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We are taking a short break while John works the Annapolis Sailboat Show and then heads for the Leeward Islands aboard Ave del Mar.Over in Mallorca, Mike has a couple of walls to knock down.Rest assured, we have plenty of fascinating guests a
David Gluckman grew up in South Africa when the country was still in the grip of apartheid. He arrived in London at the start of the sixties and spent a great deal of time chasing women, drinking booze and smoking cigarettes.He was an ad man a
This week, the dynamic duo talk about in-mast furling, stick shift versus auto cars and impressionist paintings. Because why not.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/remarkablestories/message
This is the strange tale of a British family who decided to establish their own nation.On Christmas Eve 1966, Paddy Bates and his son, Michael, took possession of an abandoned anti-aircraft gun emplacement seven and a half miles off the coast
John met Johannes Volbehr in Jamaica a few years ago. At the time, the happy-go-lucky world traveller was making his way from Germany to South America by working his passage aboard private sailing vessels.Shortly after their encounter, Johanne
Arlene Limas didn't know who she was going to fight, and she never expected that her toughest opponent would be the governing body of her own sport, Taekwondo. And why did they fight Arlene? Because she was simply too good.Still, there was dr
In Part One of "WILL THIS KILL ME," Garry Eveleigh joined Remarkable Stories' Mike McDowall as the pair traipsed about the island of Mallorca in search of edible wild food. They found plenty of delicious things to eat—but no mushrooms. And sinc
Garry Eveleigh finds food everywhere—in the front yard, in the hillsides, at the side of the road. He knows which plants are delicious and which may kill you. You see, Garry is a professional forager.He has been employed by some very high-end
In a very different edition of Remarkable Stories, John gets together with his friend Dano to tear into some YouTube sailing channels and to recommend alternatives to the usual top five. There's not enough room to list the channels we offend, b
Oscar Siches has more than earned his citizenship of the oceans. After a short but illustrious career racing sailboats and many years as the skipper of charter yachts, he settled in Palma de Mallorca, where he designed, built and managed the ki
Everything Spencer and Brenda Litzenberger touch ends up playing out like a madcap slapstick comedy. They are Bonnie & Clyde meets It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World minus the machine guns and bank robberies. From boats to yurts, Alaska to vomit bags
1m1's life story is at once tragic and uplifting. His childhood was fragmented by repeated abductions at the hands of his warring parents. But it was also filled with a rich variety of culture and language as he was moved from country to countr
While attending the prestigious Manhattan School of Music, Obed Calvaire met Wynton Marsalis, one of the biggest names in jazz. That connection led to an offer for Obed to drum for the trumpet-playing legend. Obed speaks with Remarkable Stori
We are taking this week off for the American July 4th holiday, but we've sent you a message. ♡ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/remarkablestories/message
"Posh Pete" — born Pieter Tritton — smuggled millions of dollars of cocaine out of South America, managing to stay one step ahead of law enforcement for years. But eventually his luck ran out, and he was apprehended in a hotel room in Ecuador w
Janine Georgette wanted to learn to sail. She was, in her words, "sea bit." But she lives in New York City—one of the most expensive cities in the US and certainly not an easy place for a divorced woman in her 60s to find a boat on a shoestring
Mansoor Adayfi was held at Guantanamo Bay for fourteen years. He was never charged with a crime.Mark Fallon was the NCIS agent in charge of criminal investigations at Guantanamo Bay.This is the second part of Mansoor's story.--- Send in
At the age of eighteen, Mansoor Adayfi was kidnapped by Afghani warlords and sold to the CIA.Despite the fact that he was a teenager from Yemen, his abductors convinced American intelligence agents that he was a middle-aged Egyptian recruitmen
Lou Landreth has been on this Earth for ninety-eight years and has spent much of that time sailing and fighting.She invited Mike McDowall over for tea, cookies, and an argument.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/po
Don McIntyre has spent his entire life engaged in daring exploits. He has sailed the toughest seas, he has led expeditions to the most inhospitable places, he has been an endurance pilot, a rally driver, and an Antarctic explorer. He has won me
Jon Martins was a qualified tandem sky-diving instructor, parachute packer, and cameraman by the age of 20. After performing thousands of jumps, Jon met tragedy on New Years Eve of 2012 as he experienced a hard landing that caused a spinal frac
This episode of Remarkable Stories has been removed at the request of the interviewee. In its place, you can hear an early trailer from back when we were called Seabird.However, I am excited to let you know that Imi will be back, on Wednesday,
The former owner and captain of a Charleston, South Carolina, charter company, Banff Luther has once again tossed the predictable aside to pursue life in an unconventional way.Trading the sea for the mountains, Banff recently acquired his cont
In January of 2020, Seabird’s John Herlig crewed together with his friend Benjamin on the delivery of a 44’ Antares catamaran named Seahorse from Rio Dulce, Guatemala, to the island state of Grenada in the Windward Islands of the Caribbean.A y
John Barry never knew his father, a fighter pilot who was killed in action in WWII. But John grew up determined to honor his father's memory by living life to the full and not wasting away in the confines of a dusty office.As a young man, he l
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