This week OFFWATCH chats to Peter Burling and Blair Tuke. Their CV is impressive: Olympic gold medal winners in the 49er, America’s Cup winners in 2017 with Emirates Team New Zealand, and of course they both sailed in the last edition of The Ocean Race – Peter on Team Brunel, and Blair aboard MAPFRE.
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How would you deal with a sudden crash in the middle of the ocean in the pitch black of night? And how does it feel to have a camera pushed in your face in the middle of such a crisis? Niall Myant-Best from The Ocean Race’s Offwatch series puts all these questions, and more to Chris Nicholson.
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This month double Olympic gold medalist Shirley Robertson goes back to her sailing roots as she talks about success and failure with six very different multiple Olympic medallists. The interviews span fifty-two years of Olympic competition, feature a total of twelve medals, seven gold, and include some of the biggest names in Olympic Sailing.
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World-renowned ocean racer and two-time competitor in The Ocean Race, Dee Caffari chatted to…
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Podcast With A Pro | Micro-plastics In The Frozen Ocean
by Ingrid HaleJust back from an expedition to Antarctica, Alice Forrest shares her experience of the frozen ocean and takes us through the complex conversation of how our impact contribute to micro-plastic pollution.
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Double Olympic gold medalist Shirley Robertson sits down for a two-part podcast chat with Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, the first man ever to sail solo non-stop around the planet. Sir Robin completed his groundbreaking voyage in April 1969, after an astonishing 312 days alone at sea having sailed his thirty two foot ketch ‘Suhaili’ thirty thousand miles around the planet. He has gone on to achieve many accolades during his sailing career, and is still very involved in offshore racing having started the Clipper Round the World Race.
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Podcast with the Pro: Plastic free on your own terms
by Ingrid HaleWSL’s Pure |One Ocean podcast team shared an inspiring conversation with the Founder of Plastic Free July and author Rebecca Prince-Ruiz.
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Podcast with the Pro: A Conversation with Libby Greenhalgh
by Ingrid HaleIn this episode from The Oceans Race’s Off Watch, Libby takes us inside the campaign with Team SCA in 2014-15 and remembers John Fisher, her crewmate aboard Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag who was tragically lost overboard during the last edition. Libby also opens up about the responsibilities of being a navigator, and she gives strong advice to the organisers of The Ocean Race about equality rules for the next race.
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In this podcast from Behind the life with Adam Lambert Brett Archibald recalls his incredible story of survival, near-death experiences, mental endurance and finally being rescued.
It started with an email, a tantalising invitation to surf the world’s best waves in a magnificent tropical paradise. Brett couldn’t resist.
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World Title contender Filipe Toledo joins Dave Prodan on The Lineup to talk about breaking onto the world stage, how having a family has changed his motivations, his need for speed, and how the last generation of Brazilian surfers set today’s athletes up for success.
