Broad Reach Radio - The Yachting New Zealand Podcast
1) 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 a group from Emirates Team New Zealand trying to b...Show More
2) 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 Zealand-flagged boat to compete in the gruelling eve...Show More
3) 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 into one of the world’s best tennis tournaments. He...Show More
4) 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 race including when he skippered ABN Amro to vict...Show More
5) 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 race, world distance record breaker and the first wom...Show More
6) 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 some circles when she announced earlier this year s...Show More
7) 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 for this episode of Broad Reach Radio is on their O...Show More
8) 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, like the rest of those scattered on the 303 boat...Show More
9) 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 has to do with Dan Bernasconi. Dan is head design...Show More
10) 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 global pandemic. As you might imagine, it was a remark...Show More