The Morning Muster Sailing Podcast

Jan 07 2025 31 ep. 52 mins 70

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Dive deep into the substance of sailing’s most engaging topics. During each episode, Teresa & Ben Carey catch up with 2 guests: cruisers, maritime professionals, and old salts — to discuss the lessons the ocean had in store for them.

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Atlantic Crossing: West to East - what it takes to cross an ocean

Jan 07 2025 53 mins

This is a fascinating episode with lots of great insights and experience shared!Sailing across the Atlantic Ocean is a demanding undertaking! In this episode we discuss the preps and plans for a West to East crossing with two sailors, who recently made the passage. We discuss what they were thinking about before departure, the projects they did, the weather planning and routing dec

Oops My Boat's Too Big - how to determine what size boat to get

Nov 12 2024 40 mins

The trend in bluewater cruising, liveaboard, oceans sailing yachts has been moving towards bigger boats, comfortable living spaces with multiple cabins, galley, and larger bathrooms. But these sailboats are expensive to buy, maintain, and insure, requires more crew, are more difficult to handle, both offshore and in marinas or tight areas.We talk with Kim Stephens & John Harrie

World Schooling Around The World

Mar 06 2024 43 mins

World schooling is the educational approach where learning takes place primarily through travel and experiencing different cultures and environments around the world. Sometimes, World Schooling can involve short-term trips, like the 3-months Teresa and I are currently spending in Italy while our son, Haven, attends a school here. We’re doing this with a program called Boundless L

Sailing to, and Cruising The Bahamas

Feb 14 2024 48 mins

This Episode:Today we’ll eavesdrop on a conversation Ben had with two sailors who are cruising in the Bahamas. Our guests are Nica Waters, who you may know from the Boat Galley Podcast or her blog Fit2Sail, and Dave Martin, a former MoA Student and Marine industry professional turned (mostly) full-time cruiser. Ben talked with them about their recent crossings to the Bahamas, whi

Lessons Learned From A Yacht Delivery

Jan 12 2024 38 mins

In this episode, we’re talking about delivering boats with two sailors who recently completed their first yacht delivery and learned a lot.Teresa sat down with Nicki Ripple, a professional captain who’s worked for Morse Alpha, Outward Bound, and a number of tall ships. We're also talking with Mischa Kapijimpanga who was a Morse Alpha student last summer (2023) and recently boug

Cruising and Creating: Balancing Content and Adventure

Dec 21 2023 36 mins

In this episode, we delve into the lives of cruisers who effortlessly balance content creation—blogs, podcasts, videos—with the pleasures of sailing. Discover how these adventurous souls manage to capture their sailing experiences while still relishing the joys of life at sea.Breena Litzenberger, sailor, host of Litzenbergers Saiing Podcast. Started sailing back in 2010 with he

Weather, Forecasts & Routing

Dec 06 2023 36 mins

Ben sat down with Jon Bilger, the founding director of PredictWind, a weather app – well, more than a weather app. It helps sailors plan voyages and find weather windows. Ben also talked with Behan Gifford, Circumnavigator and cruising consultant. The three of them talked about Weather forecasting tools and the professional-level data that is available to all of us now, anywhere

Getting A Grip On Lines And Rigging

Mar 21 2023 61 mins

We invited Amanda Swan on the show today because not only does she have hundreds of thousands of sea miles under her belt, but she is also educator (and we like educators). She is also a sailmaker, and rigger. And today we’ll be talking about rigging. Yes – the ropes and wires we rely on but rarely make our maintenance checklists. Let’s be real, when was the last time you wal

Sailing At Night & Standing Watch

Feb 21 2023 85 mins

We chat with Behan Gifford and John Worth about sailing at night, standing watch, working on commercial vessels, making passages, ship traffic, AIS, and more. Behan Gifford has made her home aboard a Stevens 47 for the last fifteen years, circumnavigating with her husband and three children. It's given her meaningful experience with sailing at night! The prospect of nighttime saili

Managing Boat Projects

Dec 20 2022 62 mins

Let's talk about boat projects! We love them and hate them, or do we? They require alot of planning and thought, in addition to the actual labor. We chat with two sailors — Steve Swartz and Daphne Douglas, who are both knee-deep in large refits of their boats to discuss the ins and outs of the process. They offer some tips on planning and execution, as well as finding the right b