The Yacht Racing Podcast: Recent Episodes
Justin Chisholm
A podcast about the international yacht racing scene featuring exclusive interviews with the sport's top sailors and influencers. Hosted by British sailing journalist Justin Chisholm – editor of the Yacht Racing Life website.
Australian-born Luke Parkinson is a high-performance sailor who has carved out an enviable career for himself in the ocean racing world – having won The Ocean Race 2014-15 with Ian Walker's Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing – and as an expert protagonist of the art of foiling in both SailGP and the America's Cup – with Ben Ainslie's Emirates Team GBR and INEOS Britannia, respectively.
During a wide-ranging conversation Luke talks about his early days as a young sailor, his aspirations of following in the footsteps of his Olympic gold medal winning sister Tessa, his ongoing passion for ocean racing, his first experience in of racing around the world, as well as his thoughts on the America's Cup and SailGP.
Tom Morris is a talented British dinghy sailor, who aside from his sailing achievements – that include a national championship victory in the RS800 twin trapeze skiff class and winning the UK’s champion of champions Endeavour Trophy last year – is also host of the highly popular YouTube channel Mozzy Sails, where he and some of his sailing friends provide some fascinating and much needed analysis of the technical side of the 37th America’s Cup. So far, Morris' channel has racked up close to four million views and has a subscriber base of just short of 22 thousand and counting.
You can become a subscriber here: https://www.youtube.com/@MozzySails/
British sailing writer and America's Cup aficionado Magnus Wheatley has been obsessed with yacht racing's oldest and most prestigious competition since he was in his mid-teens.
British writer and America’s Cup aficionado Magnus Wheatley has been obsessed with yachting’s oldest and most prestigious competition since the age of 16.
Now appropriately based in Cowes on the Isle of Wight, Magnus has covered numerous America’s Cup cycles over the years as an independent journalist and for the 37th edition – which is scheduled to take place in Barcelona, Spain in 2024 – he has been retained by the event organisers as lead writer for the competition's official website americascup.com.
Justin Chisholm catches up with fellow British sailing journalist Andy Rice, who as well as being a regular contributor to all the major sailing publications also hosts the Sailjuice Podcast as well as running the Road to Gold 12 step coaching programme that helps sailors of all abilities improve their racing performance.
Justin Chisholm is joined by friend and colleague David Fuller – host of the Yacht Business podcast which examines new innovative technologies, trends and business models that are having an impact on the global marine industry.
On this crossover episode – which will be jointly published on The Yacht Business Podcast, (available on all major podcasting platforms) – the pair discuss how various technologies are having an effect on the professional yacht racing world.
Justin Chisholm’s guest this time is British Olympic medallist and SailGP competitor Hannah Mills.
Hannah won silver in the women’s 470 class at the London 2012 Olympics and followed that victory up with back to back gold medals at the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 making her the most successful female Olympic sailor of all time.
She called time on her Olympic campaigning after the last Games, but was snapped up by Sir Ben Ainslie’s Great Britain SailGP Team where she has raced in the strategist role on the British F50 foiling catamaran, as well as spearheading the team’s initiatives around the SailGP Women’s Pathway Programme and indulging her passion for sustainability with the the team’s Protect Our Future climate education platform recently launched with its charity partner, 1851 Trust.
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This is a short promo trailer for the latest episode of The Yacht Racing Podcast featuring an interview with the young Dutch offshore sailor Rosalin Kuiper who was recently announced as a member of Boris Herrmann’s Team Malizia IMOCA 60 crew for the upcoming edition of The Ocean Race which sets off around the world in January 2023.
Whilst her name might not be immediately familiar to everyone Rosie has a fantastic back story. While lots of people dream of becoming a professional sailor and racing around the world Rosie came up with a plan and then went out on her own into the world and made it happen.
Here are a few excerpts from our hour long interview to whet your appetite and if you want to hear the full episode you can subscribe on Apple Podcasts or on Spotify.
This is a short promo trailer for the latest episode of The Yacht Racing Podcast which features an interview with British serial America’s Cup competitor Freddie Carr.
Our wide ranging conversation spanned Freddie’s illustrious career in the America’s Cup, his thoughts on SailGP, plus a discussion on the relative merits of cycling versus grinding in the next AC – and much more besides.
The following snippets from our chat will give you a feel for what we discussed – and if you want to listen to the full episode you can find it on Apple Podcasts and on Spotify.
This is a short promo trailer for the latest episode of The Yacht Racing Podcast which features an interview with US Olympic silver medalist and renowned performance coach Morgan Reeser.
After winning a silver medal in the 470 class at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona sailing with the legendary Kevin Burnham, Reeser has since coached two 470 crews to Olympic medal success and established himself as a sought after performance coach across a range of classes from small one-design keelboats to TP52s
Always with plenty of great stories from his long career in yachting Reeser is always an interesting interview.
