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Offshore Sailing and Cruising with Paul Trammell

Paul Trammell

300 episodes · Explicit

Interviews with offshore sailors and those in the industry sharing exciting stories and useful information so we can better enjoy and better prepare for our own adventures.

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  1. Building and Sailing a 75' Steel Sailboat, Doug Jackson, SV Seeker

    · 1 h 03 min · S7 E229

    Doug Jackson spent fifteen years building a 75' steel junk-rigged sailboat in Tulsa Oklahoma. Aron Erwin introduced me to Doug, and I interviewed them both in episode 221 in the before and after Hurricane Milton…

  2. Adam Desrosiers, Living Off-Grid in Alaska, Sailing a Cape George 36

    · 1 h 17 min · S7 E228

    Adam lives off-grid in southeast Alaska and sails a Cape George 36. He was also a small-boat commercial fisherman and a merchant marine. We talk about Alaska, his history of commercial fishing, why we love untying the…

  3. Erden Eruc, Preparing for the 2026 Golden Globe Race

    · 43 min · S7 E227

    Erden Eruc is an entrant in the 2026 Golden Globe Race, and has purchased Simon Curwen's Biscay 36, Clara. Erden is also one of only two people to have circumnavigated under human power, and Erden is the only to have…

  4. Sam Holmes 2, in Dakar

    · 58 min · S1 E225

    When I spoke with Sam the previous week (ep. 224) he was en route to Dakar. In this episode, he is in Dakar. I also talk about my recent passage from San Blas to Linton Bay and then on to Escudo de Veraguas. Sam and I…

  5. Sam Holmes, Underway between the Canary Islands and Dakkar

    · 49 min · S7 E224

    Sam was sailing in his Cape Dory 28 between the Canary Islands and Dakkar when I spoke to him. Before the interview, I talk about the San Blas Islands. Sam and I talk about the conditions, his Cape Dory 28, his…

  6. Sailing through Southeast Asia with Olivia Owens Wyatt

    · 1 h 17 min · S7 E223

    Olivia Owens Wyatt is a solo sailor, a filmaker, and a USCG 50-Ton Master certified captain. She is on her way around the world, currently in SE Asia, on a Panda 34. She is also entered in the 2026 Golden Globe Race…

  7. Andrew Cassels, Around the Americas through the NW Passage and Patagonia

    · 1 h 10 min · S7 E222

    Andrew recently completed a three-year journey around the Americas including the Faroe Islands, Greenland, through the Northwest Passage, Alaska, Costa Rica, Patagonia, Brazil, and Svalbard, in a JFA 45, an aluminum…

  8. Before and After Hurricane Milton, Anchored in St Augustine with Aaron Erwine and Doug Jackson

    · 1 h 02 min · S7 E221 · Explicit

    Aaron and Doug were anchored in the Intracoastal Waterway just north of St Augustine, Florida, during hurricane Milton (and Helene). I interviewed them before and then after Hurricane Milton. We talk about anchoring;…

  9. Sailing Solo from The Netherlands to New Zealand, Jacqueline Evers

    · 1 h 06 min · S7 E220

    Jacqueline Evers set off from The Netherlands in July 2023 and is now in New Zealand. She sails a 1977 Grinde 27 called Loveworkx, designed by Peter Bruun and built in Denmark. We talk about New Zealand, clearing into…

  10. Panama Update, Bocas del Toro and San Blas

    · 1 h 01 min · S7 E219

    Recorded at Esnasdup island in San Blas, aka Guna Yala, I discuss my year and a half in Panama. I talk about navigating here, places I've been, anchorages, marinas, the weather, wildlife, crime, clearing in and out,…

  11. Transatlantic on a Hans Christian 34, Gunnar Christensen

    · 1 h 18 min · S7 E218

    Gunnar Christensen is an entrant in the 2026 Golden Globe Race, and he recently bought a Hans Christian 34 in Trinidad and sailed it, solo, home to the UK. We talk about the boat, the voyage, his self-steering,…

