Liz Wardley // A Sailor Smashing Records in t...

Back in 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, August and Øyvind Nilssen were both out sailing on two very different boats. He was sailing in Lofoten, and August was passing through on a brand-new Bavaria he was delivering along the Norwegian coast. They rafted up together in a bea ...  Show more

Will Sofrin returns to the podcast to talk about his new book on the USCG EAGLE tall ship. Will, a former "yachtie" turned tallship sailor, first came on the show back in 2023 to talk about delivering the ship used in the film Master & Commander, which became the subject of his f ...  Show more

Lisa Blair, 32, became the first woman to sail solo around the Antartica when she completed her 184-day journey on July 25th in Albany, Western Australia. She had attempted to break Russian adventurer Fedor Konyukhov's 2008 record for the fastest solo, unassisted and non-stop tri ...  Show more

Abby Ehler and Francesca Clapcich, who is sailing with Turn the Tide on Plastic in her first Volvo Ocean Race, and VOR veteran Sally Barkow, who has raced on a couple of legs alongside Abby on Team Brunel join us from Auckland. They chat about their experiences of the race so far ...  Show more

Abby chats to three sailors; Annie Lush, Lara Poljšak and Annika Möslein, all of whom have recently competed in the The Ocean Race Europe, which started on May 29 from Lorient and finished in Genoa on June 19. The Europe race is a new event designed to showcase top-flight, fully- ...  Show more

In 2017, Australian sailor Lisa Blair is going for a record - the fastest ever solo circumnavigation of Antarctica. She is nearing the finish line when out of nowhere disaster strikes. With her boat breaking in two, Lisa must pull off the most desperate of emergency procedures… a ...  Show more