{"podcast":{"title":"Offshore Sailing and Cruising with Paul Trammell","slug":"offshore-sailing-and-cruising-with-paul-trammell-712728","podcast_index_feed_id":712728,"rss_url":"https://paultrammell.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://offshoresailingandcruising.libsyn.com/site","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/d/7/0/7/d707a1063f31fc34a04421dee9605cbd/logo5.png","author":"Paul Trammell","episode_count":307,"summary":"Interviews with offshore sailors and those in the industry sharing exciting stories and useful information so we can better enjoy and better prepare for our own adventures.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-08T10:17:44.915577+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/offshore-sailing-and-cruising-with-paul-trammell-712728"},"episode":{"title":"Alison Gieschen, Circumnavigating on a Taswell 43","slug":"alison-gieschen-circumnavigating-on-a-taswell-43","published_at":"2026-03-30T04:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/offshore-sailing-and-cruising-with-paul-trammell-712728/alison-gieschen-circumnavigating-on-a-taswell-43","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/offshore-sailing-and-cruising-with-paul-trammell-712728","url":"https://paultrammell.libsyn.com/alison-gieschen","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/paultrammell/Allison_Gieschen_-_32926_2.26_PM.mp3?dest-id=2179424","summary":"Alison Gieschen wasin Nuku HIva when I spoke to her, sailing a Taswell 43 on a circumnavigation with her husband. She is also the author of 7 books, including Riding the Waves of Reality I and II. We talk about dealing with an engine problem and a leaking fuel tank, various other problems, Nuku Hiva, selling everything on land to sail around the world, the transition, sailing in cold places, a heavy-weather passage with John Kretschmer, getting boarded by the US Coast Guard, weather routing gone bad, losing a dinghy off the deck in a storm, cruising Ireland and Scotland, sailing in the Mediterranean, where they found the friendliest people, the Azores, things that make the boat more comfortable to live on, in-mast furling, fear, writing, a story about Gigi - the Contessa 32, her book Riding the Waves of Reality , checking into Greece, finding solitude, and more. Links and photos are on the podcast shownotes page Support teh show through Patreon List or browse sailboats for sale at sailboatsforsale.com","meta_description":"Alison Gieschen wasin Nuku HIva when I spoke to her, sailing a Taswell 43 on a circumnavigation with her husband. She is also the author of 7 books, inclu…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4206,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/offshore-sailing-and-cruising-with-paul-trammell-712728/episodes/alison-gieschen-circumnavigating-on-a-taswell-43/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/offshore-sailing-and-cruising-with-paul-trammell-712728/alison-gieschen-circumnavigating-on-a-taswell-43.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}