Latest Crewoffshore Podcast Episodes
Heather Thomas // Maiden Skipper & OGR Winner
On the Wind Sailing - May 14, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 500 ratingsSkipper Heather Thomas recently won the inaugural Ocean Globe Race aboard the iconic yacht Maiden. The crew made history again by becoming the first all female crew to win a round the world race! At 27, Heather was the youngest skipper in this race and one of two female skippers. Emma and Heathe...
Heather Thomas // MAIDEN Skipper & OGR Winner
On the Wind Sailing - May 14, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 500 ratingsSkipper Heather Thomas recently won the inaugural Ocean Globe Race aboard the iconic yacht MAIDEN. The crew made history again by becoming the first all-female crew to win a round-the-world race! At 27, Heather was the youngest skipper in this race and one of two female skippers. Emma and Heathe...
Kristoffer Applequist // 'Över Atlanten' TV Show
On the Wind Sailing - May 07, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 500 ratingsComedian Kristoffer Applequist returns to the podcast to talk about his first trans-Atlantic passage with the Swedish reality TV show 'Över Atlanten.' Now in it's 6th season, the show — which puts celebrities onboard a big Swan with Whitbread skipper Gunnar Kranz for an Atlantic crossing — has b...
Kristoffer Appelquist // 'Över Atlanten' TV Show
On the Wind Sailing - May 07, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 500 ratingsComedian Kristoffer Appelquist returns to the podcast to talk about his first trans-Atlantic passage with the Swedish reality TV show 'Över Atlanten.' Now in it's 6th season, the show — which puts celebrities onboard a big Swan with Whitbread skipper Gunnar Kranz for an Atlantic crossing — has b...
August Sandberg // ISBJØRN Refit
On the Wind Sailing - April 30, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 500 ratingsAugust Sandberg is the owner and skipper of our beloved Swan 48 ISBJØRN, which has sailed over 60,000 miles since the beginning of 59º North. August lives outside Bergen, Norway, where the boat is now based, and recently finished overseeing a second major refit, which we had done at Vindö Marin ...
Suzanne Heywood // Wavewalker: Breaking Free
On the Wind Sailing - April 23, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 500 ratingsSuzanne Heywood was raised on a sailboat. What started as a three year circumnavigation with her family turned into a decade of living aboard, sailing, and struggling to get an education. Suzanne's book, 'Wavewalker,' tells the story of that voyage. In this episode, Emma and Suzanne talk about '...
Alex Laline // Clipper Round The World Skipper
On the Wind Sailing - April 18, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 500 ratingsAlex Laline is a lifelong sailor and one of our full-time staff at 59º North. Growing up in a multinational family, he sailed dinghies as a kid in the UK, Spain and Indonesia, then got inspired to sail around the world when he saw an ad for the Clipper Round the World Race. As a teenager he save...
Lutz Kohne // Golden Globe Manager turned Racer
On the Wind Sailing - April 09, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 500 ratingsSailing was never a part of Lutz Kohne’s life growing up — it hit him square in the face as an adult, and completely changed his trajectory. He has since worked as a professional skipper, as Race Director for the OGR and the GGR, and he is now preparing to set sail himself, around the world, sol...
Henry Mickel & Bayley Richardson // Sailing REVELRY Home to Oz
On the Wind Sailing - April 04, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 500 ratingsHenry Mickle & Bayley Richardson are self-described "Mates from the Land Down Under", cruising around the world in an old Beneteau. These two twenty-something friends made a pact, worked their asses off, saved their money, bought a boat and are living the dream — figuring it out as they go, but ...
Jojo Pickering // From the Sea to the Theatre & Back Again
On the Wind Sailing - March 26, 2024 10:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 500 ratingsJojo Pickering grew up with sailing as a central part of her life, vagabonding on the high seas with her family and sailing from Africa to the UK. As she got older, she spent more time ashore, starting a traveling theatre company with her husband and kids and bouncing around the UK, France and S...
