Passages From The Heart Podcast

Welcome, sailors, to another episode of the Passages From the Heart podcast! In today’s episode, I talk with Owen Murphy, founder/owner of Meridian Marine Electrical! Recently, I had the pleasure of working with Owen to help me convert my Com-Pac 23, Charm’s , former AGM battery system to a new lithium battery system. He also helped me demystify the electrical system onboard Charisma , my Com-Pac...

Welcome, sailors! I have a wonderful interview for you! In this podcast episode, I speak with an absolutely AMAZING sailor and woman — Suzanne Heywood, author of the international bestseller book titled, Wavewalker: A Memoir of Breaking Free. At the age of seven, with her family and a bare-bones crew, Suzanne departed Plymouth, England, for what turned out to be a ten-year odyssey of sailing, thro...

What does the soul of sailing mean to you? In this episode, I sit down with my childhood sailing friend, Brian Nicholson, and we talk about how sailing has shaped our lives and what sailing means to us. From his earliest days of sailing solo on his Laser, to crewing aboard his family’s San Juan 24, and then later racing as an adult, on his own sailboat -- a Hobie Cat 16 -- Brian shares how sailing...

What do you get when you cross a small sailboat with big water? You get Mitchell Loner, aka, “Mitch,” as his YouTube followers call him. For over two years, Mitch has been providing his YouTube viewers with inspirational, educational, creative, and entertaining content with his popular ‘Small Sailboat Big Water’ YouTube channel. In today’s podcast, Mitch shares all sorts of salty tales not only ab...

I’ve got an absolutely stellar show for you! Join me as I interview Jerome Rand, sailor, podcaster, and author of Sailing Into Oblivion: The Solo Non-stop Voyage of the Mighty Sparrow . Jerome is also the creator and host of the popular sailing podcast of the same name, Sailing Into Oblivion. In 2017 - 2018, Jerome set sail aboard his 43-year old sailboat, a Westsail 32 called the Mighty Sparrow ,...

Join me as I interview a fellow YouTuber, Squally Heifer of Squally Heifer Adventures, in which we talk ‘all things Com-Pac Legacy!’ Both Squally and I own Com-Pac Legacy sailboats; in this episode, we swap stories about the ins and outs of what it’s like to be the steward of a Legacy. We also discuss the boat as a trailer sailer, how to set-up and rig the boat, and, of course, what it’s like to s...

Get ready to voyage from the remote south coast fjords of Newfoundland to the steamy jungle of Panama and adventures in between! I chat with author, sailor, podcaster, artist, surfer, and adventurer Paul Trammell as he shares inspiring stories of chasing his dreams and how he came to find peace living aboard Windflower , his beautiful 1972 Cartwright 40. Before Paul started chasing dreams aboard W...

In today’s episode, I chat with Tomas Fehrling, a Swedish solo sailor who is currently circumnavigating aboard his 2010 Dufour 40e Performance, SY Saoirse . I came to know of Tomas as a result of discovering his sailing blog, sysaoirse.com , a little over two years ago. Since that time, I’ve been following Tomas’ incredible journey, with Saoirse , throughout Europe, the Med, across the Atlantic in...

In my inaugural podcast episode, I hangout with a fellow Com-Pac owner and my good friend, Ken Johansen. Ken has owned a Com-Pac 16, a Com-Pac 19, a Com-Pac 23, and he currently sails aboard a Com-Pac Sun Cat — in other words, Ken knows Com-Pac boats and he shares lots of insight and experiences regarding his stewardship of all of these amazing models from the line-up, past and present, at Com-Pac...