Jazz Turner, Project Fear, Circumnavigating Britain and Ireland
Offshore Sailing and Cruising with Paul Trammell
Release Date: 10/20/2025
Ertan Beskardes, GGR and MGR Competitor
Offshore Sailing and Cruising with Paul Trammell
Ertan Beskardes is a lifelong sailor entered in the 2026 Golden Gobe Race. He recently completed the Mini Globe Race, in which he circumnavigated in a 19' Class Globe 5.80 sailboat. He started both the 2018 and 2022 Golden Globe Races, but retired in each. His GGR boat is a Rustler 36, formerly Matmut, Jean Luc Van Den Heede's winning boat form the 2018 GGR. He also sails a Jenneau Sun Odyssey 33. We talk about the difficulty of being suddenly disconnected from all communication with family in the Golden Globe Race, learing through experience, an electrical fire, the Mini Globe...
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A Sea Vagabond's World
Offshore Sailing and Cruising with Paul Trammell
In this episode, I talk about Tapio Lehtinen's recent Bahamas trip and lessons we can take from it, using Google Maps to find coordinates of anchorages or dive spots and transfering them to Navionics, I read select passages from Bernard Moitessier's "A Sea Vagabond's World" and discuss them, including why it is advantageous to learn to sail in a dinghy, learning to sail offshore, anchoring, chain vs rope, snubbers, secondary anchors, things to do before heading out to sea, getting to know your boat, making landfall, sailing without a schedule, weighing anchor, using clouds to forecast weather,...
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Will Sofrin, USCGC Eagle: The Legacy of America’s Tall Ship
Offshore Sailing and Cruising with Paul Trammell
Will Sofrin is a lifelong sailor and the author of the book "USCGC Eagle: The Legacy of America’s Tall Ship." The book tells the story of a German naval training ship seized at the end of World War II and transformed into the U.S. Coast Guard’s flagship, training generations of officers. Rather than a conventional history, it is told through firsthand accounts from those who sailed her, with each chapter capturing a different decade of the ship’s life, from her dramatic 1946 delivery to America, to Cold War voyages behind the Iron Curtain, to surviving a near-loss in a hurricane. He is...
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Matt Steverson, The Duracell Project, Converting an Offshore Racer to a Fast Family Cruiser
Offshore Sailing and Cruising with Paul Trammell
Matt Steverson has been rebuilding an offshore racing sailboat and converting her into a fast family cruising liveaboard, and doing a fantastic job of it, which he and his wife Janneke document on their . Duracell, the boat, was built and sailed by legendary American sailor, Mike Plant, who beat the American record for solo circumnavigation in the first Vendee Globe in 1989. We talk about wiring, organization, Matt's electrical-system philosophy, batteries, the generator, the electric motor, appliances, having a child and adding him to the sailing plans, making a YouTube channel,...
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Sail Trim with Carl Damm
Offshore Sailing and Cruising with Paul Trammell
Carl Damm is the owner or Damsel Marine, a yacht management, maitenance, and consulting company. He is also a sailing instructor with ASA and Nautic Ed. We talk about how to properly install and bed deck hardware, filling the bolt holes with epoxy, backing plates, sail trim, setting halyard tension, how to use a cunningham, setting proper leech tension, reading tell tales, moving jib cars, adjustable jib cars vs pin-stop vs twings with low-friction rings, why a sailor should carry a knife, mast bend, using the traveler, vang, and mainsheet, barber hauls, the proper way to set a whisker...
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Sharks! Cristina Zenato, Professional Shark Diver
Offshore Sailing and Cruising with Paul Trammell
Cristina Zenato is a shark ecologist and behaviorist who grew up between the savannah and the rainforest of the Congo, where she developed a passion for the outdoors and an understanding and appreciation for the wilderness and our relationship to the environments around us. Today, she lives in The Bahamas and offers scuba-diving courses and shark dives. She is a PADI Course Director, NSS-CDS Advanced Cave diving instructor, TDI Technical Instructor, Rebreather instructor, educator, speaker, writer, and photographer. Cristina is a proud member of the Women Divers Hall of Fame, The Explorers...
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Colm Walker
Offshore Sailing and Cruising with Paul Trammell
Colm Walker is entered in the 2026 Golden Globe Race. He was in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico when we talked, on the way from San Diego to France via the Panama Canal. He is a dual citizen of the United States and Ireland, an Airborne Ranger and combat veteran of the 82nd Airborne Division, and a lifelong waterman. His boat, Mo Chuisle (“My Pulse” in Irish), is a Tayana 37 cutter. He sails in support of veteran mental health, raising awareness for those still fighting unseen battles long after the guns have gone quiet. For Colm, the Golden Globe Race is not an escape from life, but a...
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Kevin Wasbauer, Shearwater Sailing
Offshore Sailing and Cruising with Paul Trammell
Kevin Wasbauer runs Shearwater Sailing out of Monterey Bay, California. He sails a Farr 53, sometimes with clients, sometimes solo. He is currently offereing berths on a sail from Monterey Bay to Hawaii, and from Hawaii back to Monterey Bay. We talk about sailing in Monterey Bay, whales, marine protected zones, gaining experience before buying a boat, his boat Atalanta - a Farr 53, adjusting the backstay tension and how this affects performance, buying a boat through a charter sale, rebuilding the rudder, the autopilot and other electronics, weather-helm vs asymetry in the rudder,...
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Dan Turner, Circumnavigating in a 19' Boat
Offshore Sailing and Cruising with Paul Trammell
Dan Turner recently took second place in the Mini Globe Race, in which he circumnavigated in a home-built Globe 6.50. We talk about completing a circumnavigation, Antigua, stopping in 17 different countries, Cape Town to St. Helena, St. Helena to Recife, Recife to Antigua, squalls, the strength and construction of the boat, collisions, the state of the boat after the race, doubters, how much of the race was fun, what it feels like to be out at sea in a tiny boat, how sailing changes us, fear, the sky at night, hand steering, hallucinations, future dreams, favorite boats, and more. Photos...
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Christian Lobel, Circumnavigating Newfoundland
Offshore Sailing and Cruising with Paul Trammell
Christian Lobel is an RYA Yachtmaster Instructor and captain of Saga, a Swan 47 on which he sails offshore, often with paying crew. I met Chris in Newfoundland in a fjord on the south coast in 2022. Last year, he returned circumnavigated Newfoundland. We talk about sailing to Cuba, Tierra del Fuego, Port Antonio Jamaica, Newfoundland, Greenland, cruising Ireland, the Azores, sailing upwind, using the staysail, sail combinations, reefing, a unique way of setting up running backstays, hand steering and why it is an important skill, using the Hydrovane, watch schedule, cooking onboard,...
info_outlineJaz 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 talk about her introduction to sailing on a cold wet day in the Cornish Harbor, her obsession with the ocean, growing up with a difficult home situation, being homeless as a child and living on the street, then sleeping in the boats at the sailing club, dealing with fear, living on a shorter time line, finding a new family, comparing the Albin Vega to performance boats, heaving-to, sleeping while solo, hallucinations, breakages, preventers, Project Fear, how the circumnavigation of Britain and Ireland changed her, the extents of her mobility, foul-weather gear, beautiful moments, wildlife, running aground 50 nm from the finish and kedging off, the WorldStar 2026, and more.
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