Two Hawaiian sailors rescued off Japan by the US Navy told some tall tales about their ordeal at sea in stories covered by all the major news networks. The youtube video of this discussion is at https://youtu.be/vYQLT4jxAcM They said they sailed through a force 11 storm and saw 50-foot sharks in the "Devils Triangle," but those tales were false. The U.S. Navy rescued two Hawaiian women and two dogs off at 50-foot (or 37-foot) sailboat 900 miles from Japan. Jennifer Appel (the captain and owner o...
Nov 06, 2017•50 min•Season 1Ep. 41
This story of disaster at sea has a lot of unanswered questions. You’ll see extensive interviews of the two women rescued 5 months at sea on a 50-foot sailboat adrift in the Pacific Ocean. On May 23, 2017, Jennifer Appel and Natasha Fuiva and the dogs Valentine and Zues departed Oahu, Hawaii in the sailing vessel Sea Nymph bound for Tahiti. On October 25, 2017, they were rescued by the US Navy and Marines of the USS Ashland 900 miles from Japan. Listen to their harrowing story of survival at Sea...
Oct 28, 2017•39 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Capt. Mark J. Reinhardt lost his moored boat in Key West to Hurricane Irma. Capt. Mark J. Reinhardt estimated that 80 percent of the boats in the mooring field of Garrison Bite of Key West were wrecked in his interview on the Slow Boat Sailing podcast episode 39. The Slow Boat was moored in that same mooring field in 2015. Capt. Reinhardt sold everything and fixed up his Ericson 39 sailboat which he cruised the Bahamas in before settling in Key West. He rode out Hurricane Irma on a powerboat tha...
Oct 01, 2017•58 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Linus Wilson talks about his book How to Sail Around the World Part-Time in a seminar at the Southwestern International Boat Show in League City, Texas in April 2017. This show too place at the South Shore Marina off of Clear Lake near the Kemah Boardwalk area. Linus, Janna, and Sophie visited the boardwalk as well as participated in the seminar. You can hear and see the slides from this seminar in this YouTube video below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK9pCIZD77A How to Sail Around the World...
Sep 01, 2017•55 min•Season 1Ep. 38
A few weeks ago the crew of the Tanda Malaika crashed onto a reef near the southern tip of Huahine in the Society Islands of French Polynesia. The family of six was rescued by helicopter and their 46-foot Leopard sailing catamaran was a total loss. Indeed, they are required to pay to tow their wrecked boat out to sea. Linus, Janna, and Sophie met the Tanda Malaika crew days before the wreck in Papeete, Tahiti. Linus Wilson talks to the skipper and dad Dan Govatos about the accident. Subscribe to...
Aug 01, 2017•58 min•Season 1Ep. 37
The crew Sailing Zatara, Mom, Dad, and four kids bought their first sailboat in 2016 and left the dock in November 2016. Now they have sailed past Tahiti headed west around the world. Check out their YouTube channel ! Linus speaks with Dad, Keith, skipper of SV Zatara . Linus Wilson, podcasting from Tahiti, talks about his cruise in the Marquesas and visits to Tahuata, Hiva Oa, and Ua Huka. Our boat has a heavy duty Mantus anchor swivel, Mantus anchor, and a Mantus chain grabber. Get all your Ma...
Jul 12, 2017•52 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Greg Kutsen of Mantus Anchors tells about his cruising in his Ericson sailboat that took him from the shallows of Texas to Mexico, Colombia, Panama and the Galapagos. Along the way he decided he could build a better anchor and started testing prototypes of what would become the Mantus Anchor. We use a Mantus Anchor, chain grabber, and swivel on our boat. Get all your Mantus gear at http://www.mantusanchors.com/?affiliates=15 They also have innovative waterproof lights and dive gear made with the...
