cape George 36 named Akela. He welcomed me aboard the boat last August when ...
Andre Lay // Around the Americas by Trawler - Ep. 131
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Andre Lay is licensed Captain from the Bay Area who is in the process of circumnavigating North America in a compact trawler. He’s currently in Barr...
Scott Racette & Ashley Gremel // Bay to Bay: From San Francisco to Chesapeake - Ep. 130
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Racette and Ashley Gremel met sailing in San Francisco Bay in 2016. Five years later they sailed under the Golden Gate Bridge together aboard th...
Brendan Borrell // Paddling from Tulare Lake to SF Bay Headwaters - Ep. 129
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Brendan Borrell is a corespondent for Outside Magazine. Along with photographer Tom Fowlks, he recently paddled from the Central Valley of California ...
Dovka // A Boat and 3 Generations
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As my wife, two daughters and I prepare to move aboard and sail south aboard Dovka, our 1981 Hallberg Rassy 352, the four of us sit down with my paren...
Andy Schell // Finding Balance while Pushing Boundaries - Ep. 128
15 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andy Schell, along with his wife Mia Karlsson, founded the ocean sailing business 59 North to share the wisdom of the high seas. Lauren and I sailed w...
Pam Wall // The Joy of Sharing Sailing - Ep. 127
17 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pam Wall has encouraged and inspired so many individuals and families to find joy from sailing and cruising. She has spent decades sharing her knowled...
Isabel Lardner // Tall Ship Sailing - Ep. 126
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Isabel Lardner has sailed many miles on tall ships, something I’ve always dreamed of doing. She share stories of her time at sea and describes what ...
Mary SwiftSwan // Afterguard Sailing - Ep. 125
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mary SwiftSwan is the founder of Afterguard Sailing in Oakland. Afterguard is only one of the three sailing schools she’s founded. She began teachin...
Ryan May // May on the Bay Chartering - Ep. 124
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan May run’s his charter business, May on the Bay, out of Sausalito aboard his Catalina 34. A U.S. Coast Guard Captain, Ryan has logged over 25,00...
Leigh Hunt // Sailing: From Passion to Profession - Ep. 123
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Leigh Hunt is President and CEO of Modern Sailing school and club. Modern has been introducing people to sailing on SF Bay since 1983. In 2014, Leigh,...
Hank George // The Science of Lithium Batteries - Ep. 122
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hank George, of Blue Heron Battery, is an engineer who has a background working in the nuclear industry. Designing his own components, he was cruising...
Jim Hancock // Sailing Science Center Update - Ep. 121
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Years ago, Jim Hancock conceived of a hands-on, interactive learning center that would inspire a passion for sailing and science by delighting people ...
Satchel Douglas // Race to Alaska on a Wing Foil Board - Ep. 120
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Race to Alaska is a wonderful race in which boats of all shapes and sizes head north from Port Townsend, Washington and end up in Ketchikan Alaska...
Jason Brown // Freediving in San Francisco Bay - Ep. 119
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When Jason Brown started asking around about the possibility of freediving in San Francisco Bay people told him it was impossible. But my friend Jason...
Malcolm Morgan // Sharing Decades of Marine Electrical and Technical Experience - Ep. 118
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
At 10-years-old, Malcolm Morgan fell into boat maintenance when his family bought at Hobie Cat dealership after having sailed exactly once. He quickly...
Safety At Sea // A Weekend of Considering The Worst Case Scenario - Ep. 117
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on OTG I discuss the U.S. Sailing Safety at Sea Seminar Lauren and I just took as well as the lithium battery conversion I am in the process...
Heinz Baumann // From Pac Cup to Running a Charter Biz in AK - Ep. 116
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Heinz Baumann learned to sail on lakes in Europe, but was introduced to a whole new world of sailing and racing when he moved to the Bay Area. He’s ...
Markus Pukonen // A Non-Motorized Circumnavigation of the Planet - Ep. 115
26 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Markus Pukonen has been traveling the world for 7-and-a-half years. He’s sailed, he’s biked, he’s canoed, he’s kayaked, he’s stand-up paddle...
Ronnie Simpson // Preparing for the Global Solo Challenge - Ep. 114
19 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Last time Ronnie Simpson was on the show, in 2020, we talked about being wounded by an RPG in Iraq and how sailing saved his life. This time, Ronnie a...
Bernard Dunayevich // Learning to Windsurf in Piranha Infested Waters - Ep. 113
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bernard Dunayevich owned one of the first windsurfers in Argentina and taught himself how to rig and sail it in piranha infested waters. But he says t...
