Sailing in the Mediterranean and Beyond

Dylan Magaster In person meeting in Cape Verde part 2   I met in person Dylan Magaster in Cape Verde.  About half way thorough the interview we both realized that we had talked before in 2020 Below are the show notes for that interview!……   —————— I received this email from Dylan, so how could I resist the interview invitation! Hello, My na...

Sailing in the Mediterranean and Beyond Episode 270 Gota Canal Sweden with Neil Fletcher This is a interview with Neil Fletcher about his summer 2022 sail across Sweden via the Gota Canal You can find out more information on Neil at https://www.sailingarcturus.com/ Dan Culpepper is doing the Race2Alaska in his boat Team Hornblower you can track him here. A am planning on selling my Boat See Dream...

Sailing in the Mediterranean Episode 27 Spike Hampson Pt. 2 This is the second of 2 podcasts of my interview with Spike Hampson talking about his journey in a small boat enroute from Wyoming to Buenos Aries Argentina. If you want a copy the book by Elias Kulukundis called Feasts of Memory. Let me know how you can pay for postage. I have several copies that I am willing to give that to my listeners...

This is the first of 2 podcasts of my interview with Spike Hampson talking about his journey in a small boat enroute from Wyoming to Buenos Aries Argentina. If you want a copy the book by Elias Kulukundis called Feasts of Memory. Let me know how you can pay for postage. I have several copies that I am willing to give to my listeners but I don’t want to pay for postage. If you have comments o...

Sailing the North Atlantic Crossing East to West pt 2 w Dan Culpepper I consider Dan Culpepper a good friend and now a great skipper listen as he tells us how he went about Sailing the North Atlantic Crossing East to West pt 2 Dan I started this conversation and we ended up breaking it up into two individual podcasts because he tells such great stories here is a link to his website he has a lot of...

Sailing in the Mediterranean and Beyond Episode 269 Atlantic Crossing Report This is a quick summarized report on the 2023 Atlantic Crossing       IMG_0038 Crew member Robb This is a quick summarized report on the 2023 Atlantic Crossing IMG_0020     Want me to go sailing with you? Then contact me! If you have ideas for future podcasts or comments please drop me a note! and...

Sailing the North Atlantic Crossing East to West pt 1 w Dan Culpepper I consider Dan Culpepper a good friend and now a great skipper listen as he tells us how he went about Sailing the North Atlantic Crossing East to West pt 1 Dan I started this conversation and we ended up breaking it up into two individual podcasts because he tells such great stories here is a link to his website he has a lot of...

Dan Culpepper sailing Italy to Portugal Dan Culpepper returns to share his story of sailing Italy to Portugal last summer, by way of Sardinia, Spain, and Morocco.  Dan is a great story teller and it is great to talk to him again! Here is a link to his website: http://sailingheldeleine.com/resources/ Here is the link I said I would share about Croatia Anchorages in the introduction http://www.wosam...

This is the fourth part of the interview with my friend Dan Culpepper after his epic voyage aboard sailing vessel Heldeleine across the Atlantic and into the Mediterranean. In This episode we make it to his wintering spot in Gaeta Italy. Here is a link to his website: http://sailingheldeleine.com/resources/ Sailing! Learn to Sail: Basic Keelboat Certification Lessons for the ASA 101 Exam https://g...

Sailing! Learn To Sail: Bareboat Cruising Certification Lessons for the ASA 104 Exam Price $29.99 https://gumroad.com/l/bwXh 8 Hours 10 Minutes: 23 Lessons audio course Sailing in the Mediterranean Episode 78 Dan Culpepper Pt 2 This is the third part of the interview with my friend Dan Culpepper after his epic voyage aboard sailing vessel Heldeleine across the Atlantic and into the Mediterranean....

Sailing! Learn To Sail: Bareboat Cruising Certification Lessons for the ASA 104 Exam Price $29.99 https://gumroad.com/l/bwXh 8 Hours 10 Minutes: 23 Lessons audio course Sailing in the Mediterranean Episode 78 Dan Culpepper Pt 2 This is the second part of the interview with my friend Dan Culpepper after his epic voyage aboard sailing vessel Heldeleine across the Atlantic and into the Mediterranean....

Sailing in the Mediterranean Episode 77 Dan Culpepper Pt 1 It's great to catch up with my friend Dan Culpepper after his epic voyage aboard sailing vessel Heldeleine across the Atlantic and into the Mediterranean. This is the first part of a two-part interview which does not even begin to scratch the surface of his experiences this past summer. I will post the next episode next week but there's st...