  12. Tom Fisher, Sailing in Newfoundland

    · 1 h 24 min · S7 E217

    Tom Fisher sails a Biscay 36. He was inspired to go to Newfoundland after readingthe book "Sailing to Newfoundland," and visited many of the places I went in 2022. We talk about growing up sailing in the UK, sailing…

  13. Nathan Zahrt,

    · 1 h 29 min · S7 E216

    Nathan and his wife Vivian run Ocean Passages, offering training passages aboard their Compass 47. We also talk about Tahiti and the Society Islands, dealing with cyclone season, Nova Scotia, dealing with heavy…

  14. Porter Fox, Category Five

    · 1 h 11 min · S7 E215

    Porter Fox grew up on the coast of Maine sailing small boats. His father designed and built Whistler sailboats and founded Able Marine. Porter has written three books and also writes stories for The New York Times and…

  15. Dave Winkler, Sea Tow

    · 54 min · S7 E214

    Dave winkler is a Sea Two captain in Boston. We talk about sailing in Boston, problems sailers face and ask Sea Tow for help with, towing sailboats and using drogues during rudder-failure, mast breakage, the importance…

  16. James Evenson, Sailing Zingaro

    · 1 h 22 min · S7 E213 · Explicit

    Captain James is a former submariner in the US Navy. He's sailed over 70,000 nm on a wide variety of boats. We talk about life on a submarine, catamarans, sailing through the South Pacific, a near-disaster on a…

  17. Ethan Mass, Sea Tow Boston

    · 44 min · S7 E212

    In this bonus mid-week episode, I interview Sea Tow captain Ethan Maass, from Sea Tow Boston. We talk about how Sea Tow serves sailors, how far they go to help, working with the Coast Guard when there's a problem,…

  18. The South Pacific in 2 Perspectives, Erick and Jenny VanMalssen

    · 1 h 32 min · S7 E211

    Erick and Jenny had just arrived in Fiji when I spoke with them, after having spent a year in French Polynesia. I interviewed the sepparately and asked the same questions, then editied it so you can hear their…

  19. Chris and Tom from SailTies

    · 47 min · S7 E210

    Tom and Chris are two sailors from the UK who developed SailTies, a free app that makes it easy to record all your sailing experience in one place. The app keeps a digital record of all your voyages, certificates,…

  20. Escape from Panama, Captain Ky the Seaglass Guy

    · 1 h 21 min · S7 E209

    Kyle Davis, aka Captain Ky the Seaglass Guy, was in the San Blas islands in Panama when he came down with dengue fever. He ended up in a bad situation in a prison-like hospital and had to escape. Kyle is a sailor and a…

  21. Grant Headifen, NauticEd,

    · 1 h 27 min · S7 E208

    Grant Headifen is the founder and Global Director of Education of NauticEd, a modern sailing education organization that provides online sailing courses, a global network of sailing schools, and virtual-reality sail…

  22. Jack Patton, Sailing an Electric Boat, Powerflow Marine

    · 54 min · S7 E207

    Jack Patton sails an electric Passport 42, and was sailing to Hawaii when we spoke. He is also the owner of Poerflow Marine, which makes electric-motor systems for sailboats. We talk about sailing an electric boat,…

  23. Cruising an IMOCA 66, Sailing NV

    · 1 h 10 min · S7 E206

    Timo and Jo bought NV, a 66' IMOCA ex-Vendee Globe sailboat and converted her into a family cruiser, without sacrificing performance. The draft is still 4.5m and the mast 100'. NV was originally designed, built &…

  24. Skip Novak, High-Latitude Expedition Sailing and Expedition Sailboats

    · 1 h 21 min · S1 E205

    Skip Novak is a lifetime offshore sailor, veteran of four Whitbread Round the World and other races, and owner of Pelagic Expeditions. He recently published the boat "On Sailing." We talk about the book, learning to…

  25. Living Aboard and Sailing a Proper Electric Sailboat with SV Vagari

    · 1 h 18 min · S6 E204

    Keith and Becca bought a Pearson 424 that needed a refit, and when the time came to repower, they found an inexpensive electric motor and made a quick decision to build an electri-motor system. They eventually sailed…

