Slow Boat Sailing Podcast

Checking into Panama was not easy or quick.  In this episode, I explain how I and the Slow Boat skipper ended up over $400 poorer and made two trips into Colon over four days and four government office visits including paying an agent. In my experience, both the immigration officer and Cristobal Port Captain refused to process my completed paperwork. I muse whether the government officials financi...

We are podcasting from Panama! The Slow Boat sailed from Providencia, Colombia to Colon, Panama, the entrance to the Panama canal about 250 miles on the 4th multiple night passage since leaving New Orleans on April 29. Get details of the engine blowout 45 miles from Panama and how the crew of the Slow Boat came into port under their own power.   This week’s guest is Dominique Truelove of the  S/V...

We’re podcasting from Providencia, Colombia in the middle of the Caribbean Sea. We are preparing for the next weather window to take us to Panama. We talked to  Don McIntyre  the creator of the  2018 50th Anniversary Golden Globe race . Small stout boats without electrical gadgetry like GPS will engage in the "slowest race in the world," reliving the famous 1968 race.  Mr. McIntyre think the winne...

We're podcasting from Providencia, Colombia in the middle of the Caribbean Sea. We just finished a four-day passage from Cayo Largo del Sur, Cuba to this beautiful oasis in the wild blue waters of the Western Caribbean.   On this episode, we interview Jeffrey Wettig of www.theescapepods.com's Shooting the Breeze Sailing Podcast.  We learn about how he got into sailing early in life and talk about...

The Slow Boat Sailing Podcast is in Cuba! We talk about our trip to Nueva Gerona, Cuba to Cayo Largo on the Caribbean coast of Cuba. In April before the Slow Boat set sail for Cuba, I talked to  Captain Cheryl Barr  who wrote the recent  Cruising Guide to Cuba: Volume 1  which covers Varadero, Havana, Cabo San Antonio, Cienfuegos, and Trinidad and all the places the Slow Boat visited. Cheryl Barr...

We are podcasting from Cuba! In this episode we talk to Tyler Bradt, profession white water kayaker and captain of SV  Wizard's Eye . We talk about his round the world expedition. He tells us he cast off the dock lines with a month of sailing experience and very little prep time for his simply outfitted 42' steel cutter Wizard's Eye. Here about the Slow Boat's 3-day offshore trip from Venice, Flor...

We spoke to  Doina Cornell  about the rallies organized by  Cornell Sailing  and the SV  Aventura 's recent attempts and crossing of the Northwest Passage.  She also tells us about her book  Child of the Sea  about her childhood circumnavigating the globe in a sailboat her parents built. This episode is sponsored by  Jenifer Clark's Gulfstream . The Slow Boat crew relied on Jenifer Clark's Gulfstr...

Nike Steiger of  White Spot Pirates  tells us about why she dropped everything and bought her boat Karl in Panama. She gives trash and laundry tips for cruisers floating far off the grid. Learn the origins of her YouTube channel ‘s name and her boat’s name. Find out about when she almost gave up the dream of sailing around the world all together. You can get a bonus episode of White Spot Pirates w...

Get the Slow Boat Sailing Podcast on  Stitcher  and  iTunes ! Wes and Kate talk about how they bought their first boat in the summer of 2014, an Ericson 30+ on Craigslist for $11,500 and within months were headed south for the Bahamas making great videos on  YouTube  along the way. They cruised the Bahamas in that boat in the Northern Exumas, Nassau, Eleuthera, and the Abacos before deciding to se...

Never before released audiobook versions of chapters 1, 2, and 3 of  Slow Boat to the Bahamas  are free to Slow Boat Sailing Podcast listeners. You can get chapters 4, 5, and 6 if you pledge as little as $1 to the Slow Boat Sailing Podast’s  Patreon site .  Patrons get bonus content as well as a the free audiobook of the #1 sailing bestseller  How to Sail Around the World Part-Time . Check out our...

