Niels Nielson, Saare Yachts, also Bahamas Fee Increases, Unrest in Panama
Offshore Sailing and Cruising with Paul Trammell
Release Date: 06/23/2025
Willem Nieland, Globemaster Yachts, Designing Aluminum Sailboats
Offshore Sailing and Cruising with Paul Trammell
Willem Nieland has been designing yachts for 35 years. He designs Globemaster yachts, as well as custom aluminum expedition sailboats, motor yachts, and residential yachts. His designs are know for efficent and ergonomic use of space, comfort, and excellent offshore sailing characteristics. We talk about design elements he likes in a boat, his boat, sailing around The Netherlands, designing boats, the Northwest Passage, the expedition boat Necton, twin saildrives, his Globemaster yachts, using a lifting keel, the Globemaster 45 and some of its features, advantages and disadvantages of dual...
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Onboard Galiana with Tapio and Crew
Offshore Sailing and Cruising with Paul Trammell
Tapio Lehtinen and his crew were sailing in the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers from the Canary Islands to St. Lucia when we talked. The interview was conducted in the cockpit of Galiana, a 1972 Swan 55 yawl, while underway. I spoke with each of the crew, most of whom were paying customers. Tapio is taking paying crew on ocean training passages and various offshore races this year, as well as the 2027 Ocean Globe Race. Ifyou are interested in sailing with Tapio on Galiana, email me at and I will put you in touch with Tapio, as well as his schedule and prices. Photos of Galiana and crew are on the...
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Viivi Moisio, Sailing in the Ocean Globe Race on Galiana
Offshore Sailing and Cruising with Paul Trammell
Viivi was part of Tapio Lehtinen's crew onboard Galiana for the 2023 Ocean Globe Race. This race was the subject of Tapio's book "Pole Star and Albatross." Viivi is now building a Class Globe 5.80 to sail in the 2026 Mini Globe Transat. We talk about learning to sail, training for the Ocean Globe Race (OGR), the sinking of Asteria, favorite moments in the OGR, rounding Cape Horn, fear, difficult moments, sail repair, maintaining a positive spirit on Galiana, diving to fix the hydrogenerator offshore, steering across the finish line of the OGR, the unexpected, the Southern Ocean, Galiana,...
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Andrew Evans, Singlehanded Sailing Two Points West of Sanity
Offshore Sailing and Cruising with Paul Trammell
Andrew Evans is best known for his book "Singlehanded Sailing, Thoughts Tips Techniques and Tactics." His most recent book is "Singlehanded Sailing, Two Points West of Sanity." The book is mostly about his ill-fated passage attempting to sail from Victoria, Canada, to the start of the Transpac in San Francisco. During the journey, he experienced falling overboard, taking on water, total loss of his electrical system, great hardship, exhaustion, and a week of hallucinations. In this episode, Andrew tells the story of this journey, starting in Victoria, Canada and finishing with his rescue in...
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Introducing the Worldstar with RWYC Vice Commodore Chris Arscott
Offshore Sailing and Cruising with Paul Trammell
The Royal Western Yacht Club was founded in 1827 to encourage yacht racing. Chris Arscott is the Vice Commodore and organizes the OSTAR and the Round Britain & Ireland Race, and now the Worldstar, a new nonstop round-the-world race for 35'-60' monohulls without specific requirements and raced singlehanded or doublehanded,. We talk about the Worldstar, Starlink, communication, sponsorship, making the race affordable, how the Worldstar is different from other circumnavigation races, history of the OSTAR (1960) and Doublhand RBI (1966), support during the race, livestreaming during the...
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Guido Cantini, 2026 Golden Globe Race Entrant
Offshore Sailing and Cruising with Paul Trammell
Guido Cantini is an Italian entrant in the 2026 Golden Globe Race. His boat is a Vancouver 34, and he has been preparing for the race for six years. We talk about sailing arounf the Tuscan Archipelago, the differences between being a mariner and a racer, the Golden Globe Race, his boat and how he chose it, work he has done to the boat, cruising in Panama, the effects of moving weight inside the boat, heaters, GGR rules, reefing, sailing in the "Nostar," breaking a Hydrovane, electronic autopilots, heavy weather strategies, the GGR and what he is looking forward to, dealing with fear, the...
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Cruising the Greek Islands, Sailing with a Baby, Eddie and Kelli of The Vanabond Tales
Offshore Sailing and Cruising with Paul Trammell
Eddie and Kelli were in Corfu, Greece, when I spoke to them. They were sailing a 1986 Beneteau First 29, had just sold it, and were buying a Moody 422. We talk about sailing with a new baby, kids on boats, their Beneteau First 29 and how they chose it, buying a boat remotely, in-mast furling, the Moody 422, sailing in Croatia, buying a boat in Croatia, registering a boat in Poland, staying in the EU - leaving and returning to renew visas, digital nomad visas, Montenegro, sea mines and the danger of anchoring, Tunisia, cruising Greece, ancient ruins, the food, making decisions as a...
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Emergency Steering in the South Pacific, Red Seas 2
Offshore Sailing and Cruising with Paul Trammell
Iain and Brioni are two Scottish sailors casually circumnavigating on a Leopard 47 Catamaran. As we spoke, they were in the South Pacific. We talk about dealing with a broken steering cable, using an emergency tiller, repairing the steel cable with dyneema, their route across the South Pacific, hurricanes, staying warm, whales, cameras and drones and the logistics of making a YouTube channel, INav4U, how to know when to reef a catamaran, watch and sleep schedules, sailing to an uncharted atoll, fish and their level of intelligence, sharks, making decisions as a couple without conflict,...
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Sailing the Solomon Islands, Brett and Tess from The Seafaring Project
Offshore Sailing and Cruising with Paul Trammell
Brett and Tess were in the Solomon Islands when I spoke to them. They sail a Corbin 39, surf, spearfish, explore, and interact with the local cultures. We talk all about the Solomon Islands, their boat, colliding with a floating tree and dealing with a damaged skeg and a pernicious leak, hauling out and and fixing the skeg, living on a boat vs living in a house, crocodiles, crocodile safety, ciguatera, dealing with passports and visas, Papua New Guinea, surfing, the people and the culture of the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea, sharks, spearfishing, stern-tying to shore, anchoring in deep...
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Jazz Turner, Project Fear, Circumnavigating Britain and Ireland
Offshore Sailing and Cruising with Paul Trammell
Jaz races in the Hanse 303 and RS Venture Connect SCS classes, and sails an Albin Vega 27, in which she recently became the first wheelchair user to sail solo and unassisted around Great Britain and Ireland, and doing so confronted and overcame great difficulties. She lives with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, which means her connective tissue does not function properly, and this also effects her internal organs, and her condition is terminal. Regardless, Jaz is now preparing to compete in the 2026 Worldstar, in which she will attempt to sail solo nonstop unassisted around the world. We...
info_outlineSaare Yachts is a German company that builds quality, semi-custom yachts which are made in Estonia in the yard that formerly built Finngulf Yachts.
In the intro, I discuss the new 5X-more expensive Bahamas cruising permits and new fees, as well as the strikes in Bocas del Toro, Panama.
Niels and I talk about sailing in the Baltic Sea, sailing angles, history of the boatyard, building the hulls, vacuum infusion, vinyl-ester resin, foam, bulkheads, lead keels, keel bolts, traditional hull design, heeling, single rudders, engine access, electrical systems, alternators, induction stoves, having 2 alternators, German boom sheeting, a unique liferaft storage and launching system, and more.
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