Podcasts

Elaine Bunting looks at the new generation of multifunction navigation systems and 3D chart software that are revolutionising the way we navigate.

Elaine talks to Jon Mendez of Mendez Marine RYA training centre who gives clear and easy to follow tips and tricks for getting the most out of your navigation system and software.

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Download: Tips and Tricks for Multifunction Navigation Systems (M4a, 3.16 Mb)

Elaine Bunting from Yachting World discovers the tips and tricks for getting the most from your electronic chartplotter.

Elaine talks to navigation expert Jon Mendez of Mendez Marine an RYA training centre that specialise in power craft. Jon shows you the best way to get to grips with what your chartplotter can do for you in easy to follow steps.

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Download: Tips and Tricks for Chartplotters (M4a, 3.27 Mb)

Elaine Bunting explores Raymarine's dedicated environmental testing lab. In this special video podcast, we see how Raymarine products are tested to destruction.

Rough salty conditions make for a really tough life for marine electronic equipment, that's why Raymarine test to extreme. Every product is frozen, baked, shaken, dropped and blasted with water - even the packaging is tested!

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Download: Raymarine Environmental Product Testing (M4a, 17.7 Mb)

Sir Robin Knox Johnston has been making sailing history for 40 years. At the age of 68 he raced single handed around the world in the Velux 5 Oceans Race. It is this great achievement that won him the title of 2007 Raymarine/YJA Yachtsman of the Year, making him the only person to have won the award three times.

12 year old Laurence Greenough earned the title of Raymarine Young Sailor of the Year. Laurence lost a leg two years ago in a boating accident but was back sailing just two months later with the Plymouth Youth Sailing club in an unmodified Topper.

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Download: Raymarine/YJA Yachtsman of the Year and Young Sailor of the Year Winners (M4a, 2.95 Mb)

Some three months after leaving Southampton, 41-year-old Geoff Holt sailed back into the Solent on 5 September and into the record books. He had sailed alone round Britain in a 15ft trimaran: an epic feat for a man who is paralysed from the neck down.

Holt, a former delivery skipper, had an accident at the age of 18 that left him quadriplegic. Since 1990, he has championed disabled sailing and he helped found the charity RYA Sailability, but this spring he set out to make a record-breaking voyage of his own that he had long dreamed about: to become the first disabled sailor to single-handedly circumnavigate Britain. He called it his ‘Personal Everest’.

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Download: Geoff Holt's 'Personal Everest' Sail Around Britain (M4a, 5.16 Mb) 

Classic boats used to be a specialised enthusiasm – almost a cult thing. Even a decade ago there were plenty of unloved former beauties rotting in mud berths. But in the last five or six years classics has been transformed into one of the most vibrant areas of sailing.  

In fact, so many lovely old boats have been brought back to cruising trim that there is a whole circuit of classic events throughout the UK and Europe. One of the most wide-ranging is the biannual Raymarine-sponsored Classic Channel Regatta, which runs every other July from Dartmouth.

Elaine Bunting from Yachting World talks about the revival of classic yachts and the Classic Channel Regatta.

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Download: The Classic Revival (M4a, 5.44 Mb)

Elaine Bunting from Yachting World talks to Raymarine's Senior Product Support Manager Bob Sims about a one hour check that will help you make sure your boat's electronic equipment stays working throughout the season.

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Download: One Hour Pre-Season Checks (M4a, 4.46 Mb)