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Out The Gate Sailing

Benjamin Shaw

A podcast about sailing and adventure on and around San Francisco Bay

sports & recreation outdoor

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43:40

Stan Honey // Part 1: Sailor, Navigator, Inventor,...

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2020/06/15

Stan Honey is a professional navigator, inventor, and businessman who’s won 11 Transpacs, the Volvo Ocean Race, and set a non-stop circumnavigation record a transatlantic speed record. In addition to being a successful navigator he’s an accomplished inventor and businessman. He pioneered on-screen navigation for cars, and invented the technology that superimposes the first down line in yellow for football game. He and his wife, Sally Lindsay Honey, race and cruise aboard their Cal 40 Illusion.

36:21

Jim Quanci // Three Decades of Ocean Racing: It’s a...

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2020/06/01

Jim Quanci has been sailing and racing on San Francisco Bay since the early 80s. He’s raced to Hawaii 18 times, once with his whole family, once alone, and many times with his wife - whom he met while racing on the Bay. Jim has sailed many miles on his Cal 40 Green Buffalo and many more all over the world on charter boats. In this episode, we talk about what’s changed in racing over the years, his race strategy, single handing, and what he loves most about being out there on the water.

48:30

Ryan Nelson // Making a Career Out of a Passion for...

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2020/05/18

Ryan Nelson has loved being on the water from a very young age. As a kid he cobbled together logs, a pole, and some fabric into a sailing raft. Today, as the owner and operator of Rogue Rigging, he’s still working on boats - and loving it. He spent nearly a decade rigging for West Marine before striking out on his own. I sat down with Ryan in his rigging shop at the Berkeley Marine Center and we talked about his business, his four boats, and his passion for racing on San Francisco Bay.

46:08

John Neal // What 300,000 Miles at Sea Will Teach You...

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2020/05/05

At the age of 22, John Neal bought a 27-foot Albin Vega sloop and set off from Seattle headed for Hawaii. His book chronicling that voyage, Log of Mahina, became a best seller and people started seeking him out to ask: "How can I find and prepare a boat for ocean voyaging?" In 1976 he began conducting Offshore Cruising Seminars and in 1990, to meet the requests for hands-on offshore instruction, John established Mahina Expeditions. He’s sailed 342,000 miles in the South Pacific, Caribbean,

55:42

Kame Richards // 46 Years of Sailmaking, Racing, and...

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2020/04/20

When Kame Richards started Pineapple Sails in 1973, he’d only been sailing a handful of times. Forty-six years later, his business is still going strong and he’s learned a whole lot about sailmaking and sailing. In this interview we talk about his business, tides and currents on SF Bay, racing to Hawaii under a full moon, and the Alameda Community Sailing Center which he recently launched.

54:29

Sailing Totem // The Gifford Family of Five Spends...

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2020/04/06

In 2008, Behan and Jamie Gifford set sail from Seattle with their three children, Niall, Mairen, and Siobhan. Their Stevens 47, Totem, took them down to Mexico, across the pacific, and beyond. Almost exactly ten years later they crossed their own track, completing a circumnavigation. They are currently in Mexico, where they had planned to set sail for another Pacific crossing, before the Coronavirus pandemic put those plans on hold. You can follow their adventure at sailingtotem.com

58:18

John Kretschmer // Philosopher, Professional...

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2020/03/23

John Kretschmer is a philosopher sailor and a great storyteller - in the vein of Bernard Moitessier. As a sailor he’s logged more than 300,000 offshore sailing miles. He’s taught thousands of people about ocean sailing, imparting his knowledge in person and through his writing. He’s the author of At the Mercy of the Sea, Flirting with Mermaids, Cape Horn to Starboard, and most recently Sailing to the Edge of Time - which just last week came out as an Audio book. I sat down with John when he was in

51:22

Rich Jepsen // Matching a Love of Sailing with a...

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2020/03/10

Rich Jepsen found his life’s work at age 14, when he was allowed to take a small boat out sailing for the day by himself. Eight years later he got his first gig teaching sailing, and he’s continued that work to the present. He was an owner, operator and CEO of OCSC Sailing School in Berkeley for over 30 years. Today, while still teaching sailing and leading sailing trips around the world, he’s also Vice President of U.S. Sailing. In 2017 Rich received the Timothea Larr Award for his outstanding

52:25

Schwarzman & Rucker // A Family of Four Circles the...

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2020/02/24

In January 2018, Caitlin Schwarzman and Jason Rucker set sail with their son Arlo and daughter Alma, from Alameda for a year-long adventure through the Pacific. Their boat Debonaire is a 44-foot double-ended wooden ketch - and is the sister ship to a boat Caitlin went cruising on with her parents in the 1970s. We discussed getting themselves and their boat ready for the trip, the adventure itself, and how it brought them closer as a family. You can find their blog at: www.ayearandaday.net

30:33

Elana Connor // Part 2: Finding Yourself, Alone, in...

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2020/02/10

In part two of this two part interview, Elana Conner talks about sailing solo across the Pacific: what made her think she could accomplish it in the first place, what lessons she learned after she got out there, and why it’s made her feels more like herself than ever. We talk weather, electronics, and the frustrations of sailing in the wrong direction. Follow and support Elana at www.peregrinasails.com

31:19

Elana Connor // Part 1: From Foster Care to Sailing...

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2020/02/03

As a child, Elana Conner lost both of her parents and spent her school years in foster care, hoping from family to family. She struggled, but managed to finish high school and then college. She learned to sail in San Francisco, less than a decade ago. But personal difficulties and strong mentors convinced her she needed to follow her dream of circumnavigating on her own boat sooner rather than later. She recently sailed across the pacific solo, arriving in New Zealand a little over a month ago. In

32:30

Lauren Moody // The Frustrations and Joy of...

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2020/01/20

Lauren Moody fell in love with the sea when she served in the Navy aboard an aircraft carrier. But it wasn’t until after her deployment at UCSC that she got into sailing, on boats that were a little smaller. After moving to the San Francisco area a decade ago, she built a community of sailing friends at the Travis Marina. It was there she first laid eyes on Intrepid, a Bob Perry designed Islander Freeport 36. It was in bad shape, nearly sinking at the dock. But it took some time for her to convince

15:25

Rescue at Sea // Why Schedules and Sailing Don’t Mix...

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2020/01/06

In 2001, while cruising in the Caribbean, my girlfriend Miranda had to be evacuated from our boat and taken to a local hospital due to extreme dehydration. It was one of the scariest experiences I’ve had at sea and I wrote about it in Sailing Magazine’s 2002 Safety at Sea issue. In this episode, I retell that story.

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