flying dutchman

This week on the podcast we take a dive (pun intended) into the story of the Flying Dutchman.
How did this frightful sight come to be? Where does history end and the stories begin? Who saw it and why is it unlucky? Who was Davy Jones and what does he have to do with things anyway?

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In this week's episode, we're heading out to the seven seas for the nautical legend of Davy Jones! How does this monster relate to a pub owner in England back in the 1700's? What really is Davy Jones' Locker? Find out this week!

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Jackalope Carnival again takes to the high seas in search of abandoned ghost vessels, ghosts on ships and ships that are ghosts.

 Also: phantom ships, missing crews and ruddy men who leave their shoes lying about in strange places shouting with Scandinavian accents through megaphones. 

Don't worry, Bekah and Eric have it all under control and ship shape. 
As much as a Jackalope Carnival can be...

Also: what do Edgar Allen Poe, Richard Wagner and Sponge Bob all have in common?

                  This week we dive into tales of ghost ships from folklore and legends and real life history. Some of these ships have been found simply abandoned and there crews were never seen again, others have been discovered with their crews dead and still manning their stations, others are timeless legends of spectral vessels that have been seen through the ages. Pack your speedo and arm floaties for this one. 

What’s better than ghosts stories or pirate stories? Ghost pirate stories! This week we dive into three tales of the deep blue sea, and the men cursed to sail it for eternity.

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This month double Olympic gold medalist Shirley Robertson goes back to her sailing roots as she talks about success and failure with six very different multiple Olympic medallists. The interviews span fifty two years of Olympic competition, feature a total of twelve medals, seven gold, and include some of the biggest names in Olympic Sailing.

The two part podcast kicks off with London 2012 Laser gold medallist Tom Slingsby, and his emotional account of how the surprise of failure in Beijing 2008 drove him to the top of the podium four years later in London.  Slingsby's is a fascinating account, starting with his memories of how, while watching Sydney 2000, he resolved to one day stand atop the Olympic podium.

"I'm not the most athletically gifted person, when I started training and sailing I was not a good junior sailor, before the Sydney Olympics, before I dedicated myself to it I finished 61st at the Radial Nationals in 1999, I was mediocre, but I said 'I love this sport, I wanna do it and I'm gonna train and put in the work' and I just felt like a regular kid, I just loved it and dedicated myself to it."

British 470 Women's Olympic Champion Hannah Mills tells how disruptive a postponed Olympics has been, having decided to return to defend her crown after her win in Rio 2016.

Mills goes on to reveal to Robertson how the relative disappointment of a silver medal at her home Games in London 2012 really fuelled the determination for herself and crew Saskia Clarke, as they resolved to go the distance one last time together, in a bid to go one better and win in Rio.  Mills discusses the Rio regatta, and what finally winning Olympic gold with her best friend meant to the pair as they began to realise their achievement.

From the amateur Olympic era of the 1960s and 70s Robertson then interviews British Olympic sailing legend Rodney Pattisson, a double Olympic gold medallist from Mexico City 1968 and Munich 1972 and a silver medallist from Montreal 1976.  Pattisson sailed the Flying Dutchman Class, was a submarine officer in the Royal Navy, and is widely known as being one of the forefathers of the 'no stone unturned' approach to modern Olympic sailing.  His tales of fine tuning and optimisation while simultaneously duping his opposition are not just amusing, but also show a ruthless and dogged approach to competition, here explaining a dominant display at the Munich Games of 1972...

"People didn't know I'd built another boat, they still thought it was the old one and I kept that a secret right up until after the Games.  It had the same name on the side of the boat, it had the same colours.  One of the things I did was that the old, slower boat had had a prang, and so there was a repair inside the boat that you could see on the varnish work, so I copied that repair and anybody that had a suspicion at all looked underneath the stern deck, knew about the collision and thought it had to be the same boat."