ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
This is a podcast about the sea and the people who answer its call.
Hosted by a mariner with over 30 years of experience across search and rescue, yacht racing, coastguard, and maritime enforcement, this show dives deep into the real stories of life at sea.
These are not polished tales or manufactured drama. They’re honest, human conversations with sailors, lifeboat crews, adventurers, and everyday people who’ve lived extraordinary moments on the water.
Stories of resilience, humour, loss, camaraderie, and the quiet truths the ocean teaches, told by someone who understands the weight of it.
Each episode is a slow-burn conversation, less interview, more shared watch.
Alongside these deep dives, you’ll hear personal reflections, listener stories, and glimpses into the bond between people and the vessels they trust with their lives.
Whether you’ve spent your life at sea or never left shore, this is a place to listen, reflect, and connect.
Real stories. Told with heart. The kind you carry with you.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 8 days
Average audio length:
38 minutes
Guest interviews
Has sponsors
English
United Kingdom
21 episodes
since April 17, 2026
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
This week on the podcast, Lee is joined by Kelsey Pfendler, the American ocean rower who this summer became the fastest person ever to row solo from California to Hawaii.
Kelsey's route to the Pacific started on a river rather than an ocean. She took her first whitewater trip at 18, qualified …
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This week on the podcast, Lee is joined by Guy Waites, the North Yorkshire solo sailor who took his Tradewind 35, Sagarmatha, around the world singlehanded in the 2022 Golden Globe Race.
Guy's route to the start line was anything but conventional. Two Jester Challenges, a 55 day Atlantic cross…
This week on the podcast, Lee is joined by Ewan, Jamie and Lachlan Maclean — the Scottish brothers behind BROAR, who have rowed two oceans together and set world records on both.
In 2019 they crossed the Atlantic from La Gomera to Antigua in 35 days, becoming the fastest and youngest team of three …
This week on the podcast, Lee is joined by Rhia Pritchard, a tugboat captain whose working life is spent on a very different kind of vessel to most of the boats we talk about on this show.
Tug work is one of those corners of the maritime world that most people never see up close. It's demandin…
This week on the podcast, Lee is joined by Nick Taliadoros, one of the people behind the scenes at Oceans Unplugged.
Nick is usually on the other side of the camera, so this time the roles shift and he takes the guest seat. The conversation covers the show itself, how it came together, and Nick&apo…
This week the roles are reversed. The man who usually asks the questions is the one answering them.
Lee Gallacher has spent more than 30 years around the water — search and rescue, yacht racing, the coastguard, and maritime enforcement. It's the experience that sits behind every conversation o…
This week on Oceans Unplugged, we’re joined by sailor Carsten Haas for a conversation about life on the water, the experiences that have shaped his sailing journey and what keeps drawing him back to the ocean.
Carsten shares stories from his time sailing, the challenges and rewards that come with l…
This week on Oceans Unplugged, we’re joined by Swiss offshore sailor Oliver Heer — the first Swiss-German skipper to complete the legendary Vendée Globe.
Oliver shares his journey from a corporate career to professional ocean racing, the realities of sailing solo around the world, and the determina…
Nigel Rennie is an experienced RYA Yachtmaster Examiner, Ocean Yachtmaster and sailing instructor with decades of offshore sailing experience.
In this episode of Oceans Unplugged, he shares insights into seamanship, ocean navigation and what it takes to become a world-class sailor.
A huge thank you…
In this episode of Oceans Unplugged, Lee Gallacher sits down with Captain Ben McInnis, Harbour Master of Portsmouth and a Master Mariner with decades of experience in the maritime industry.From starting his career at sea through a cadetship to becoming Harbour Master of one of the UK's busiest…
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