  26. Tanguy de Lamotte, Vita Power, and Electric Boats

    · 46 min · S6 E203

    Tanguy de Lamotte is a French sailor and naval architect, and veteran of many offshore races, including the two Vendeé Globes and several Transats. He is also part of Vita Power, a company that makes electric boats. We…

  27. Simon Curwen, Ocean Globe Race aboard Translated 9

    · 1 h 13 min · S6 E202

    Simon Curwen recently skippered Translated 9, a Swan 65, in the Ocean Globe Race, which was a re-creation of the 1973 Whitbread Round the World Race. The race consisted of 4 legs, from the UK to Cape Town, South…

  28. Sail Trim Basics with Carl Damm

    · 1 h 10 min · S6 E201

    Carl Damm is a sailing instructor and owner of Damsel Marine, a yacht managment and maintenance consulting service. We talk about the basics of trimming sails, like using adjustable jib-sheet cars, the boom vang, the…

  29. Gunnar Christensen, Preparing for the 2026 Golden Globe Race

    · 1 h 25 min · S6 E200

    Gunnar Christensen is entered in the 2026 Golden Globe Race. We talk about his motivations, what he hopes to gain from the race, his competetiveness, preparing mentally and physically, singlehanding and being alone on…

  30. Alan Fishbone, Heavy Weather in the North Atlantic

    · 46 min · S6 E199 · Explicit

    Alan Fishbone lives on his Lord Nelson 35, currently in the British Virgin Islands. He sailed there from New York in December and encountered heavy weather, which we discuss. We also talk about living on a boat, solar…

  31. Kirsten Neuschafer, Winner of the 2022 GGR

    · 1 h 05 min · S6 E198 · Explicit

    Kirsten won the 2022 Golden Globe Race, and became the first woman to win a sailing race around the world by the three great capes, crewed or solo, and the first South African to win an around the world race. Kirsten…

  32. A Conversation with Jerome Rand of Sailing into Oblivion

    · 1 h 37 min · S6 E197

    Jerome Rand is the host of the podcast Sailing into Oblivion, and author of the book by the same name, describing his solo nonstop sail around the wolrd in Mighty Sparrow, his Westsail 32. This episode is not one of us…

  33. Heather Thomas, Winner of the 2023 Ocean Globe Race

    · 1 h 02 min · S6 E196 · Explicit

    Heather Thomas skippered SV Maiden to victory in the 2023 Ocean Globe Race (OGR), and the crew became the first first all-female crew to win an around the world race. Heather was also the youngest skipper in the race,…

  34. Owen Murphy, Panama to the Marquesas

    · 1 h 12 min · S6 E195 · Explicit

    Owen Murphy recently crossed the Panama Canal, then sailed to the Galapagos islands, and on to the Marquesas, solo, on his Pacific Seacraft 34. We talk about learning French, Polynesian tattoos, provisioning,…

  35. Lutz Kohne and the Golden Globe Race

    · 1 h 33 min · S6 E194

    Lutz Kohne is entered in the 2026 Golden Globe Race, and was part of the race organization in the 2022 GGR, taking satellite calls from the sailors and dealing with emergencies. We talk about learning to sail, making…

  36. Rob Hamill, The Cruising Kiwis

    · 1 h 12 min · S6 E193 · Explicit

    Rob and his family, aka The Cruising Kiwis, bought their 43ft catamaran, Javelot, with minimal sailing experience to retrace the tragic sailing trip of Rob's eldest brother, Kerry, who was captured and executed by the…

  37. John Ensley, Cruise-N-Learn Sailing International

    · 49 min · S6 E192

    John spends his summers sailing in Puget Sound, and the winters in La Paz, Mexico. He is the owner, founder, and sailing director of Cruise-n-Learn Sailing International. We talk about learning to sail, La Paz,…

