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Sailing races are the oldest extreme sport on earth: small crews, huge oceans, and a finish line that can be ten thousand miles from the start. Between those points lie storms, icebergs, mutinies of morale, and decisions with no good options. This show tells the true stories of sailing races.

Each episode reconstructs one race in full, cinematic detail: the boats and their obsessive skippers, the route and its traps, the tactical gambles in the dark, and the finishes decided by minutes after weeks at sea. No host chatting between clips, no panel debating tactics. Just one complete story, narrated start to finish, built from logs, radio transcripts, and the testimony of sailors.

You will race through sailing legends where solo skippers hallucinated their way across oceans, crews pushed hulls past their limits into the Southern Ocean, and rescues where competitors turned around and sailed into the storm for each other. Some episodes follow one boat's race from start gun to finish; others cover the disasters that rewrote sailing's rules. All of them treat sailing races as what they are: chess played on a board that is actively trying to kill the players.

If you are drawn to sailing stories that read like slow-burning thrillers, this is built for you. New episodes drop regularly, each one a self-contained race. Subscribe now so the next one lands the moment it goes live.Copyright OBOMEDIA ENTERTAINMENT Fantascienza
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  • The Pacific islands convinced him to leave France and sail away

    The Pacific islands convinced him to leave France and sail away
    Sep 7 2026
    The Pacific islands convinced him to leave France and sail away

    On July 21, 1929, a battered 39-foot sloop called Firecrest sailed alone into Cherbourg harbor, closing out a voyage of 700 days and 40,000 miles. Within months of that hero's welcome, the man aboard was already drawing plans for a new boat to sail away again. What made a decorated war hero and French tennis champion choose the islands of the Pacific over the life waiting for him at home?

    In this episode, we follow Alain Gerbault from a tennis court in France to the decks of two boats he sailed alone across every major ocean, asking what a man discovers about home once he has spent seven hundred days trying to get back to it.

    Person: Alain Gerbault
    Location: Bora, French Polynesia
    Date: December 16, 1941
    Case: the circumnavigation and disappearance of a French solo sailor into the Pacific
    Status: died of tropical fever in Dili, East Timor; buried six years later on Bora

    - Gerbault sailed Firecrest, a 39-foot Dixon Kemp-designed sloop built in 1892, single

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    21 min
  • The Broken Mast That Forced Her to Rebuild a Route

    The Broken Mast That Forced Her to Rebuild a Route
    Sep 7 2026
    The Broken Mast That Forced Her to Rebuild a Route

    A yacht with no mast, one sailor aboard, and a thousand nautical miles of open water between her and the nearest land - in a sea where the cold alone can kill in minutes. When rescue is days away and the record you set out to break may already be gone, what do you build from the wreckage to get home?

    In this episode, we follow Lisa Blair's path from hostess in the Whitsundays to solo ocean racer, tracing her early passages and milestones up to the moment her 2017 non-stop, unassisted Antarctic circumnavigation attempt was interrupted by a dismasting, asking whether that knockdown was the crisis of her voyage or only the beginning of a longer test.

    Person: Lisa Blair
    Location: Southern Ocean, approximately 1,000 nautical miles from land
    Date: Day 72 of the 2017 Antarctic circumnavigation attempt
    Case: the dismasting of the yacht Climate Action Now
    Status: not stated

    - She began working as a hostess at age 25 on a charter vessel in the Whitsundays.
    - In 2008 she completed her first ocean passage as crew, delivering a yacht from Australia to Hawaii.
    - In 2011 she served as watch leader, bowman, rigger, and helmsman aboard Gold Coast Australia, which won the 2011-12 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race overall.
    - She borrowed a yacht one week before the 2014 Solo Tasman Challenge and completed the race.
    - Her boat, a Hick 50 built in 2003 and originally named Funnel-Web, was renamed Climate Action Now.
    - The goal of the 2017 attempt was to become the first woman to sail solo, non-stop, and unassisted around Antarctica, beating the standing record of 102 days.
    - On day 72, the yacht knocked down in the Southern Ocean and the mast was entirely gone.

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    30 min
  • The leg‑irons that reshaped his skin and stole his childhood

    The leg‑irons that reshaped his skin and stole his childhood
    Sep 7 2026
    The leg‑irons that reshaped his skin and stole his childhood

    He was fourteen when the sea took him and twenty-four when he came back, and by then he had forgotten how to sit in a chair or hold a knife and fork in his own country. The boy who left Plymouth Sound on the Hannibal disappeared somewhere in a decade of leg-irons, a stolen name, and a war he fought without ever choosing a side. What does it take to make a man a stranger in his own language?

    In this episode, we follow James Scurry from a Devonshire fife player to a conscripted soldier in Tipu Sultan's army at Seringapatam, asking what ten years of captivity actually costs a person once the irons come off.

    Person: James Scurry
    Location: Seringapatam, Kingdom of Mysore
    Date: 1780 to 1790
    Case: ten years of captivity in the dominions of Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan
    Status: escaped in 1790, returned to England, wrote a memoir published posthumously in 1824

    - Scurry was captured at fourteen when the Hannibal was taken by the French admiral Suffren and handed to Hyder Ali five days from Madras
    - He and fifteen other young men were circumcised, converted, and conscripted at Seringapatam, where he was given the name Shamsher Khan
    - In 1785 Scurry witnessed roughly thirty thousand Mangalorean Catholics marched to Seringapatam, their officers mutilated and paraded backward on donkeys after refusing to hand over their daughters
    - He left a wife and daughter behind during his escape in 1790, traveling through forests and testing multiple forts before reaching English encampments
    - His memoir, written in 1794 and published in 1824 as The Captivity, Sufferings and Escape of James Scurry, remains a primary first-hand account of imprisonment under Tipu Sultan

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    16 min
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