Podcast 181: Sailing slow around the world

Explore Norths podcast · Oct 31, 2025 · 1h 1m

Simon Currin and his wife Sally started their circumnavigation in 2015. They started in the high latitudes by cruising in the summer season and leaving their boat, Shimshal, a 47-foot deckhouse built by CR Yachts in Orust, Sweden, in various locations around the world while they went back to the UK to work. Ten years later, the couple has reached New Zealand and is full-time cruisers.

You can read more about their adventures on Voyages of Shimshal.

Simon is a former commodore of the Ocean Cruising Club (OCC), and Sally is a former Treasurer of the same club. OCC is a gathering of sailors with…