Passages From The Heart Podcast

Greetings, Sailors! Welcome to the Passages From the Heart Podcast, Ep 17, in which The First Mate and I sit down to have a lil’ chat and debriefing with Jerome Rand of Sailing Into Oblivion! In this episode, we talk about the many valuable lessons we learned from our three-day coaching session with Jerome, up on Lake Superior, aboard our new-to-us 2002 Com-Pac 25. We talk about a plethora of things related to sailing and stewardsh...

Ahoy, sailors! I'm thrilled to introduce you to a remarkable young yachtswoman, Rosie, who, since 2023, has embarked upon restoring — resurrecting — a 1966 Bristol 27 for her senior project at the College of the Atlantic (COA), located in Bar Harbor, Maine. Rosie, originally from the Falkland Islands, graduates from college this June — and along with this stellar achievement, she comes away, in-hand, with a newly renovated sailing ...

Ahoy, sailors! Today’s episode features a topic that’s a difficult one for most sailors/boat owners — should I sell the boat? Specifically, for me, my new-to-me sailboat, SV Solitude, a beautiful 2002 Com-Pac 25 berthed upon on gorgeous Lake Superior. As life often does, a curve ball has been thrown my way and I must navigate through some serious soul-searching to determine if my sailing dreams will be over before they even begin. ...

[MANY APOLOGIES FOR MY MISPRONUNCIATION OF 'ANTIGUA' ON MULTIPLE OCCASIONS. ALSO, MY APOLOGIES FOR THE OCCASIONAL AUDIO/VIDEO CONNECTION ISSUES.] No Welcome, sailors, back to the Passages From The Heart Podcast! So, what happens when average-means are combined with above-average ambition? Meet Josh Kali, builder of his own 5.8m mini yacht, a sailing vessel he calls Skookum, and entrant in the inaugural 2025 Mini Globe Race, otherwi...

Ahoy, sailors, and welcome back to the show! This episode marks my first pod of 2025 and I'm super-stoked to fill y'all in on what's up'! Let's start by saying that I've been keeping busy with all kinds of sailing-related activities! Also, sailing season is just 'round the corner, here, so I've got lots of goodies cookin' to ready for my first season of sailing, up on Lake Superior, with my new-to-me 2002 Com-Pac 25, SV Solitude! A...

Ahoy, sailors! I’m so excited to introduce you to one of my favorite captains — Captain Brandi — a captain I spent time sailing with, on Lake Superior, this past summer. Captain Brandi shares how she came to find her passion in sailing and why she decided to obtain her USCG captain’s license. Captain Brandi also reflects upon the challenges of being a young female captain, how lessons learned out on the water — and from sailing — k...

Welcome, sailors! In this podcast episode, I share a behind-the-scenes look at my recent boat shopping experience and how — and why — I landed on moving forward with purchasing my 2002 Com-Pac 25, SV Solitude!

PLEASE BE KIND -- I'm no expert -- I'm just a regular gal learning as I go! Also, I don't have a huge budget dedicated to equipment and/or other resources for recording video and audio -- but, I put lots of love and time into ...

Ahoy, sailors! Rather than sharing an interview, today’s podcast takes a bit of a different approach than previous podcast episodes. If you’ve been following me on my website, as well as on this YouTube channel, you’re probably in-the-know about how my sailing journey has unfolded the past five years. This summer, my sailing adventures evolved, further, to include sailing around the Apostle Islands on Lake Superior. As a result of ...

Welcome, sailors, to another episode of the Passages From the Heart podcast! In today’s episode, I talk with Owen Murphy, founder/owner of Meridian Marine Electrical! Recently, I had the pleasure of working with Owen to help me convert my Com-Pac 23, Charm’s, former AGM battery system to a new lithium battery system. He also helped me demystify the electrical system onboard Charisma, my Com-Pac Legacy. From a very early age, Owen k...

Welcome, sailors! I have a wonderful interview for you! In this podcast episode, I speak with an absolutely AMAZING sailor and woman — Suzanne Heywood, author of the international bestseller book titled, Wavewalker: A Memoir of Breaking Free. At the age of seven, with her family and a bare-bones crew, Suzanne departed Plymouth, England, for what turned out to be a ten-year odyssey of sailing, throughout the world, aboard a 69′ woo...

What does the soul of sailing mean to you? In this episode, I sit down with my childhood sailing friend, Brian Nicholson, and we talk about how sailing has shaped our lives and what sailing means to us. From his earliest days of sailing solo on his Laser, to crewing aboard his family’s San Juan 24, and then later racing as an adult, on his own sailboat -- a Hobie Cat 16 -- Brian shares how sailing and boating, in general, have infl...

What do you get when you cross a small sailboat with big water? You get Mitchell Loner, aka, “Mitch,” as his YouTube followers call him. For over two years, Mitch has been providing his YouTube viewers with inspirational, educational, creative, and entertaining content with his popular ‘Small Sailboat Big Water’ YouTube channel. In today’s podcast, Mitch shares all sorts of salty tales not only about his journey with sailing, he al...

I’ve got an absolutely stellar show for you! Join me as I interview Jerome Rand, sailor, podcaster, and author of Sailing Into Oblivion: The Solo Non-stop Voyage of the Mighty Sparrow. Jerome is also the creator and host of the popular sailing podcast of the same name, Sailing Into Oblivion. In 2017 - 2018, Jerome set sail aboard his 43-year old sailboat, a Westsail 32 called the Mighty Sparrow, to take on the epic challenge of a ...

Join me as I interview a fellow YouTuber, Squally Heifer of Squally Heifer Adventures, in which we talk ‘all things Com-Pac Legacy!’ Both Squally and I own Com-Pac Legacy sailboats; in this episode, we swap stories about the ins and outs of what it’s like to be the steward of a Legacy. We also discuss the boat as a trailer sailer, how to set-up and rig the boat, and, of course, what it’s like to sail a Com-Pac Legacy!

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Get ready to voyage from the remote south coast fjords of Newfoundland to the steamy jungle of Panama and adventures in between! I chat with author, sailor, podcaster, artist, surfer, and adventurer Paul Trammell as he shares inspiring stories of chasing his dreams and how he came to find peace living aboard Windflower, his beautiful 1972 Cartwright 40.

Before Paul started chasing dreams aboard Windflower, he shares insight from hi...

In today’s episode, I chat with Tomas Fehrling, a Swedish solo sailor who is currently circumnavigating aboard his 2010 Dufour 40e Performance, SY Saoirse. I came to know of Tomas as a result of discovering his sailing blog, sysaoirse.com, a little over two years ago. Since that time, I’ve been following Tomas’ incredible journey, with Saoirse, throughout Europe, the Med, across the Atlantic into the Caribbean, through the Panama C...

In my inaugural podcast episode, I hangout with a fellow Com-Pac owner and my good friend, Ken Johansen. Ken has owned a Com-Pac 16, a Com-Pac 19, a Com-Pac 23, and he currently sails aboard a Com-Pac Sun Cat — in other words, Ken knows Com-Pac boats and he shares lots of insight and experiences regarding his stewardship of all of these amazing models from the line-up, past and present, at Com-Pac Yachts!

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