The Ancient Mariners Sailing Podcast

This week Andrew welcomes Adrian Grigg, shipwright and Chair of Penryn Stakeholders Group and Tom Blakemore, the Penryn Harbour Master to the studio to talk about the ancient harbour of Penryn and initiatives to improve this part of the river and represent the water users based there, from the marine businesses to the live-aboard residents and the mooring holders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...

Here is the second of Andrew's interviews in Kinsale with competitors in the Yachting Monthly Celtic Triangle Race. While a storm breaks over the harbour bound fleet, Chris takes us on a tour of his formidable boat Rockit. The SunFast 3300 is the go to boat for serious offshore short handed racing and Chris who retired following a health scare has thrown himself into making this boat the best it c...

This week Brad is still away cruising, meanwhile Andrew is port bound in Kinsale participating in the Celtic Triangle with fellow competitors including George Isted of the successful sailing YouTube channel Refit and Sail. Andrew nabbed George for a chat aboard his SJ320 to talk about solo sailing, YouTube and his day job as The Solent Boat Butler where he refits and repairs all manner of boats bu...

This week Brad is away on his boat in Portugal after an eventful sail down the coastline from Spain. Andrew is about to head off racing. We hope you enjoy the episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A different episode this week as the cruisers goes cruising and the racer goes racing. Brad joins us from Muros in Spain after sailing single handed across Biscay on his Rustler 36. Andrew is just back from racing to Roscoff on the second race in the COGS Offshore Series. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Brad and Andrew are joined by one of the legends of offshore sailing, Pete Goss, and the race director of the AZAB Sarah Hancock to talk about preperations for the 2027 race. Pete is racing on a Dazcat, built in Plymouth, but despite his circumnavigations and famous exploits has never done the race before. Organisers are working to raise the profile of this classic Cat 1 Ocean Race and P...

This week Brad and Andrew are joined by Amanda Ayliffe. Brad is just about to set sail for Portugal on his Rustler 36 this week if there is enough wind. Andrew is back into racing with COGS and the weekly series. They are joined by Amanda to talk about her interesting life of sailing, from Hong Kong where she was born to parents in the military and where her love of sailing began. With her husband...

Just Brad and Andrew in the studio this week (and Bertie the dog), talking weather and the sailing season so far. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Brad and Andrew welcome the co-designer of Wharram multihulls Hanneke Boon, and Pilot-Cutter skipper and academic, Rebecca Sykes, for a fascinating conversation. We chat about Hanneke's extraordinary life of designing and sailing these revolutionary traditional vessels, founded right here in Devoran. Rebecca is the skipper of the Pilot Cutter Tallulah, and has a list of accomplishments t...

No guest this time so just Andrew, Brad and Bertie in the studio, talking about boat work, the coming season and the upcoming Celtic Triangle Race. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Brad and Andrew this week is Dave Owens, part of the team at Flushing Sailing Club working hard to provide an all tides pontoon for water users from the Flushing Quay. Dave is Chair of the Falmouth Harbour Users Group charity, a flood planning consultant by trade. He was Commodore of Queen Mary Sailing Club among many other notable achievements and has been a life long sailor. Hosted on Ac...

For the first time Brad and Andrew took the show on the road to record in front of an audience at St Mawes Sailing Club. The evening was organised by Social Secretary John Howard and featured special guests, Simon Rowell, who is a meteorologist for the current Olympic team. Our second guest was John Andrew, the president of St Mawes SC and well know face on the Working Boat scene in Falmouth. Host...

This week Brad and Andrew are joined by Paul Miller, Chief Sailing Instructor at the veterans' sailing charity, Turn to Starboard. Paul is getting ready to set out on a circumnavigation of the UK aboard the classic Pilot Cutter, Spirit of Falmouth this summer, with veterans and other small ships in convoy, to take the charity's story to ports and people along the coasts of the four nations. Hosted...

This week Brad and Andrew talk to the CEO of Falmouth Harbour, Miles Carden. Topical topics covered include the recent devastating fire of a classic boat in the harbour and dealing with storm Goretti. Miles gives an insight into the commercial operations of the harbour and shares his own sailing journey as the owner of a classice St Mawes One Design which he bought when he was just 16 years old. P...

Cornish Shrimpers owner and racer Steve Przybylski, talks about the local and wider Shrimper fleet, yacht racing at Mylor and the excitement and dramas of delivering an unreliable motor boat to Cornwall from the Mediterranean. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week it's just Brad with special guest Deborah Maw joining him by phone. Deborah leads a bohemian life, living on the road in her campervan. An activist, mystic, explorer, environmentalist and traveller, her sailing life started early. In 2017 Deborah joined the crew of a vessel which sailed round the British Isles sampling seawater for plastics and other contamination. Sailing from Plymouth,...

This week Brad and Andrew speak to Lydia Paleschi about her Allantic crossings, her trip through the Panama Canal and the ups and downs of boat ownership. Lydia is a travel writer, the author of a book about wild swimming and a YouTuber whose content has been viewed more than 20 million times. She shares stories about bad weather, dodgy skippers and how she finds peace on a long voyage. Hosted on...

This week Brad and Andrew interview the chair of the Cornwall Offshore Group Series Tim Rowley. A technical problem means we lost part 1 of the interview, but luckily we had a second session with Tim and here is that interview, where we talk about changes to COGS racing for 2026, and the impact of Storm Goretti which had just passed over Cornwall as we went on air. So with apologies to Tim for the...

We interrupt normal programming this week with a live interview with the team stationed on one of the UK's most western lighthouses, off the coast of Lands End in Cornwall. Tom Sewell is part of a maintenance team on the lighhouse for the next week. And during the peak of Storm Goretti, Tom shared the experience of what it is like to be 35m up a tower, surrounded by crashing waves and 100mph winds...

This week Brad and Andrew are joined by founder of disability sailing and powerboating charity, Mylor Sailability, Tracey Boyne. Tracey is a life long sailor of dinghies and keel boats. Her passion for outdoor pursuits and teaching led to her becoming the owner of Mylor Sailing School, which led to her founding this excellent charity. Tracey shares her inspiring story on a rain soaked night in Fal...

Brad and Andrew are joined this week by local Falmouth sailmaker Nick Head from SKB. Nick is also a deputy cox on Falmouth lifeboat as well as a busy family man. He was apprenticed into the trade from school and has seen new technology transform the ancient craft. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Local sailors Gilly Fox and Bob Warren join Brad and Andrew this week to share their journey from sailing groms racing dinghies at Restronguet, to offshore double handed in the Around UK and Ireland race and onward on their J39 in the 2,400 mile race to the Azores and Back. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Brad and Andrew are joined by the owner of one of Falmouth's leading sail-makers, Gavin Watson. Penrose has been sail-making for almost 200 years. Gavin has been a successful dinghy sailor, had national championhips wins in J24s, and been part of a Sigma 33 crew in the boom years of the class. After starting at the firm when just 17, Gavin found his calling, and grew with the business un...

This week just Brad and Andrew, with an all things sailing ramble in which Brad shares the gripping tale of how his father was shipwrecked in the Firth of Forth. Chat turns to winter weather and boat maintenance, including the benefits of lithium batteries. Finally Brad shares some excerpts from a great article by local writer Nigel Sharp comparing the America's Cup to the Falmouth Working Boats....

Writer and author of five books, classic yacht enthusiast and former St Mawes Commodore Nigel Sharp joins Brad and Andrew this week. Nigel shares stories from a long career in many aspects of the world of vintage vessels. He has written about and project managed work on some of the most famous sailing yachts, and turning a life long passion into a way to pay the bills through his writing. Along th...