Simon & Sally Currin // From High Altitude Climbing to High Latitude Sailing - Ep. 112
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sally and Simon Currin met while planning an expedition to Mount Everest. Since then, they’ve traded in high altitude climbing for high latitude sai...
Susan Cole // A Memoir of Sailing, Love, and Loss - Ep. 111
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the 90’s, Susan Cole, her husband John, her 7-year-old daughter Kate, and their dog Elmo all boarded their Mason 43 for a three-year adventure th...
Ryan Ellison // The Ups and Downs of Cruising for 5 Years - Ep. 110
09 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Ellison, who’s American, and Sophie Darsey, who’s French, met in Sweden. Together they learned to sail then purchased a 2007 Beneteau Oceanis...
Chris & Marissa Neely // Throwing Off the Dock Lines - Ep. 109
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I catch up with Chris and Marissa Neely aboard their Choy Lee 41 Avocet. After years of living aboard and working on their boat in Ventura, CA, they’...
Laura & Fede // Sailing Antarctica For a Living - Ep. 108
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Federico Guerrero grew up 4 blocks from the beach in Argentina. Laura Smith Grew up next to me, in Falls Church Virginia. The two of them fell in love...
Andy Cross // Raising two Boys While Cruising the Pacific - Ep. 107
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andy Cross grew up daysailing and cruising with his family in Michigan. He made his first offshore passage at 19 and he’s been working in the sailin...
Cal Currier // Alone Across the Atlantic at 16 - Ep. 106
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cal Currier had never been ocean sailing, but at sixteen-years-old the Palo Alto high school student set himself a goal to sail solo across the Atlant...
Cyril Derreumaux #2 // A Successful Kayak from CA to HI - Ep. 105
23 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
He made it! Cyril Derreumaux recently became the second person in the world to kayak from California to Hawaii. We spoke before he left (episode 73) a...
Justin Jenkins // Transformation & Growth - Ep. 104
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Justin Jenkins is a sailor, musician, and carpenter who has sailed all over the pacific. He and I have been corresponding about sailing for a few year...
Ryan Finn: Success // Around Cape Horn in a Proa Sailboat - Ep. 103
12 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ryann Finn departed New York in January of 2022. Just over three months later he arrived here in San Francisco, having sailed his 36-foot proa sailboa...
James Frederick // Across the Pacific Without a Rudder - Ep. 102
22 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
James Frederick was recently awarded the 2021 Qualifiers Mug from the Ocean Cruising Club for sailing 2,300 miles across the Pacific Ocean, 1,000 of t...
Heather Richard // Winging it to Baja - Ep. 101
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Captain Heather Richard, a good friend of mine, was one of the key inspirations for this podcast. She was my very first guest and I’m thrilled to ha...
Barry & Samantha Spanier // Rosie G Comes To Life - Ep. 100
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Rosie G is an innovative, new, scow bowed, junk rigged, boat that came from the mind of Barry and Samatha Spanier. She was designed by Jim Antrim ...
McKayla Bower // Trans Around The World - Ep. 99
02 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
McKala Bower is a trans woman who only started sailing a short while ago, but she’s got big ambitions to be the first trans and first openly gay per...
Brady & Blue // Buying a Boat w Bitcoin & Surviving a Tsunami - Ep. 98
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Mark Hensley // From Sailing Sunfish to Commanding Tankers - Ep. 97
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Jim Antrim // Designing & Racing an Eclectic Portfolio of Sailboats - Ep. 96
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 desig...
Matt Rutherford // From SF to Japan in a 30-foot Daysailer - Ep. 95
01 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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....
Cameron Albin // Going to Sea to Heal War Wounds - Ep. 94
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Billy & Sierra Swezey // Tula’s Endless Summer Marches on From Boat to Boat - Ep. 93
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 B...
Tyler Walkey & Julia Sinusia // An Offshore Passage Days After Buying a Boat - Ep. 92
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 day...
Alex Kleeman & Lauren Sloss / Adventures Far and Near on a Valiant 32 - Ep. 91
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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....
Jack Patton & Sonya David / Two the Horizon on a Passport 42 - Ep. 90
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Michael Robertson / Cruising while Running a Sailing Magazine - Ep. 89
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 wi...
Bekah Lane & Kathi George / Whale Strikes and Entanglements in the SF Bay - Ep. 88
24 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Cree Partridge / Racer, Boatbuilder, Owner of Berkeley Marine Center - Ep. 87
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 youn...
