Ocean Sailing Podcast
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Ocean Sailing Podcast
Capturing and sharing ocean sailing stories and adventures. The Ocean Sailing Podcast site is designed for people who love to cruise, race or explore the worlds oceans. Its also for those yet to experience the joy of sailing and those no longer able to cast off their dock lines and head for the open...
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Stephanie Neil - The launch of Fiji Surf Charter with Sea Breeze III
In this one-of-a-kind, "not-about-sailing" episode, I sit down with the bold and enthusiastic Stephanie Neil , Founder of Fiji Surf Charter, to uncove...
David Hows - What's keeping me awake at night right now!
David shares an update on the latest challenges at Ocean Sailing Expeditions. Buying an IMOCA Open 60 yacht complete with a carbon mast and canting ke...
How to join our IMOCA Open 60 Race Crew (Webinar)
Do you have the drive for adventure and the desire to push your limits? Whether you're an experienced sailor or a keen adventurer looking for the ulti...
From 1 to 4 yachts, in 4 years: the Ocean Sailing Expeditions story continues
David Hows has returned with thrilling announcements for 2025 at Ocean Sailing Expeditions, unveiling his vision for the year ahead. Fresh from crossi...
Sharon Ferris-Choat: Sydney Hobart Race 2024 Debrief
David Hows catches up with Sharon Ferris-Choat for a debrief on the IMOCA Open 60 project - Awen. With less than 8 weeks to get Awen into MCA Cat 0 su...
David Hows - How I turned my sailing passion into a business at age 50
David's daughter Madison interviews him about life lessons, building a sailing business, setbacks, challenges and the future ahead. In this episode, M...
David Hows: The acquisition of the 105 foot Sea Breeze III - crossing to the dark side
David shares the story of his latest love affair, after falling for Seabreeze III, a 48-year-old classic 105-foot motoryacht, that he is acquiring for...
$1 Reserve Sailing Auction / Ocean Sailing Expeditions update with David Hows
In this episode we share the webinar recording with David Hows, Skipper and Founder of Ocean Sailing Expeditions, where he covers: - Details on the up...
Matt Harvey / David Hows - Australian Circumnavigation Review: 8,500nm in 4 months
Skippers David Hows and Matt Harvey catch up to review their 2-yacht circumnavigation of Australia in 2023. With 8,500nm covered in just 4 months, the...
Sharon Ferris-Choat: From troubled student to Olympian, Volvo Ocean Race, Jules Vern and Extreme Cats
Sharon was a teenager heading for trouble when she discovered sailing. Starting in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, Sharon watched Maiden race around...
Jon Bilger - Predicting the Wind
David Hows catches up with Jon Bilger to talk about a long list of innovations and new features at PredictWind. As an Olympic and America’s Cup sailor...
Exploring the Yasawa Islands in Fiji by yacht
In this episode David Hows and Matt Harvey share their advice and highlights from cruising the stunning Yasawa Islands in Fiji over the past 2 winters...
Honey I'm buying (another) 72ft Super Yacht at 90% below replacement value
David Hows is back with another ambitious tale and chapter of his exciting plans to expand Ocean Sailing Expeditions with the purchase of another 72-f...
Stephen Ladd - Exploring Latin American Coasts and Rivers in a 21 foot yacht
Ginny met Steve at a wooden boat festival in the 1990's when he was selling his book, Three Years in a 12-Foot Boat. She thought something like, “The...
Neil Driscoll: Training the key to avoiding tragedy at sea
Neil grew up sailing in the UK and quickly became accustomed to the range of weather conditions that it serves up. By the time he was a few months old...
David Hows: 17 key lessons from 13 Tasman Sea Crossings
David Hows crossed the Tasman Sea for the first time in 2013, relieved to have survived a 1,500nm crossing that he never expected to repeat. 9 years a...
Derek Hamer: Saving hundreds of thousands of mammals from accidental death
Derek Hamer has devoted his life to helping save seals and whales. It's a great insight into the impact that fishing has on our oceans and the work th...
Walter Van Lier: Sails half way around the world on a wing and a prayer
Walter Van Lier finds a 1980's Beneteau yacht for sale online and flies half way around the world during COVID to buy it. This is the story of a crazy...
Derek Shields - Building a yacht out of a 1,000 year old Huon Pine log
Imagine discovering a log that had just floated down a Tasmanian River in a storm and building an ocean going yacht out of it. Not just any log, but ...
