Whitecap: The Canadian Sailing Podcast (SEASON 1‪)‬ David Cripton

On this episode is Andy Roy, truly one of my personal heroes in the world of sailing.
We get into the early days of the laser where he and other Canadians dominated the 1982 worlds, the growing masters scene, and what the best bar in Freemantle Australia!
 
Andy was one of the top laser sailors in the world in the early eighties and continues to be one of the top ILCA masters sailors in the world today. 
Career highlights include 2nd place in open worlds in 1982 and 6th in 1983
Also a pan am games silver in 1983 In Venezuela
 
He was tactician in the 1987 Canadian America's cup campaign in Australia with Canada 2
And was the principal helmsman on the Canada's cup, and Admirals Cup.
As a Masters sailor he was 2nd at the worlds 3 times and is a a 3 time Canadian Champion, Including just this year in Montreal. 

Today on the podcast: 49er FX sailors Georgia and Antonia Lewin-LaFrance. These sisters are currently the highest ranking Canadian FX team in the world combining in 2018. In 2019 the won the Canadians and then went on an absolute tear in 2021 placing 3rd at the Europeans and 6th at the worlds in Oman, winning the Canadian Rolex sailors of the year in 2022. 
Georgia has also been SailGP Canada's primary chief strategist and co-pilot, earning the nickname Speedy G from skipper Phil Robertson.
 
We talked about what it's like to race with your sister, the Bluenose one design fleet in Nova Scotia and Antonia deals out our best  advice yet in dealing with nerves "just put the bow down"

Lee Parkhill was the representative in the laser class at the 2016 Olympics, and was the bronze medallist at the Toronto Pan Am Games in 2015, other career highlights include fourth at the World Cup in Weymouth and ranking as high at 11th in the world.
But even with all that success in the laser class, his key to the doorway of Canada's biggest sailing podcast was qualifying to be nominated for the 2023 Pan Am Games in the sunfish class!
 
We talked about his nailbiting qualification against friend and fellow olympian Luke Ramsay, bouncing back from missing the 2012 games and how he became E-Sailing Canadian champion!

The 2022 Whitecap Cup co-winner for equity inclusion and diversity goes to the Broader Reach Program (broaderreach.ca) a learn to sail program based out of the Armdale Yacht Club in Halifax, NS. In this special edition, we talk to Anthony Rosborough founder of the program. Their goal is to expand access to sailing to the broader community in the Halifax Regional Municipality and other communities in Nova Scotia.  The program creates impact by teaching sailing knowledge and skills to wider audiences while building connections between people and communities based on shared experiences. It unites people by a love of being on the water.

 
We had a good chat and as an added bonus some talk about shipbuilding in Halifax in the Early 20th century and a discussion of the biggest one design keelboat class in Nova Scotia: the Bluenose One design
 
Broader Reach's 2023 programs are supported by the Canadian Parks and Recreation Association and the Government of Canada.

Today on the podcast we're talking Fillah Karim, Canada's top ranked ILCA 7 who's stated goal since the age of 12 is to represent Canada at the Olympics.  After narrowly missing out in 2020, he's back, qualifying for the 2023 Pan Am games, and once again chasing the Olympic dream of competing for Canada in Paris 2024!
 
Fillah and I discussed his full time approach to the sport beginning outside the national team structure, how his mental approach to the sport has changed, and in the "highjack the guest" section Fillah gives up some gems on ILCA downwind technique. 

Today we're excited to welcome Sarah Douglas back to the podcast.  Sarah recently WON the Semaine Olympiques Française in the ILCA 6 class, beating 2020 gold medalist Anne Marie Rindom by one point in the process.  She also qualified to be nominated to the Pan Am Games.  We get to listener questions, talk about her match racing strategy in the medal race, and don't try to port tack at the start if she's at the pin!