This is the second part of a two part interview with Captain Skip Strong and Twain Braden of: In Peril: A Daring Decision, a Captain’s Resolve, and the Salvage that Made History When Skip Strong, the thirty-two-year-old Captain of the 688-foot oil tanker Cherry Valley received the call, all he knew was that an ocean going tug with five men aboard was in distress off Florida’s east coas...

In this podcast I interview Captain Skip Strong and Twain Braden of: In Peril: A Daring Decision, a Captain’s Resolve, and the Salvage that Made History When Skip Strong, the thirty-two-year-old Captain of the 688-foot oil tanker Cherry Valley received the call, all he knew was that an ocean going tug with five men aboard was in distress off Florida’s east coast. Caught in an unusually...

  Sailing! Learn to Sail: Basic Coastal Cruising; Lessons for the ASA 103 Exam Price $29.99 https://gumroad.com/l/PvOYK over 9 hours: 19 lesson audio course This is the final third part of a three-part interview that I conducted with Brion Toss the author of the Riggers apprentice. Brian is one of those rare individuals who both appreciates the art and the utility of his craft. He is a master...

  Sailing! Learn to Sail: Basic Keelboat Certification Lessons for the ASA 101 Exam Price $29.99 https://gumroad.com/l/Eiig 7 hour 6 minute: 16 lesson audio course Blog Post: This is the second part of a three-part interview that I conducted with Brion Toss the author of the Riggers apprentice. Brian is one of those rare individuals who both appreciates the art and the utility of his craft. H...

Sailing! Learn To Sail: Bareboat Cruising Certification Lessons for the ASA 104 Exam Price $29.99 https://gumroad.com/l/bwXh 8 Hours 10 Minutes: 23 Lessons audio course This is the first part of a three-part interview that I conducted with Brion Toss the author of the Riggers apprentice. Brian is one of those rare individuals who both appreciates the art and the utility of his craft. He is a maste...

This is the story of how I went from being a dreamer of becoming a sailor as a child in landlocked Utah to realizing my dream and becoming a sailor with my boat in the Mediterranean.

I is hard to believe but it’s been almost 2 years since I last talked with my sailing acquaintance Jules Dusek. So in this  episode I catch up on him and his travels through the French canals. In 2013 he and his wife he did the Canal De Bourgogne. This is a slightly-used canal in France which requires a boat with the shallower draft. Fortunately his boat has a drop keel which allowed him to...

Sailing in the Mediterranean Episode 269 Andrew Vic 2022 pt 2 Croatia to Sicily This is an interview with Andrew Vic where we talk about his 2022 summer sail from Croatia to Sicily Links to the Google Earth kmz files are below Hi Franz, you can post this link in the show notes: http://sailgeja.com/geja2022.kmz Folks are also welcome to have the entire library: http://sailgeja.com/geja2008-2022.kmz...

Sailing in the Mediterranean Episode 268 Andrew Vic 2022 pt 1 Croatia to Sicily This is an interview with Andrew Vic where we talk about his 2022 summer sail from Croatia to Sicily Links to the Google Earth kmz files are below Hi Franz, you can post this link in the show notes: http://sailgeja.com/geja2022.kmz Folks are also welcome to have the entire library: http://sailgeja.com/geja2008-2022.kmz...

Sailing in the Mediterranean and Beyond Episode 267 Celestial Navigation with Will Lesh Will Lesh produced 2 great instructional videos on learning Celestial Navigation I highly recommend them! https://youtu.be/-ARXW8InStY https://youtu.be/yu5R5mrrGB0 Also he has some really cool kits for building wooden radio controlled boats https://sailingisme.com/ https://sailingis.com/ http://modelsailboat.co...

Sailing in the Mediterranean and Beyond Episode 266 Neil Fletcher Summer 2022 Report Here is a report of the  summer sail 2022 in Sweden of Neil Fletcher Neils website which has much more detail of his summer sail is https://www.sailingarcturus.com/ Contact me if you are interested in doing a leg of the 2023 Atlantic Passag e franz1 at medsailor dot com Want me to go sailing with you? Then contact...

Sailing in the Mediterranean Episode 265 Ocean Passages with Darren and Amanda pt.2 This is the second interview with Darren and Amanda with Ocean Passages What started out as a passion for travel, turned into a love of sailing How it started Darren and Amanda launched their sailing journey several years ago with a dream to scuba dive from their sailboat in the most remote corners of this world. T...

Sailing in the Mediterranean Episode 264 Ocean Passages with Darren and Amanda This is an interview with Darren and Amanda with Ocean Passages What started out as a passion for travel, turned into a love of sailing How it started Darren and Amanda launched their sailing journey several years ago with a dream to scuba dive from their sailboat in the most remote corners of this world. The pandemic q...