Broad Reach Radio - The Yachting New Zealand Podcast
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Broad Reach Radio - The Yachting New Zealand Podcast
Your weekly dose of interviews with people in the New Zealand sailing community from top sailors of today and yesteryear to those working in the sailing and boating industries.
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Ep 52 - Glenn Ashby and the land speed record
The number 202.9 might not mean a lot to most but is a figure Glenn Ashby has become obsessed about. The two-time America’s Cup winner is now leading...
Ep 51 - Simon Gundry and Ceramco New Zealand
New Zealand has a proud tradition in the round the world race and a lot of that started with Ceramco New Zealand in the early 1980s – the first New Ze...
Ep 50 - Karl Budge
Karl Budge doesn’t purport to be much of a sailor, but he is one of this country’s leading event organisers having previously turned the ASB Classic i...
Ep 49 - Mike Sanderson
Mike Sanderson is one of the most successful sailors of his generation. He’s a former World Sailor of the Year, two-time winner of the round the world...
Ep 48 - Sharon Ferris-Choat
There’s not a lot Sharon Ferris-Choat hasn’t done in sailing. She’s a two-time Olympian, first woman to be part of a team to win a round the world rac...
Ep 47 - Jo Aleh
Jo Aleh always maintained she hadn’t retired when she stepped away from top-level sailing after the 2016 Rio Olympics but it was still a surprise in s...
Ep 46 - Peter Burling and Blair Tuke (49er sailing)
Peter Burling and Blair Tuke are never far from the action, whether it’s the America’s Cup, SailGP or in their environmental work, but the spotlight f...
Ep 45 - Steve Ashley and the 1979 Fastnet Race
Steve Ashley was an 18-year-old sailmaker living in England when he was asked to crew on a 34-foot yacht for the 1979 Fastnet Race. Little did he know...
p 44 - Dan Bernasconi
The America’s Cup has long been at the cutting edge of yacht racing and we’ve seen incredible development over the last decade or so and a lot of that...
Ep 43 - Andy Ventura
Andy Ventura sailed solo from New Zealand to the UK via the Southern Ocean so he could get to his mother’s 80th birthday party in the middle of a glob...
Ep 42 - Erica Dawson
It’s fair to say Erica Dawson has had a big year in 2021 for a number of different reasons. She broke her leg in a training accident only five weeks b...
Ep 41 - Tom Saunders
A couple of weeks ago, Tom Saunders became just the second New Zealander to win the Laser world title in nearly 50 years of trying. It was a breakthro...
Ep 40 - Roger ‘Clouds‘ Badham
Roger ‘Clouds’ Badham is one of the world’s pre-eminent meteorologists and was also the first person to forecast for yachties and boaties on a fulltim...
Ep 39 - Martin Tasker
Martin Tasker spent most of his time behind a microphone, having commentated and presented news stories on anything from the America’s and Admiral's C...
Ep 38 - Leah Fanstone and Keryn McMaster
Leah Fanstone (nee Newbold) and Keryn McMaster were trailblazers for New Zealand women’s offshore sailing in the 1990s. The pair notched up two laps e...
Ep 37 - Chris Bouzaid
Chris Bouzaid has been called the father of New Zealand international keelboat yachting who inspired the likes of Sir Peter Blake and Grant Dalton. He...
Ep 36 - Paul Snow-Hansen and Dan Willcox
Finishing fourth at an Olympic Games is one of the hardest things for any athlete to go through and, unfortunately, it’s what happened to Paul Snow-Ha...
Ep 35 - Tom Ashley
The Olympics have played a large part in Tom Ashley’s life, firstly as a competitor and Olympic gold medallist, then as an international coach and now...
Ep 34 - John Cutler
Few people have done as much in sailing as John Cutler. He’s been involved in five America’s Cups and will next month go to his fifth Olympics – he ca...
Ep 33 - Suzanne McFadden
Suzanne McFadden has been instrumental in the upsurge in coverage of women's sport in this country and was recently named New Zealand sport journalist...
Ep 32 - Tim Dempsey and Brendan Tourelle
Thousands of people with disabilities go sailing every year and it’s a side of our sport that is growing all the time as people experience a level of...
Ep 31 - Peter Montgomery
Peter Montgomery has the most recognisable voice in world sailing and is known colloquially as the Voice of the America’s Cup, having commentated the...
Ep 30 - Rosie Chapman
Statistics show the number of females who belong to yachting and boating clubs in this country drops from about 30 percent at youth level to 20 percen...
Ep 29 - Max Sirena
Max Sirena is an America’s Cup survivor, having done seven campaigns with various teams, but he has a burning desire to win the America’s Cup with an...
Ep 28 - Dr Dave Austin
Dave Austin is well known to many in the New Zealand and Australian sailing communities as Dr Dave. He’s sailed more than 40,000 offshore miles, done...
Ep 27 - Elana Connor
Elana Connor’s story is a remarkable and powerful one. Born into a violent family where she feared for her life, she ran away from home as a teenager...
Ep 26 - Simon van Velthooven
Simon van Velthooven has made an art form out of turning pedals. In a past life he was a world-class track cyclist, winning Olympic, world championshi...
Ep 25 - Shirley Robertson
Shirley Robertson is one of the most recognisable voices in the sailing world, as a commentator for anything from the Olympics and America’s Cup to ma...
Ep 24 - Jim Turner
Jim Turner was a leading figure in American Magic's challenge for the America’s Cup, which ended last week when they were eliminated from the Prada Cu...
Ep 23 - Nigel Blackbourn
Nigel Blackbourn has been involved in the superyacht industry for a large part of his 40 years at sea. He’s worked for some of the wealthiest people i...
Ep 22 - Conrad Colman
Conrad Colman astonished the sailing world with his feats in the last Vendee Globe, the single-handed, non-stop race around the world. He faced a cata...
Ep 21 - 1987 Admiral's Cup
In 1987 New Zealand won the Admiral's Cup, considered the world championships of keelboat sailing, for the first and only time. It was something New Z...
Ep 20 - Coastal Classic Special
In this podcast we bring you a special edition on New Zealand’s great race. The Coastal Classic was first contested in 1982 and now attracts more than...
Ep 19 - Nathan Outteridge
Nathan Outteridge is one of the world's top sailors, having been an Olympic 49er champion and four-time world champion, skipper of two America’s Cup c...
Ep 18 - Graeme Sinclair
Graeme Sinclair is a boatie who has been the face of the television show Gone Fishing for 27 years, presented various documentaries, been involved in...
Ep 17 - Sally Garrett
Sally Garrett is best known for her exploits in short-handed sailing, being the only woman to have competed in two Round New Zealand races, and she’s...
Ep 16 - Alistair Moore
Alistair Moore is probably best described as a sailing adventurer. He's amassed over 300,000 nautical miles at sea and was a member of Blake Expeditio...
Ep 15 - Barbara Kendall
Barbara Kendall is the rainbow girl of New Zealand sailing, collecting the full range of Olympic medals during an illustrious career, and she's also t...
Ep 14 - Harold Bennett
Harold Bennett is best known for being the principal race officer for five America’s Cup between 2000 and 2013. He was front and centre for Team New Z...
Ep 13 - Hamish Willcox
Hamish Willcox has achieved incredible success in the sport as both a sailor and coach. He won three 470 world titles with David Barnes in the early 1...