Whitecap: The Canadian Sailing Podcast David Cripton

Ken is a Canadian coaching legend and since 1990 has been the High Performance Director, Chief Training Officer and Head Coach of the national sailing team.   
 
Paris 2024 is the 9th Olympics he’s coached in as well as 4 Paralympic games, 6 Pan Ams and hundreds of World Championships.  We spoke about our Canadian olympic hopefuls, Ken's philosophies and impressions of our all time great athletes, and the size of the mosquitos in Gimli, Manitoba!

Ryan Kelly is the CEO of Sail Canada.  Ryan is a lifelong sailor, having worked in support of the sea cadets program, president of Sail Newfoundland and Labrador and as a Sail Canada learning facilitator.  He's been a dinghy coach, skiff sailor and is presently developing his chops as an offshore racer.  Our conversation was wide ranging, covering the development off Canadian Olympic hopefuls, improving the growth of the sport from coast to coast to coast, and of course the glories of sailing in Newfoundland's Conception Bay!

!!SEASON 3 PREMIERE!! Captain Glenn from BELOW DECK:SAILING YACHT!!    
With over 250k followers on IG Captain Glenn Shepard, a Montrealer, is without question the most famous Canadian sailor on earth. He is the star of the wildly popular and  highly entertaining  Bravo reality series Below Deck Sailing Yacht. 
 
Captain Glenn gets into detail about the famous scene of running the transom 177 ft super yacht onto a cement dock in Croatia,  he confirmed that he would be in the cast of an upcoming season 5 and he expressed how closely he follows SailGP Canada and would love to get a ride with Phil and the gang someday!    
 
Now in its 4th season The show follows the trials and tribulations of Captain Sheppard and his crew as they go through a series of charters aboard the superyacht Parsival 3. Captain Glenn thanks for being on

With me today is Gwenn Duval, member of Femina Ocean Challenge team who will be racing in the famed transatlantic Quebec a St Malo race in June 2024 
 
Gwenn is a masters student in Oceanography and has been sailing since she can remember.
She spent two years teaching sailing in the Mediterranean and Brittany, has a Yachtmaster Offshore certificate in England, did a transatlantic crossing from West to East in the middle of COVID, and is now one of 4 crew preparing for the Quebec a St Malo race in their class 40 Equinoxe
This episode is brought to you by North Sails.

Today we're previewing. The princess Sophia, Regatta, and Palmer Spain with me is Rob Hemming
Rob is a former member of the national team competing in the Finn class from 2012 until 2017 where he  rose to a top ranking of 30th in the world. 

He was also a coach at the 2020 olympics and most recently was the helmsman for Canada's entry into the star Sailor's league gold cup world championships in Spain. 
Outside of competing, Rob is also on the Sail Canada Board of Directors as an athlete Director

Fresh from their 8th place finish and OLYMPIC QUALIFICATION!!, Georgia and Antonia take us through their experience at the 49er Worlds in Lanzarote, Spain, including their emotional last day, coming 2nd in the medal race and capsizing right AFTER the finish line live on the broadcast.