This Sailing life....a wonderful variety of podcasts from the world of sailing

Welcome to another edition of This Sailing Life with me your marine podcaster Ceri Hurford-Jones. Thank you so much for joining me today as I can promise you an illuminating listen, as I get to talk to Steven and Howard Silverstein from Arthur Edison, LLC These guys are the amazing founders and directors of something called CLiX – a product that looks set to transformthe marine world both practica...

Welcome to another edition of This Sailing Life. I can promise you an illuminating listen, as I get to talk to Pierrick Ledard. Pierrick is the maître de Port principal at the Port of Barneville-Cartere in Normandy, located only a fewhours from the Channel Islands and St Malo. The reason I wanted to record this episode is that having spent the winter in this marina I wanted to share withyou some o...

The 2025 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is an endurance challenge like no other. Nothing on earth compares to this true test of endurance; covering 40,000 nautical miles whilst enduring anything and everything Mother Nature can throw at you whilst racing neck and neck against 10 other teams Along the way the yachts and their teams could face the fierce swells of the Roaring Forties, the isolat...

Capt. Jon Kidd has over 25 years of experience in the marine industry, from stewarding on small passenger vessels to Captain of Red Funnel ferries. He has also been a Cowes Pilot for the last 7 years. Jon was previously a Deputy Harbour Master in Cowes and rejoins from Trinity House, where he was the Inspector of Seamarks. On this podcast, after just 6 weeks in the role, he talks to Ceri about his...

Hello and welcome to The PredictWind podcast with me Ceri Hurford-Jones This show is all about how this amazing weather portal came about, through its early days of gestation to the huge amounts of financial investment now invested in collecting the data to make it what has become. We also get to find out more about the people behind it including Jon Bilger the founder and CEO along with an early...

The podcast version of a recent Yachting Monthly article where Marine podcaster Ceri talks to Rachael Sprot about the story behind the story! They say that relationships formed at sea can founder on shore, but sit back with a glass of wine in a busy marina and you’ll find evidence of the reverse in action too. There’s no shortage of couples taking their relationships afloat with varying degrees of...

For this episode, marine podcaster Ceri Hurford-Jones meets two heavyweights of the yachting world to talk about perhaps the best known pilot book of them all, The Shell Channel Pilot. The sailing legend that is Tom Cunliffe is handing over editorship of this long-lived and authoritative tome to its first woman compiler, Rachael Sprot, herself a rising star in the world of sailing writing and from...

For this edition I got to to meet up with some of the people who make Lochboisdale and its marina in the Outer Hebrides so special. If you have never visited the area then hopefully this episode will give you some encouragement to do so..... Lochboisdale is an excellent arrival point to explore the 120 miles of this Island chain In this episode you'll hear from the Marina Manager Donald Curry tell...

What's the biggest challenge in purchasing spare parts. The biggest challenge is knowing exactly which part is required and where to source them at the best terms?  Boatclick say they have the solution....Ori Gail talks to Ceri about his plans to revolutionise the boat spares market  https://www.boat-click.com/ 

Today I’m meeting up with David Moore the man behind VIZI Berth, an on-line booking system and app that was born out of the fact that many south coast marinas are now appear to be full, with potential visitors becoming more and more frustrated by the log jam that’s ensued. Vizi berth are now collecting email addresses for people who would like to be notified when the app goes live – to do so just...

Today I’m meeting up with Thomas Guy and Chris Jacobs These are the guys behind SailTies, an app that’s becoming known as the Strava for sailing. Basically they’ve created a modern alternative to the paper log book, essentially it's the first place where you can capture everything about a sailing voyage together. For more information and to try the app for free just goto https://sailties.net/&nbsp...

Welcome to another edition in our series Explore More with Imray as Ceri Hurford-Jones talks to more of the contributors that work with Imray. Today’s guests are Rod and Lu Heikell, editors of the Greek Waters Pilot and Ionian Growing up in the west country Lu gained a love of cruising and dinghy sailing from her father, Peter. Then met up with her husband Rod in 1999 when she joined him as crew o...

In this Imray podcast together with The Royal Cruising Club Pilotage Foundation, Jo Winter talks with Marine Podcaster Ceri Hurford-Jones about her favourite area, together with some words of advice for both the new and returning cruiser. The South China Sea pilot books cover Singapore to Hong Kong via the Gulf of Thailand, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines and Taiwan. Jo first visited Southeast A...

Podcaster Ceri Hurford-Jones talks to 19 year old Peter Russell , who despite being reasonably experienced and knowledgeable for his age, found that people wouldn’t take his sailing dreams seriously. He was hell bent on proving them wrong, initially setting about doing dinghy cruising, he rapidly found that planning and completing his own cruises required a lot more forethought and knowledge than...

Today’s special guests not only know about all the places to visit, but they will probably help influence your culinary choices on the way! On this podcast they talk about some of their experiences sailing to some of the most amazing and uplifting coastlines around. Born in New Zealand, Rod Heikell , abandoned academic life in the UK, and sailed a 1950s, 20 foot plywood yacht down to the Mediterra...

Ricky discovered the thrill of sailing relatively late in his life after booking a sailing holiday on a whim for his family. He then signed up for a Round-The-World yacht race, billed as the "Worlds Toughest Yacht Race" - the Global Challenge 2004-5. That experience decided Ricky's future and he gave up his high powered career in IT. Wind forward fifteen years and Ricky has now clocked up 260,000...

Nigel Rennie started sailing in 1984 whilst serving in the Army (REME). He qualified as a Yachtmaster Instructor in 1990 becoming an RYA Examiner a few years later. He’s skippered large sail training yachts worldwide, crossing most of the oceans and venturing south as far as the Falkland Islands. Presently Rear Commodore Sailing for Warsash Sailing Club, Nigel splits his sailing time between instr...

Managing Director Lucy Wilson talks to podcaster Ceri Hurford-Jones about Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson Ltd nautical publications, who produce over 250 charts, 100 pilot books and cruising guides, along with a series of apps for the digital era. It’s a time of change, not only for Imray but also within the wider marine industry as sailing habits are changing and technology open up huge opportuni...

An Adventures Onboard podcast..... Ceri and Carol are on a circumnavigation of the UK in 2022 and 2023 on this podcast they provide some honest answers to your wonderful questions. 

Carol is interviewed on Wiltshire Sound about our lifestyle and her business on board the good ship Wakonda ...enjoy!

One skippers confession when out sailing with his family.........a great listen for sailors or non sailors!

Jane and Carol share their experiences about becoming qualified RYA Day Skippers. After a gruelling week on board a yacht in the Solent they faced not only the challenge of force 8 gales all week but also the constant pressure to get the best out of themselves and the boat.