Jun 29, 2017•56 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Bobby White creator of the Sailing Doodles YouTube Channel talks about how he lost his career as a pilot and bought a boat for $24,000 to sail the seven seas with his two 90 pound labradoodles and his friend Megan. Check out his channel at https://youtu.be/rTSilpLdXWo?list=PLfyGJYbk3iSr_x19lqmg6H3w19NTpRDBY I posted a few new videos this month. Check them out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ16F6xaaPs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkM6Ihp47Kc&t=5s&index=1&list=PLmISw2WoaEPzmV7r8K...
May 21, 2017•45 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Brian, Brady, and Karin speak to the Slow Boat Sailing Podcast host Linus Wilson about their Indian Ocean sailing adventures. They are between seasons in Cape Town South Africa. They talk about crew changes and future sailing plans. Brady, Brian, and Karin talk about the temptation to sail around Cape Horn before sailing up to the Caribbean. Check out their latest video! https://youtu.be/m9eQAx9neRI?list=PLQp8FoQ4t-lUqUuyau99MEIpyKKDUe_hr Linus bought a new DJI drone for the YouTube channel and ...
Apr 28, 2017•48 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Christian from the SY Zero YouTube channel and blog talks about doing the north Pacific circle from Mexico, to Hawaii, to Alaska, sailing the inside passage, and back to San Diego California. He talks about how he survived a busted rudder and used sails and motor to get back to port under his own power. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE_w_1p3uhI&t=165s Our "On the AIS Segment" guest is the creator of the Adventuresare life (Sailing Windfall) YouTube channel who sails with her previously est...
Mar 11, 2017•59 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Subscribe to the Slow Boat Sailing podcast for free on iTunes and Stitcher ! The Slow Boat was struck by a whale 1,700 nautical miles from its next port and 1,800 nautical miles from its last port of call. The host Linus Wilson tells the tale. He also interviews the creators of Sailing Baby Blue. Check out their YouTube channel and blog ! They sailed from Maine to the Bahamas to the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Vigin Islands, the BVI, Martinique, St. Martin, St. Vincent and the Gren...
Feb 01, 2017•57 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Subscribe to the Slow Boat Sailing podcast for free on iTunes and Stitcher ! Native Alaskans Erik and Meagan bought a boat in the San Fransisco Bay area and sailed it down the often unforgiving California coast to the warm waters of Mexico. It may be a surprise to the followers of their blockbuster, YouTube channel Resolute Sets Sail , what they did next. Instead of turning west to the islands of the south Pacific as is more popular or heading through the Panama canal towards the Caribbean, Erik...
Jan 07, 2017•50 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Tasha Hacker and Ryan Horsnail of the Chase the Story YouTube channel and Turf to Surf blog speak to us about cruising French Polynesia. In the bonus episode available to Patrons , they talk about touring the Galapagos, cruising with pets in the South Pacific, and downwind sailing techniques. My book Slow Boat to Cuba is launching on Amazon on November 21, 2016. To celebrate I am giving away the eBook version on Amazon worldwide. Here are the free and discounted days. 1. November 21, 2016, FREEE...
Nov 21, 2016•57 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Get the Slow Boat Sailing Podcast on Stitcher and iTunes ! Your podcast host has been hard at work on his third book over the last couple months and is ready to share part of it with you. Slow Boat to Cuba does not go up for sale in print and Kindle versions until the end of November, but you can listen to the audiobook now. In this episode, we listen to the the first four of 19 chapters of the audiobook of Slow Boat to Cuba . You can get the full audiobook of Slow Boat to Cuba by pledging as li...
Oct 29, 2016•44 min•Season 1Ep. 28
In this episode we talk to the John and Shannon from Sailing Vessel Prism . Prism is a 33-foot Hans Christian sailboat. They had sailed from Berkeley, California to Costa Rica when I caught up with them in June 2016. (The Slow Boat was in Panama and the internet was not the best for this interview.) Support their great videos on Patreon . Shannon and John cruise inexpensively and like to take their time. John was a professional videographer for TV, and he gives some tips on making great video on...
