Podcast 118: Knocked down in the Pacific - and brutally honest

Explore Norths podcast · Jan 8, 2023 · 56m

James "Jim" Dobie was a skipper in the Clipper Round The World Race when he got brutally knocked down in the North Pacific. Of course, he put on a brave face during the incident, you actually have no choice when you are a skipper in a dangerous situation, but inside he was screaming "I want to get off". Back on shore, he wrote the story as it really happened and how it affected him. It is very few skippers that tell it like it really is, and it was really liberating to read his story. So I just had to make a podcast with him. Here he also talks about his plan to take keen sailors who want to…