I recorded this talk on anchoring techniques at the 2016 Southwestern International Boat Show in Houston.  Greg Kutsen M.D. is the founder of Mantus Anchors, which is a sponsor of Slow Boat Sailing.  Download the presentation for that talk to refer to the numbers for your boat.   Mantus Anchors Anchoring Presentation   Support the Slow Boat Sailing Podcast on Patreon!   There are great gifts such...

We caught up with the crew of SV Delos in South Africa as they plan to round the Cape of Good Hope for the second time in the other direction and cruise Reunion, Mauritius, and eastern Madagascar in their Southern Ocean cruise. Contribute to the  Slow Boat Sailing Podcast on Patreon  so we can hit our $20 goal and give away the eBook of the #1 sailing bestseller Slow Boat to the Bahamas to every s...

This is just a sampling of Dee Caffari's achievements under sail from her  website : "In 2006 Dee became the first woman to sail solo, non-stop, around the world against the prevailing winds and currents and was awarded an MBE in recognition of her achievement. Dee successfully completed the solo, non-stop Vendée Globe Race in 2009, crossing the finish line in 6th place out of an original fleet of...

Jessie Zevalkink talks abouther travels in the Great Loop of the U.S. and Canada during 2013-2014. She and her friend Katie Smith traveled in a 27-foot sailboat fromMichigan to the Bahamas and back with Katie's dog.  Check out their blogin  http://katieandjessieonaboat.com /. Theearly twenty-somethings were like "aliens" in the cruiser communityand were embraced up and down the ICW and featured on...

In episode 7, I spoke to  Kawika Crivello  a crew member on the traditional sailing vessel Hokule’a.  Hokule’a is a two-masted double hulled canoe that is meant to be similar to traditional Polynesian voyaging canoes.  It is over 60′ long and has a crew of about a dozen at any one time.  Kawika has crewed on many parts of its current round the world voyage.  Hokule’a is 41 years old and is maintai...

  Bob McDavitt has been forecasting weather in the South Pacific for forty years including providing weather advice for the New Zealand challengers in the America's Cup and 16-year-old, round-the-world sailor Jessica Watson. He advised about 300 boats last season doing ocean passages in the South Pacific as well as runs a free weather newsletter/blog for over 20 years at http://weathergram.blogspo...

Wally Moran , the coauthor of the new cruising guide to Cuba’s north coast Cuba Bound , talked to me in episode 5. He talks about his sailing career inSV Gypsy Wind and the Sail to the Sun ICW rally that he organizes. Wally did not have an internet signal and was talking outside over a cell phone so the audio of the interview is not as good as for prior episodes and was not as good as it will be f...

This “new” episode 4 replaces the old episode 4. The old episode 4 had poor sound quality due to banging halyards in a 30-knot near-gale. Nadine Slavinski crossed the South Pacific in 2013 and 2014 and wrote about it in her book  Pacific Crossing Notes . We talk in depth about the Slow Boat’s planned cruising grounds for 2017 of the Galapagos and the Marquesas. Nadine also wrote  Lesson Plans Ahoy...

This is the second half of the interview with Tate McDaniel of Sundowner Sails Again  blog  and You Tube  channel.  He talks about sailing his boat from Isla Mujeres, Mexico to the remote island of Providencia, Columbia and then to the San Blas Islands in Panama.  He discusses why El Nino and cheap gas convinced him 2016 was the year to pause his around the world quest and RV across America before...

Tate McDaniel of the Sundowner Sails Again's  blog  and  uTube  channel talked to me over the weekend.  This episode looks at getting his boat, a Westsail 32' named Sundowner, ready for a round the world trip.  This covers the first half of his trip in 2015, crossing the Gulf of Mexico from New Orleans to Key West.  He discusses his travels in Cuba and his trip to and time in Isla Mujeres with his...

Show notes are at https://slowboatsailing.wordpress.com Linus Wilson introduces the podcast and reads from his new book How to Sail Around the World Part-Time available on Amazon.