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Another Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow — Sandy Mackinnon, Part 2

Send us Fan Mail Apparently, one extraordinary voyage in a Mirror dinghy wasn’t quite enough for Sandy Mackinnon! Sandy is back on NanoCruising for Part 2 of our conver

One Little Boat, One Very Long Voyage — Sandy Mackinnon

Send us Fan Mail What happens when you take a little Mirror dinghy and decide to sail it from the UK all the way to the Black Sea? Well… you get one heck of an adventur

No Racing, No Pressure, Just Boats — The Lake Pepin Messabout

Send us Fan Mail What if the best sailing event is one where nobody is trying to win? In this episode of the NanoCruising Podcast, we head to the Lake Pepin Small Boat

Self-Reliance, Survival & the Gorfnik NanoCruiser — André-François Boudreau

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the NanoCruising Podcast, I sit down with André-François Boudreau—sailor, adventurer, survival expert, and designer of the unique Gor

Sam Devlin: I like boats

Send us Fan Mail Boat designer and builder Sam Devlin has spent decades creating some of the most recognizable small cruising boats around. But behind the hundreds of de

Small Boats, Big Ideas — Flavien Gaulard of Kaori Concept

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the NanoCruising podcast, I sit down with Flavien Gaulard, founder of Kaori Concept, to talk about small boats, sustainable boatbuild

Texas 200 Secrets & Small Boat Adventures with Eric Dahlkamp

Send us Fan Mail Eric Dahlkamp has been chasing small boat adventures for years—from building and updating his own boats to taking on some of the most challenging small-

The West Wight Potter — History, Design, and What Makes It Work (with Larry Rumbol)

Send us Fan Mail The West Wight Potter 15 has a bit of a cult following—and for good reason. In this episode of the NanoCruising podcast, I sit down with Larry Rumbol,

The Quiet Side of Sailing — Behind Ruddy Duck Sailing Adventures

Send us Fan Mail Sailing doesn’t have to be fast, extreme, or complicated. In this episode of the NanoCruising podcast, I sit down with Brian Clauson, the voice behind

Learning to Sail: The Long Way Around

Send us Fan Mail Learning to sail is one of those things that’s harder to explain than it should be. You can read about it, watch videos, listen to podcasts—but at some

Small Boat, Big Race: Team Snowflakes on Racing to Alaska

Send us Fan Mail The Race to Alaska is one of the most unusual and demanding events in modern sailing: roughly 700 miles from Washington State to Alaska with no engines

Packrafting & NanoCruising: Small Boats, Big Wilderness

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I sit down with Luc Mehl, author of The Packraft Handbook, to explore a small craft many sailors may not know much about: the packraft.

Small Boats, Smart Risks, Strong Sailors (Great Lakes RAIDs – Part 2)

Send us Fan Mail In Part 2 of our conversation with the organizers behind three Great Lakes RAIDs, we move beyond introductions and into the deeper questions: how do you

Great Lakes RAIDs: Why Small Boats Go Big Up Here (Part 1)

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I’m joined by the organizers behind three major Great Lakes small-craft adventure events to explore what makes each one unique — and wh

Fringe Boats, Big Ideas: John Harris on Design Curiosity and the Golden Age of Small Craft

Send us Fan Mail In Part 2 of my conversation with John Harris of Chesapeake Light Craft, we wander off the beaten path — and that’s very much the point. We talk about

John Harris & Chesapeake Light Craft: Building Small Boats, and a Life Around Them (Part 1)

Send us Fan Mail Chesapeake Light Craft (CLC) has been shaping the world of small boats and home boatbuilding for more than three decades. In this first of two episodes,

From Workshop to Open Water: Sea Trials of an Ocean-Capable Small Sailboat

Send us Fan Mail What happens when a bold small-boat idea finally leaves the dock? In this follow-up conversation, Perry returns to NanoCruising to share the results of

Graham Byrnes: The Mind Behind the Core Sound 17 — A Conversation on Design, Adventure

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I sit down with Graham Byrnes of B & B Yacht Designs—the designer whose Core Sound 17 became a legend in small-boat adventuring. Graham

Cruising Wild: Bass Strait, Capsizes & a Dinghy Around Tasmania

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I’m joined by Geoff Macqueen — sailor, adventurer, and author of Cruising Wild, his newly released account of circumnavigating Tasmania

Serge Testa: The Man Who Circled the World in an 11-Foot Boat

Send us Fan Mail In this special episode, we talk with Serge Testa, the Australian sailor who set a world record by circumnavigating the globe in an 11-foot boat — the A