Liz Wardley // A Sailor Smashing Records in the Worlds Toughest Row
On the Wind Sailing - March 19, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 500 ratingsSailor, kitesurfer, and paddler Liz Wardley returns to the show to talk with Emma about her record-breaking row across the Atlantic. She completed the World's Toughest Row at the end of January after 44 days at sea. She beat the previous record by 15 days. Liz has competed many times in The Ocea...
Capt. Jennifer Kaye // Schooner WOODWIND & Trans-Atlantic on FALKEN
On the Wind Sailing - March 12, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 500 ratingsCapt. Jen of Schooner WOODWIND returns to the podcast after having just sailed with Andy aboard FALKEN on the 2,100 mile passage across the Atlantic! Jen and Andy reflect on Jen's first big ocean crossing and what it was like to leave the wintry Chesapeake Bay for tropical Tradewind sailing. The...
Emily Caruso // Pro Sailor & Empathetic Leader
On the Wind Sailing - February 06, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 500 ratingsEmily Caruso has spent 18 years and counting as a professional sailor, though only first learning about the sport in her late 20s. Growing up in the countryside in England, Emily had an epiphany one day during a weekend sailing excursion and hasn't looked back since. Andy & Emily sat down in per...
Jens Joachim Hiorth // Tall Ship Captain
On the Wind Sailing - January 30, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 500 ratingsJens Joachim Hiorth is the Captain of the Statsraad Lehmkuhl, the largest and oldest tall ship in Norway. The ship recently completed a circumnaivation around the great capes. August joined the Captain onboard the ship for a conversation on the particulars of running such a large ship on the hig...
Bill Strassberg // The Viking Route
On the Wind Sailing - January 23, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 500 ratingsBill Strassberg literally wrote the book on the Viking Route, authoring the latest edition of the Cruising Club of America's guide to the far northern route across the Atlantic. Andy first got in touch with Bill when researching FALKEN's Greenland passage last summer and caught up with him late ...
Cosima Franchini // Yacht Captain & Business Owner
On the Wind Sailing - January 16, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 500 ratingsCosima grew up on the Puget Sound where her family nurtured a love of sailing and old classic boats. In college she worked on tall ships in the PNW but eventually she landed on the east coast where she found a community of friends who worked on private classic yachts. She spent her twenties purs...
Matt Steverson // The Duracell Project
On the Wind Sailing - January 09, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 500 ratingsBen Doerr sat down with Matt from The Duracell Project YouTube channel. Matt and his wife Janni are refitting Mike Plant's famous Open 60 "Duracell" into a comfortable cruising boat. Sitting in the cockpit of Duracell outside of Port Townsend, Matt and Ben discuss Matt's cruising and boatbuildin...
Capt. Jan Miles Returns // PRIDE OF BALTIMORE II
On the Wind Sailing - January 02, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 500 ratingsCaptain Jan Miles returns to the podcast! Andy first sat down with Jan onboard Maryland's flagship PRIDE OF BALTIMORE II tallship way back in 2015 for a fascinating interview tracing Jan's career at sea. We return to the Captain's Cabin onboard PRIDE for this second, meandering chat about seaman...
Elliot Rappaport // Reading the Glass
On the Wind Sailing - December 26, 2023 15:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 500 ratingsElliot Rappaport has been a captain of sailing ships for the past three decades. He currently is a faculty member at Maine Maritime Academy, where he lives nearby with his wife and their dog. Elliot also sailed as a captain for many miles with Sea Education Association, an organization that offe...
Mats Grimsæth // Explorer and Photographer
On the Wind Sailing - December 19, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 500 ratingsMats Grimsæth is a professional skipper, photographer and lecturer. He’s the youngest person to ever skipper a boat around the island of Spitsbergen on Svalbard, which is where he first met August. He has a great passion for the sea and for his fellow human beings. Having had a difficult time in...
