sailing Archives - MORSE ALPHA Expeditions https://morsealpha.com/tag/sailing/ Sailing School & Expedition Training Wed, 07 Jan 2026 01:06:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://morsealpha.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/cropped-dotDash-800CLEAN-32x32.jpg sailing Archives - MORSE ALPHA Expeditions https://morsealpha.com/tag/sailing/ 32 32 Ep 34: John Neal on Boat Choices, Outfitting, Insurance, and Experience https://morsealpha.com/john-neal/ Tue, 06 Jan 2026 06:36:01 +0000 https://morsealpha.com/surveyor-broker-2/ This is a topic that every sailor eventually faces, and that’s choosing the right boat, navigating insurance, understanding the market and important outfitting considerations. Our guest today is John Neal. John is widely respected in the sailing community for his decades of passage making experience and for his consulting work, helping sailors select seaworthy boats for offshore voyaging. We first ... Read More

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]]> Ep 33: Cruising Lessons & Insight From The Mediterranean Sea https://morsealpha.com/cruising-the-med-2/ Thu, 18 Dec 2025 06:36:01 +0000 https://morsealpha.com/cruising-the-med-2/ We talk with Will and Sarah of @hydrovane and @jillian.greenawalt aboard SV Mugup, who have just completed 14 months in the Med with their 3 kids exploring and enjoying the history, culture, food and kid boats! This is an informative episode with lots of info that applies to any cruising destination in general, but that’ll also surely make you want to set a course ... Read More

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]]> Ep 32: Why you need a great surveyor and an honest broker https://morsealpha.com/surveyor-broker/ Sun, 30 Nov 2025 13:36:01 +0000 https://morsealpha.com/atlantic-crossing-west-to-east-2/ Loved chatting with these two professionals! Our guests this episode are Scott Woodruff, a seasoned boat broker and consultant, and Ian Stewart, an experienced marine surveyor. It’s a great episode, worth careful listening for the nuggets are plentiful and the conversation moves quickly through a bunch of great topics. This episode dives into how to buy and sell used cruising ... Read More

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]]> Ep 31: Atlantic Crossing: West to East – what it takes to cross an ocean https://morsealpha.com/atlantic-crossing-west-to-east/ Wed, 13 Nov 2024 13:36:01 +0000 https://morsealpha.com/oops-my-boats-too-big-2/ 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 ... Read More

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