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Welcome to this episode of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP) with our guests, Adventure Travel couple Kim and Del Hogg from the Going the Whole Hogg blog and YouTube channels.

I caught up with them via a Film they did where they went on a Tall Ship Sailing Whisky tour in Scotland, aboard a rehabbed Herring boat named the Flying Dutchman. It was more than just a YouTube video, it was a Film! Clocking in at an hour and 20 minutes, it was just what I look for in a Travel Experience. This got me hooked, so I started poking around and found their video series aboard another tall ship, the Bessie Ellen.

The Bessie Ellen is a rehabbed trading vessel from 1904 that had plied the waters of the UK for decades, before Captain Nikki Alford found her and brought her back to life. For the past 20 odd years, Captain Nikki has chartered voyages in these waters, and in 2024 voyaged around the UK in celebration of Bessie Ellen’s 120th anniversary. Kim and Del went along for the ride, and is now in the middle of putting out that video series on YouTube.

They have officially gotten bitten by the Sailing Bug, having gone to the Caribbean on another Tall Ship, as well as having plans to do more sailing as part of their adventures in the future.

Many of their Sailing Adventures are made possible by VentureSailHolidays.

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Intro Music by yours truly and Greg Young, available via The Incoherents. The Lean Years Volume 2, on Itunes.
Break music, “Wild Winds of Misfortune” by Leo Disanto of The Vinegar Creek Constituency, and “The Wild Rover” as performed by The Ogham Stones
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