Wendy Mitman Clarke // SAIL Magazine Editor
On the Wind Sailing - December 12, 2023 11:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 500 ratingsWendy Mitman Clarke is the editor-in-chief at SAIL magazine and a long-time cruiser herself. I work with Wendy regularly as a columnist for SAIL, but had never actually sat down to talk about her own background. I caught up with her at the Annapolis Sailboat Show in October, and from the Captain...
Andy, Mia, Adam & Alex // FALKEN Season 1 Debrief
On the Wind Sailing - December 05, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 500 ratingsLast week Mia, Bosun Adam Browne and Chief Mate Alex Laline and I sat down in the salon of FALKEN to reflect on what's been a busy, stressful and ultimately successful first season on our newly refit Farr 65. We've truly come a long way since one year ago this time, when we were scrambling to ge...
Paul & Sheryl Shard // Distant Shores & the OG YouTubers
On the Wind Sailing - November 07, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 500 ratingsPaul & Sheryl Shard of Distant Shores are truly the OG YouTubers, having filmed and produced videos of their sailing adventures for over 25 years. I met up with them in person at the Annapolis Sailboat Show a few weeks ago to talk about their transition from broadcast TV to YouTube and if that's...
Jake Beattie // Everyday Heroes and the Race to Alaska
On the Wind Sailing - October 31, 2023 03:34 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 500 ratingsIn Jake Beattie’s words, the Race to Alaska "celebrates and illuminates life’s everyday heroes". Jake is one of those people. Aside from creating and organizing the Race to Alaska, he is also the executive director of the Northwest Maritime Center located in Port Townsend, Washington: a non-prof...
Jade & Ben // Sailing the Northwest Passage
On the Wind Sailing - October 24, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 500 ratingsBen and Jade Couturier recently completed the Northwest Passage on their Navy 44 Caprivi. They bought the boat in 2016, looking to make it their traveling home. Ben and Jade took Caprivi through an impressive rebuild while living aboard and working in the Florida Keys. In June 2022, they set sai...
Matt Rutherford // Greenland, Grass & Groundings
On the Wind Sailing - October 20, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 500 ratings#411: If you’ve been around this podcast for awhile, Matt Rutherford won’t be a stranger to you. Famous for being the first person to sail solo & non-stop around the Americas, he’s now the operator/co-director of the non-profit organization, OCEAN RESEARCH PROJECT, and has his own, amazing podca...
Mark Sinclair // Retro Racing around the World
On the Wind Sailing - October 12, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 500 ratingsMark Sinclair has sailed the seas his entire life, both professionally and as a hobby. He served for 20 years in the Royal Australian Navy, commanding three ships and navigating four, at the time when celestial was still the primary means of offshore navigation. He participated in both the 2018 ...
Andy & Mia // The Evolution of 59º North
On the Wind Sailing - October 05, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 500 ratingsAndy & Mia sit down to talk about the past 5-6 years of 59º North and how it's evolved from a "lifestyle" business to an "actual" business, with investors, lots of staff and high stakes! They talk about the rollercoaster of emotions, the stress, the joys and the future (which is exciting—make su...
Evgeniy “Ev” Goussev // Stowaway Escape from the USSR
On the Wind Sailing - September 26, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 500 ratingsEvgeniy “Ev” Goussev was born in the far east of Russia, where he began sailing at the age of five, and was soon competing in a variety of classes while having a grand adventure on the sea with his father and friends. As the Soviet Union began to deteriorate and in-fighting became dangerous, his...
Peter Bruce // What Kind of Sailor Authors 'Heavy Weather Sailing'
On the Wind Sailing - September 19, 2023 10:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 500 ratingsPeter Bruce is both a sailor and a writer of sailing. He most famously wrote the last four editions of the world-famous book HEAVY WEATHER SAILING having taken over from the original author Adlard Coles. A life-time of achievements on the water qualify him to write with such esteemed authority. ...
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