Whitecap: The Canadian Sailing Podcast

Annie Haeger is winner of US sailing’s 2015 Yachtswoman of the year, a youth worlds silver medalist in, US women’s college sailor of the year, and she placed 7th at the Olympics in the 470 in Rio, she is currently the chief strategist and Co pilot for Sail GP CANADA. After a bitter end to her olympic dream, and two years not sailing at all, she was able rediscove the fun in sai

Drew and I taked sailmaking, distance sailing, the bluenose one design and of course all thinggs CHESTER RACE WEEK! Drew grew up sailing at the Lunenburg Yacht Club in Nova Scotia. He has raced on and coached high performance one design sailboats for over 20 years. He managed the North Sails Vancouver loft for over a decade and has recently moved back to Nova Scotia picking up a dr

Ken is a Canadian coaching legend and since 1990 has been the High Performance Director, Chief Training Officer and Head Coach of the national sailing team. Paris 2024 is the 9th Olympics he’s coached in as well as 4 Paralympic games, 6 Pan Ams and hundreds of World Championships. We spoke about our Canadian olympic hopefuls, Ken's philosophies and impressions of our all time

Ryan Kelly is the CEO of Sail Canada. Ryan is a lifelong sailor, having worked in support of the sea cadets program, president of Sail Newfoundland and Labrador and as a Sail Canada learning facilitator. He's been a dinghy coach, skiff sailor and is presently developing his chops as an offshore racer. Our conversation was wide ranging, covering the development off Canadian Olympic

!!SEASON 3 PREMIERE!! Captain Glenn from BELOW DECK:SAILING YACHT!! With over 250k followers on IG Captain Glenn Shepard, a Montrealer, is without question the most famous Canadian sailor on earth. He is the star of the wildly popular and highly entertaining Bravo reality series Below Deck Sailing Yacht. Captain Glenn gets into detail about the famous scene of running the tra

With me today is Gwenn Duval, member of Femina Ocean Challenge team who will be racing in the famed transatlantic Quebec a St Malo race in June 2024 Gwenn is a masters student in Oceanography and has been sailing since she can remember. She spent two years teaching sailing in the Mediterranean and Brittany, has a Yachtmaster Offshore certificate in England, did a transatlantic c

Today we're previewing. The princess Sophia, Regatta, and Palmer Spain with me is Rob Hemming Rob is a former member of the national team competing in the Finn class from 2012 until 2017 where he rose to a top ranking of 30th in the world. He was also a coach at the 2020 olympics and most recently was the helmsman for Canada's entry into the star Sailor's league gold cup world ch

Fresh from their 8th place finish and OLYMPIC QUALIFICATION!!, Georgia and Antonia take us through their experience at the 49er Worlds in Lanzarote, Spain, including their emotional last day, coming 2nd in the medal race and capsizing right AFTER the finish line live on the broadcast.

Today we're officially announcing the winner of the 2023 Whitecap Cup for diversity, equity and inclusion...Broad Reach Canada! Based in Toronto, Their mission is to engage under represented youth in the development of knowledge, skills and social belonging through sailing, and 2023 was their 25th anniversary. On the podcast are Margeurite Pyron and Eliana Cai. Margeurite i

Rolex Sailor of the year Melodie Schaffer raced her boat Whiskey Jack in the Globe 40, a 35,000-mile, eight-leg, double handed around the world race in in Class 40s. Seven teams took part in the 175-day event which started in Morocco and endd in France. Overall, “Whiskey Jack”, Melodie and co-skippers: Gary Jacques, Mikael Ryking, Jeronimo Santos, Robert Phillips, Paul Stratfol