Season 3-Ep1-"Below Deck" star Captain Glenn Shepard! SEASON 3 PREMIERE!!
Whitecap: The Canadian Sailing Podcast
Release Date: 05/22/2024
Season 3-Ep6 Canadian Sailing TOP 10 stories of the year with Canadian Boating magazine's John Morris!!
Whitecap: The Canadian Sailing Podcast
Today we’re counting down the top 10 Canadian sailing stories of 2024 with John Morris, online editor of Canadian Boating and curator of Sailing In Canada (). Featuring: AC40’s, Sail GP, Olympics, Canadian Sailing hall of fame Class of 2024, a special section on grassroots races you’ve never heard of, and of course the winner of the 3rd annual Whitecap Cup for greatness in alternative sailing programs (GRASP). #1 Halifax pulls off an amazing Sail GP event #2 Canadian Sailors at the Paris Games #3 Team Concord Pacific Youth and Women’s America’s Cup...
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Season 3-Ep7 Flight Controller BILLY GOODERHAM of Northstar Sail GP's new season, new ownership and new skipper
Whitecap: The Canadian Sailing Podcast
Today we're talking to Northstar Sail GP's flight Controller Billy Gooderham! After season 4, things were looking a little grim for the future of Canada's Sail GP team. They had lost a 2025 regatta in Canada, there were questions about ownership, and there had been radio silence from the social media sites. On November 6th that all changed when the team came roaring back with a new owner (Dr. Greg Bailey of biotech company Juvenescence), new skipper (2 time olympic gold medalist Giles Scott!) and a confirmation of an event in Canada in 2026 (gotta be Halifax, right?). ...
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Season 3-Ep6 Women's and Youth AMERICA'S CUP! With Isabella Bertold, Andrew Wood and Georgia Lewin LaFrance
Whitecap: The Canadian Sailing Podcast
Canada’s first foray in the Americas cup since 1987! Concord Pacific, out of the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club assembled entries into the youth and (FIRST EVER) women's America's Cup that took place in Barcelona. I spoke to return guest Isabella Bertold, skipper of the women's team, as well as Andrew Wood and Georgia Lewin LaFrance from the youth team!
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Season 3-Ep5 SailGP Canada Strategist ANNIE HAEGER!! 2016 Olympian and 2015 US Yachtswoman of the Year
Whitecap: The Canadian Sailing Podcast
Annie Haeger is winner of US sailing’s 2015 Yachtswoman of the year, a youth worlds silver medalist in, US women’s college sailor of the year, and she placed 7th at the Olympics in the 470 in Rio, she is currently the chief strategist and Co pilot for Sail GP CANADA. After a bitter end to her olympic dream, and two years not sailing at all, she was able rediscove the fun in sailing through foiling, and ultimately back to the high performance world! This was a great conversation including tips on seeing wind lines for lake sailing perspectives on US college sailing and an in depth...
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Season 3-Ep4 Drew Mitchell! North Sails Sailmaker, Pro Sailor and CHESTER RACE WEEK Expert!!
Whitecap: The Canadian Sailing Podcast
Drew and I taked sailmaking, distance sailing, the bluenose one design and of course all thinggs CHESTER RACE WEEK! Drew grew up sailing at the Lunenburg Yacht Club in Nova Scotia. He has raced on and coached high performance one design sailboats for over 20 years. He managed the North Sails Vancouver loft for over a decade and has recently moved back to Nova Scotia picking up a dream job of buying North Sails Atlantic! Drew races in the many of the biggest high performance keelboat fleets, highlights include the Farr 30 North Americans and Melges 24 PNW championship.. In distance...
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Season 3-Ep3 Nine Time Olympic Coach Ken Dool!!
Whitecap: The Canadian Sailing Podcast
Ken is a Canadian coaching legend and since 1990 has been the High Performance Director, Chief Training Officer and Head Coach of the national sailing team. Paris 2024 is the 9th Olympics he’s coached in as well as 4 Paralympic games, 6 Pan Ams and hundreds of World Championships. We spoke about our Canadian olympic hopefuls, Ken's philosophies and impressions of our all time great athletes, and the size of the mosquitos in Gimli, Manitoba!
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Season 3-Ep2-SailCanada CEO Ryan Kelly!
Whitecap: The Canadian Sailing Podcast
Ryan Kelly is the CEO of Sail Canada. Ryan is a lifelong sailor, having worked in support of the sea cadets program, president of Sail Newfoundland and Labrador and as a Sail Canada learning facilitator. He's been a dinghy coach, skiff sailor and is presently developing his chops as an offshore racer. Our conversation was wide ranging, covering the development off Canadian Olympic hopefuls, improving the growth of the sport from coast to coast to coast, and of course the glories of sailing in Newfoundland's Conception Bay!
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Season 3-Ep1-"Below Deck" star Captain Glenn Shepard! SEASON 3 PREMIERE!!
Whitecap: The Canadian Sailing Podcast
!!SEASON 3 PREMIERE!! Captain Glenn from BELOW DECK:SAILING YACHT!! With over 250k followers on IG Captain Glenn Shepard, a Montrealer, is without question the most famous Canadian sailor on earth. He is the star of the wildly popular and highly entertaining Bravo reality series Below Deck Sailing Yacht. Captain Glenn gets into detail about the famous scene of running the transom 177 ft super yacht onto a cement dock in Croatia, he confirmed that he would be in the cast of an upcoming season 5 and he expressed how closely he follows SailGP Canada...
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Transatlantic racer Gwenn Duval from Femina Ocean Challenge!
Whitecap: The Canadian Sailing Podcast
With me today is Gwenn Duval, member of Femina Ocean Challenge team who will be racing in the famed transatlantic Quebec a St Malo race in June 2024 Gwenn is a masters student in Oceanography and has been sailing since she can remember. She spent two years teaching sailing in the Mediterranean and Brittany, has a Yachtmaster Offshore certificate in England, did a transatlantic crossing from West to East in the middle of COVID, and is now one of 4 crew preparing for the Quebec a St Malo race in their class 40 Equinoxe This episode is brought to you by North Sails.
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Season 2-EP11 Palma Preview with Rob Hemming, Canadian SSL skipper and Former member of National Team
Whitecap: The Canadian Sailing Podcast
Today we're previewing. The princess Sophia, Regatta, and Palmer Spain with me is Rob Hemming Rob is a former member of the national team competing in the Finn class from 2012 until 2017 where he rose to a top ranking of 30th in the world. He was also a coach at the 2020 olympics and most recently was the helmsman for Canada's entry into the star Sailor's league gold cup world championships in Spain. Outside of competing, Rob is also on the Sail Canada Board of Directors as an athlete Director
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