Ben Pedersen-Wedlock & Anna Behrens // Circumnavigating the Americas in an Engineless Boat - Ep. 86
27 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Kevin Wasbauer // Shearwater Sailing: A New Charter Business in Monterey - Ep. 85
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Wasbauer is an experienced sailor, having competed in the Fastnet, the Heineken Regatta, the Transpac and many other races. In 2020 he purchased...
Sid Shaw // Shipwrecked in the South China Sea - Ep. 84
28 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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. T...
Bianca Bahman & Fernanda Schlender // Shipwrecked in Indonesia - Ep. 83
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 adve...
Erden Eruç // Rowing The Pacific On The Way To Everest - Ep. 82
24 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 Atlanti...
Ryan Foland // Good Jibes: A New Sailing Podcast from Latitude 38 - Ep. 81
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Foland, together with John Arndt, the Publisher of Latitude 38, recently launched a new sailing podcast called Good Jibes. The podcast, hosted by...
Sid & Rebecca Shaw // Cruising Together for Over 50 Years - Ep. 80
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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-cem...
Lin Pardey // Stories from a Lifetime of Sailing & Advice for Getting Out There Now - Ep. 79
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 becam...
Lauren Keane // Similarities and Differences Between Cruising And Back Country Hiking - Ep. 78
16 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 c...
Marga Pretorius // Finding the Right Tools for Cruising and Living Life - Ep. 77
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 bo...
Jim Diepenbrock // Dismasted While Racing a Swan 48 - Ep. 76
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 danger...
Barry Walton // Reaching Reality: 3 Friends Sail a Small Boat to Mexico - Ep. 75
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 mon...
Noelle Brewin & Laura Levy // Starting Somand: Sailing Apparel for Women - Ep. 74
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Cyril Derreumaux // Kayaking Solo from SF to Hawaii - Ep. 73
30 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Brady & Blue // Cruising SV Delos to Cruisers Academy in Tahoe - Ep. 72
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 start...
Ron Elliot // Close Encounters with Great White Sharks - Ep. 71
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 countl...
Brooks Watson // Sailing on Clubhouse & Watts on Water - Ep. 70
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 f...
James Dilworth // Big Adventures in Small Boats - Ep. 69
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 e...
Joe Balderrama // SF Bay Singlehanded Sailing Society - Ep. 68
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Ryan Finn Update // The Whole Story of the Hull Hole - Ep. 67
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Mike Scheck // Scanmar & Getting Into the Business of Sailing - Ep. 66
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Graham Balch // Promoting an Electric Revolution on the Water - Ep. 65
22 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Graham Balch is the Managing Broker at Green Yachts - a new brokerage in San Rafael that is dedicated to selling, servicing and promoting electric boa...
Kimball Livingston // Writing and Racing in SF and Around the World - Ep. 64
08 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 M...
Ernie Koepf // Going to Sea for Solace, Affirmation, and a Living - Ep. 63
25 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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, an...
Ryan Finn // Attempting a Record: Sailing Solo, Non-Stop from NY to SF - Ep. 62
18 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 treatm...
Linda Newland // Fastest Woman Across the Pacific Single-Handed - Ep. 61
04 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 don...
Jeff Cote // Enabling Dreams through Marine Electrical Systems - Ep. 60
21 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Lisa Chapin Bullett // Sharing the Joy of Sailing with Others - Ep. 59
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 pro...
Will & Sarah Curry // Crossing Oceans while Running a Business - Ep. 58
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Tim Henry // Dredging Up Great Stories on San Francisco’s Waterfront - Ep. 57
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 La...
Clark Beek // Being Run Over By A Container Ship & Other Adventures - Ep. 56
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 h...
Philippe Jamotte // Tackling a Record-Breaking Circumnavigation Not Long After Learning To Sail - Ep. 55
04 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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-sto...
Wilbur Spaul // Sailing to Hawaii in 9-foot Sailboat Named Chubby Girl - Ep. 54
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 B...
Ronnie Simpson // From Fallujah to Fiji with Many Ocean Miles In-between - Ep. 53
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 exp...
SV Avocet: Chris & Marissa Neely // A Talented Young Couple Refit a Beautiful Old Boat - Ep. 52
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 grad...
Tor Johnson // The Challenges and Dangers of Sailing Photography - Ep. 51
24 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 tra...
Martin Machado // Making Art on Boats from 26 to 900 Feet - Ep. 50
10 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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, lands...
The Franz Family // Cruising Mexico in a 68-foot, Aluminum Boat - Ep. 49
27 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 sta...
John Arndt // 33 Years at Latitude 38 - Ep. 48
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
John Arndt is the owner and publisher of Latitude 38, the magazine that is fairly synonymous with sailing in the Bay Area. John started selling ads fo...