  38. Tips for Cruising and Living Aboard

    · 1 h 03 min · S6 E191

    After making a life for myself cruising, sailing offshore, and living aboard full time, I share tips and lessons I've learned along the way. I talk about ways to prepare for this lifestyle and how to enjoy it once out…

  39. Brian Dale, Cruising as a Nomadic Musician

    · 1 h 42 min · S6 E190

    Brian is a solo sailor on a Hughes 38, currently in Georgetown, The Bahamas. He supports his cruising by playing the guitar and singing, sometimes putting on dinghy concerts from his boat in the anchorage. We talk…

  40. Expeditions to Antarctica, Michael Brooks

    · 1 h 04 min · S6 E189

    Michael Brooks of Expedition Sailing has been taking clients on skiing and climbing expeditions from South America to Antarctica. We talk about sailing to Antarctica, picking the right weather window, steel boats,…

  41. Four Years and 35 Countries with Helen Shrewsbury

    · 1 h 09 min · S6 E188

    Helen recently completed a four-year journey from the UK to New Zealand and visited 35 countries along the way. We talk about her boat, the journey, some of her favorite countries, The Gambia, sailing under the bridge…

  42. Tapio Lehtinen, from the Last Stop of the Ocean Globe Race

    · 1 h 00 min · S6 E187

    Tapio Lehtinen was in the port of Punta del Este, Uruguay, during the last stop of the Ocean Globe Race, a re-creation of the Whitbread Round the World Race, when we spoke. He was sailing on Galiana With Secure, a 1970…

  43. Ronnie Simpson, Dismasting in the Global Solo Challenge

    · 1 h 46 min · S6 E186 · Explicit

    Ronnie Simpson was racing solo around the world in an Open 50 when he dismasted soon after rounding Cape Horn, and with a storm approaching with forecasted 70-knot wind and 30' seas. We discuss the events leading up to…

  44. Panama to Mexico with Brendan and Chanell Moore

    · 1 h 21 min · S6 E185

    Brendan and Chanell recently sailed their Bruce Roberts 36 from Bocas del Toro, Panama, to Isla Mujeres, Mexico, in late December, saw some dificult weather and had to adapt their plans. We also talk about the passage,…

  45. Understanding Boat Statistics, Panama Update 2/2024

    · 43 min · S6 E184

    In this episode, I talk about the Global Solo Challenge and the boats in the race, focusing on sailboat data and how that affects a sailboat's performance. I also talk about what I've been up to, components on my boat…

  46. Extended Cruising with Children, Suzanne Heywood, Author of Wavewalker

    · 49 min · S6 E183

    When Suzanne was 7 years old, she set sail from Plymouth, England, on the schooner Wavewalker with her parents and brother. Their trip, which was recreating Captain Cook's third voyage around the world, was supposed to…

  47. Cruising a Trailerable Trimaran with Tom and Kelsey Bohanon

    · 1 h 09 min · S6 E182 · Explicit

    Tom and Kelsey live in Colorado and cruise and race in a 28' Corsair trimaran. I met the in the Ragged Islands, The Bahamas. They also raced the trimaran in the Race to Alaska. We talk about The Bahamas, Greenland,…

  48. Webb Chiles, Going Beyond the Limits of Human Experience

    · 1 h 13 min · S6 E181

    Webb Chiles is a solo sailor and author. He has circumnavigated six times, was the first American to sail solo around Cape Horn during which he broke Chichester's record, nearly circumnavigated in an open boat - an 18'…

  49. Schooner Sailing with Seth Bird

    · 1 h 20 min · S6 E180

    Seth Bird sails a steel schooner and has worked on commercial vessels for over 20 years, ranging from the USCG and NOAA to oil field support vessels and tall ships. We talk about tall ships, marlinspike seamanship,…

  50. Unfinished Business with Guy deBoer

    · 1 h 01 min · S6 E179 · Explicit

    Guy deBoer, who crashed on a reef in the 2022 GGR, is planning on sailing around the world in the spirit of the 2022 Golden Globe Race, but on his own, and in 2024. We talk about lessons learned from the 2022 race,…

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