Suzie Christensen: sailor and CEO of the stunning Lord Howe Island
Meet Suzie Christensen; sailor and CEO of the stunning Lord Howe Island. On my 4th visit to Lord Howe Island in 5 years I managed to catch up with the...
Matt Harvey completes 4,200nm Tahiti to Sydney passage
We catch up with Matt Harvey on the challenge of flying 32 hours to Tahiti, to pick up a rookie crew and prepare to deliver his new yacht ‘Salt Lines’...
Dan Farmer wins division in Sydney Hobart Race on yacht B52
Dan Farmer, owner and skipper of the Sydney 41 yacht ‘B52’, shares the story of his epic adventure in the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart Race, where more th...
Matt Harvey – Buys 70-foot expedition yacht 'sight unseen' in Tahiti
I met Matt Harvey in June 2021 when he joined me onboard Silver Fern as Chief Mate on the 600nm passage from Southport to Hamilton Island, Queensland....
Maryanne and Kyle Webb - 5 Pacific Crossings and a catamaran cruising tale
With a dream to sail the Atlantic one day, Maryanne (Scotland) met Kyle (USA) in 2002 and setting abut turning her dream into reality. They kicked the...
David Hows: Aground for 10 hours on the mud in crocodile country
David Hows shares an update on his 72-foot expedition yacht project - Silver Fern, with details of the last 6-months including the Americas Cup, the 1...
Jack Griffin - Its showtime: Luna Rossa vs ETNZ in Americas Cup 36
I catch up with America's Cup analyst and expert - Jack Griffin from CupExperience.com and we dive into the AC75 class, the shocks and surprises to da...
David Hows – Episode 100: Silver Fern Project Update & Limited Membership Opportunity
In episode 100 of the Ocean Sailing Podcast, David Hows dives into his latest ‘Silver Fern’ 72-foot expedition yacht project and does a big update on...
Rodney Keenan - Founder of Evolution Sails on the 'high-tech. arms race'
In this episode I meet with Rodney Keenan, founder of Evolution Sails, at his incredible high-tech membrane plant in Auckland, New Zealand about sail...
Vernon Deck - COVID19 Cruising Challenges in Indonesia
Vernon Deck is a great example of jumping headfirst into sailing and just figuring it out as you go along. We initially interviewed Vernon in episode...
Coastguard Nelson (NZ) - getting found and staying alive
David Hows and Phil Jarvis join the crew of Coastguard Nelson for a post-rescue debrief session, followed by a recorded podcast interview to discuss h...
Jana and Mick - Sailing through Central America, highlights and challenges
Jana McGeachy and Mick O'Keefe (Beef) are not your typical semi-retired cruising sailors. As young sailors, they've worked hard, saved up and sold up....
Dustin Reynolds - From bankrupted, double amputee to solo circumnavigator
I have yet to meet anyone more inspirational than Dustin Reynolds when it comes to turning personal tragedy and financial ruin into a completely new p...
Geoff Wilson - world record setting explorer & adventurer
Geoff’s Wilson's life changed forever on Boxing Day 2004. Within days of the Banda Aceh earthquake and tsunami, he was working on the ground as a reli...
Mark Chew - the joy of ocean sailing in classic wooden yachts
Involved in ocean racing as a teenager and competing regularly as crew in all the Australian Blue Water Classics, Mark first became part of the wooden...
Dylan Magaster - Traveling the planet at age 21 on $1,000
An inspirational interview with Dylan Magaster who flew to South America at the age of 21 with only $1,000 in the bank and his camera gear and decided...
Honey I bought a 70 ft Super Yacht (at 90% below replacement value)
David Hows shares this sneak preview of his exciting new sailing expeditions that lay ahead and the 70-foot expedition super yacht he is acquiring to...
Disaster averted - Crew post-mortem on rescue & lessons learned
This episode is about sharing the lessons from an initial mechanical failure that occurred in the middle of the Tasman Sea, that set off a chain of ev...
Colin MacRae - rebuilding a hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 catamaran.
Parlay Revival is a story about a young man from New Zealand, Colin, who spend's his life savings from a 10 year career as a Super yacht engineer, to...
David Hows - Mid Tasman Sea steering failure & broken boom
4 days after departing Hobart Australia to sail 1,250nm across the Tasman Sea to Picton, New Zealand the crew of the Ocean Gem had to face a steering...
Do what you love! Darren & Amanda give up jobs and go sailing
This is the inspirational story of Amanda and Darren who decided to, give up great jobs and sell up and go sailing while in their early thirties. What...