This promo episode includes a selection of excerpts from the main episode to whet your appetite. If you would like to listen to the interview in full then search for The Yacht Racing Podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
This is a short promo trailer episode for the latest episode of The Yacht Racing Podcast featuring an exclusive interview with Irish around-the-world yachtsman and ocean health advocate Damian Foxall.
When it comes to ocean racing achievements Foxall sets the bar pretty high with six editions of the The Ocean Race under his belt, as well as wins in the double handed Barcelona Race and record setting non-stop runs aboard monster sized maxi catamarans like Steve Fosset’s PlayStation and Cheyenne.
Over the last few years, as the Sustainability Programme Manager for the 11th Hour Racing Team, he has been instrumental in demonstrating how performance, sustainability, and business can merge into a successful and replicable model for the marine industry and beyond.
This trailer features a few snippets from the interview to whet you appetite. To listen to the full episode you can subscribe to The Yacht Racing Podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
A promo trailer for our recent episode featuring an interview with Australian sailor Tom Slingsby.
Justin Chisholm sat down with Slingsby in San Francisco, just days ahead of him winning the million dollar grand finale of the second season of SailGP.
The pair talked about the trials and tribulations of Slingsby’s Olympic career, joining Oracle Team USA, his passion for goal setting, the future of SailGP, and the tantalising prospect of him making a return to the America’s Cup for the 37th edition.
To listen to the full episode subscribe to The Yacht Racing Podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
A promo trailer for our latest episode in which Justin Chisholm speaks to British America’s Cup sailor and Olympic gold medalist rower, Matt Gotrel, who has just re-signed as a member of the powerhouse grinding team for the British Challenger of Record at AC37 – Ben Ainslie’s Ineos Britannia.
Gotrel comes from a sailing family and began his career crewing in dinghies on lakes in the south of England. He quickly progressed through the 29er class and into the 49er to join the British Olympic Sailing Team before putting his sailing on hold to go to university
That’s where he was lured into the world of competitive rowing – a sport in which he worked his way up to Olympic selection and won the gold in the Men’s 8 at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
But Gotrel wasn’t done with sailing yet and joined Ineos Britannia for the British syndicate’s 36th America’s Cup campaign. Now he is back for another try at winning sailing’s oldest and most prestigious trophy.
This is a short promo trailer for the latest episode of The Yacht Racing Podcast – in which Justin Chisholm chats with Cowes Week regatta director Laurence Mead.
Laurence is an accomplished sailor in his own right and took over Cowes Week back in 2018. If you have ever wondered what it takes to organise an annual week of racing for around 600 boats and 5000 sailors then this is the episode for you.
To listen to the episode in full, search for The Yacht Racing Podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
A quick promo for our latest episode featuring an interview with New Zealand high performance foiling supremo – Phil Robertson.
Best known in his role as skipper on the international SailGP high-performance foiling catamaran circuit, Robertson has also won the World Match Racing Tour world championship title on two occasions.
Robertson is always entertaining to chat with – as you will in the series of snippets from our interview featured in this promo.
To listen to the episode in full, search for The Yacht Racing Podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
A promo trailer for the recently released episode of The Yacht Racing Podcast featuring an interview with British Vendée Globe competitor Pip Hare.
Listen to the full episode on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
A message from Justin Chisholm – the host of The Yacht Racing Podcast…
At the start of this new year in 2022 I wanted to take this chance to re-introduce you all to The Yacht Racing Podcast.
First of all, though, a bit about my background and why I started The Yacht Racing Podcast.
My love of sailing began when I started sailing dinghies on a grimy inland lake in the north west UK at the age of nine. I was instantly hooked and I have maintained a burning passion for the sport of yacht racing ever since.
Over the last 20 years I have been fortunate enough to have worked as a freelance sailing journalist covering the premiere regattas in the professional sailing world.
During that time I have worked on multiple editions of the Volvo Ocean Race, the America’s Cup, the Vendee Globe, as well as reporting from the regatta venues at several Olympic Games – and many other Grand Prix sailing events across the globe.
Over the years I have had the privilege of getting to know our sports top names and to sit down one to one with them to find out their back stories and to try to discover what sets these sailing greats aside from the competition.
I wanted to share those stories with a wider audience of sailing fans and that’s how The Yacht Racing Podcast was born.
Over the last few years I have welcomed to the podcast the likes of Thomas Coville, Ian Walker, Terry Hutchinson, Ben Ainslie, Ed Baird, Boris Herrmann, Bouwe Bekking, Ken Read, Glen Ashby, Paul Goodison, Russell Coutts, Justin Slattery, Chris Nicholson, Dee Caffari, Ray Davies, Charlie Dalit, Neal McDonald, Paul Larsen, Alex Thomson.
All of those names plus many more besides and there are plenty of other great interviews scheduled each month going forward.
So if in depth yacht racing interviews are your thing - then the Yacht Racing Podcast is available via paid subscription exclusively on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
I hope you will take the time to check The Yacht Racing Podcast out and I look forward to welcoming you to our worldwide subscriber community.
Sail Fast Everyone!
Justin