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This week Andy and Brad’s guest is classic boat enthusiast, Jess Clay. In just seven years since a sailing epiphany aboard a boat opened Jess’s eyes to the magic of sailing, she has sailed on a huge number of wooden vessels from Luke Powell’s Pilot Cutter Amelie Rose to the coastal ketch Bessie Ellen and many many others. Jess is active in campaigning to make sailing more welcoming to women, and co-founded Balancing the Boat, a support network for female sailors. She is South West rep for Women in Boat Building, has her own podcast offwatchpodcast.co.uk/ and works as Business Operations Coordinator for Classic Sailing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hanneke Boon is back to talk about what she and her 64ft Wharram catamaran, Spirit of Gaia, have been doing since their return voyage to Falmouth this summer, in time to take part in Falmouth Classics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The wind did blow but mainly from behind, and so it was that Brad and crew Phil made it back from the Açores in 11 days in time for chips at the 'front. With Andrew helping with weather routing along the way. Bertie the dog was very pleased to see him, and so was I as it was definitely his round! Anyway I hope you enjoy this rather free-form episode about Brad's epic voyage back to the land of Saints and tin. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brad and Andrew catch up by phone, with Brad in the Azores, after sailing there single handed. Andrew just competed in the new COGS Wolf Rock race so lots to talk about, and of course we find out how Bertie is! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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/privacy for more information.

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 can be, it's truly a stunning machine and I hope this boat tour brings it to life. Chris is a fantastic chap to chat to about sailing so I hope you enjoy this episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 but with specialist knowledge and experience of the Contessa 32. We hope you enjoy the episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Pete is helping to give things a push along with his envolvment. We talk all things AZAB, about Pete's own dramatic rescue of Raphael Dinelli after his yacht sank in the South Atlantic, and about a forthcoming film about the rescue. Sarah talks about her own sailing story and how she got involved in the race. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Martin who she met at university, the couple returned to the water with a Lark dinghy sailing at Wraysbury, near Heathrow, before moving to Cornwall and sailing in Falmouth. Amanda is about to join an all female crew with eXXpedition to study ocean plastics in the Bay of Islands in New Zealand and then on to Tonga. Amanda has a degree in Psychology and Masters in Sustainable Business Management and is interested in how teams interact. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 too long to list here, both academic and afloat. We chat about bringing traditional sailing methods and construction back to life in the more than 10,000 sets of plans sold by Wharram. Hanneke and Rebecca are about to embark on a voyage home with the original Spirit of Gaia back to Falmouth, aiming to arrive to be part of Falmouth Classics this summer. Enjoy this episode, it's a real treat! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.