The sailing podcast landscape is well-populated. The racing podcast, the cruising podcast, the technical podcast for the sailor who wants to understand the weather routing or the rigging or the safety systems of the offshore boat. These exist and they serve the sailing audience that wants the specific expertise they provide.
The Naora podcast is not in this category. It is in the category that does not yet exist in the sailing world: the long conversation with the person who went offshore and who has something honest to say about what the offshore experience produced in them, not as sailors but as people.
The podcast guest who interests us is not primarily the sailing expert. It is the CEO who spent three weeks in the Pacific and came back with the specific recalibration of what they thought they were capable of. The entrepreneur who boarded the Atlantic crossing at the most pressured point of the company’s history and who understood something about leadership in the third week of the crossing that the twenty years of the professional life had not produced in the same form.
The member who has never sailed before who found the offshore reference on their first leg and who can describe what it was and what it produced with the precision of the person who encountered something genuinely new and who is still working out what to do with it.
The Format and the Streaming
The episodes are long. Not because we do not edit, we edit. But because the conversation that produces the honest account of the offshore experience does not happen in twenty minutes and the edit that compresses it to twenty minutes loses the specific quality that makes the account worth hearing. The person who listens to the Naora podcast for an hour and comes away with the offshore reference from someone else’s experience is the person for whom the long format was the correct format. The person who wants the twenty-minute summary will find it. It will not have the same content.
Circle members stream the podcast episodes on our website before the public release on Apple Music and Spotify. The episode that was recorded at anchor in the Seychelles lagoon or at the Long Table in the Banda Sea is available to the Circle as it comes out of the edit before it is released to the public audience that the podcast platform distributes it to.
This is the natural expression of the community’s relationship with the content: the people who are part of the story are the first audience for the story’s documentation