Sep 28, 2016•48 min•Season 1Ep. 27
John Glennie's boat was adrift for 119 days upside-down before he and three other men landed on Great Barrier Island in New Zealand. This is the record for the most days adrift in a cold climate and is likely the record for the most days adrift by a sailing yacht crew. His boat the Rose-Noelle capsized in violent storm on the way to Fiji from the South Island of New Zealand. In this podcast, we hear the first 30 minutes of that over 2.5 hour conversation about the ordeal. It contains important l...
Aug 28, 2016•50 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Our guest Tyler Rowland of the More Hands on Deck YouTube channel talks about his season 3 trying to sail from Louisiana to Panama with Vagabond Phil. The trip did not go as well as he hoped. He also talks about his new gig at Antlos in Venice, Italy. Antlos is a new “ArirBNB for boats.” In the bonus episodes for patrons, hear about his plans to return to his sailboat in La Paz, Mexico and eventually sail the South Pacific. I talk about getting the boat for dry storage in Ecuador and the launch ...
Aug 09, 2016•52 min
This week I talk about Janna, Sophie, Daly (dog), and my long and winding offshore trip from Panama City to Salinas, Ecuador. We also talk to the Aubrey and Robb Hamic from the Sailing Miss Lone Star YouTube channel and blog about sailing with two young kids and a big dog. They tell about their big expensive gas guzzling trip from Texas to the Florida keys by way of the Mississippi River and the Slow Boat's home port of New Orleans to the the Florida Keys. After paying $6,000 in gas, they decide...
Jul 26, 2016•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 24
Annie Dike author of Keys to the Kingdom: A rising young lawyer who found the key by losing the lock , Salt of a Sailor: The true origins of a durable, but not-so-dainty sailor , and None Such Like It: An enlightening voyage through the nine stages of boat-buying grief visited the Slow Boat and told us about how much a Blogger , YouTube sensation, and bestselling author really makes. (It's less than you think.) She talks about cruising in her boyfreind's boat in Florida and other crewing trips s...
Jul 06, 2016•58 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Trey Benefield of Blue Moon Adventures talks about how he wanted to finance his big cruise by buying a boat in the Eastern Caribbean and selling it in Australia for a profit. He talks about the first part of his trip in this episode from buying the boat in St. Martin and his transit of the Panama Canal. His college student daughter was his crew member on this trip and they survived 30 foot waves and gale conditions on their way. Trey and his daugher pose in Opinuhoo Bay in Moorea. You can get $2...
Jun 29, 2016•50 min•Season 1Ep. 22
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 financially benefit from boater's employment of agents to facilitate the check in process in Colon, Panama. ...
Jun 22, 2016•37 min•Season 1Ep. 21
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 SeaWolf Sailing and the YouTube channel of the same name. The SV Sea Wolf crew sailed with dog Bear to ...
Jun 18, 2016•51 min•Season 1Ep. 20
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 winner will be alone on the ocean for 8 months or more in the update of the race that made Robin Knox Johnsto...
Jun 08, 2016•56 min•Season 1Ep. 19
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 his two previous boats before he bought his current boat. This episode is sponsored by Jenifer Clark’s ...
Jun 01, 2016•47 min•Season 1Ep. 18
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 has been coming to Cuba since 1996 on her parents' schooner. This episode is sponsored by Jenifer Clark’...
May 25, 2016•41 min•Season 1Ep. 17
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, Florida to Cabo San Antonio Cuba and how we met up with episode 4 guest Addison Chan. Stevie and I are no...
May 18, 2016•51 min•Season 16Ep. 1
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 Gulfstream for their Panama trip thus far. Call 410-286-5270 or e-mail gulfstream@comcast.net so you can find out ho...
May 11, 2016•36 min•Season 1Ep. 15
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 with an in depth look at Nike’s Mexico cruise if you pledge as little as $1 to the Slow Boat Sailing Po...
May 04, 2016•47 min•Season 1Ep. 14
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 sell it in South Carolina . If you want a boat that is Bahamas tested, there is one waiting for you in Sout...
Apr 27, 2016•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 13
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 first video with Daly (poodle), Sophie (5), Janna, an me on YouTube ! Hopefully, there will be more to c...
Apr 20, 2016•52 min•Season 1Ep. 12
