Ep. 1182: Learning to Live Aboard a Sailboat Revisited - Nathan Zahrt and Vivian Vuong
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Offshore sailing: Vivian and Nathan's journey from delivering boats and conducting training sessions to launching their own career offering offshore trips aboard their 47-foot sailboat Ultima, blending travel, excitement, endurance, and fulfillment by helping others achieve their sailing dreams.
After starting out delivering other people's boats, and then training those same people, Vivian and Nathan began to realize there may be something there and started offering offshore sailing adventures aboard our 47' sailboat, Ultima. Ultimately, they’ve turned their passion into a career giving them a great mix of travel, excitement, endurance, and a sense of satisfaction helping others achieve their sailing goals.
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Vivian is also a photographer. She worked on a couple of documentaries and started a photo business before venturing into sailing. Now, she is a sailing photojournalist. Find her work at vivianvuong.com.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | Thanks for adventuring with us as we discover what incredible athletes and outdoor enthusiasts are doing all over the world. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. This is Caleb. |
| 0:22.9 | In today's revisited episode, we have Mason interviewing Nathan Zart and Vivian Vaughn. |
| 0:30.0 | In this episode, they explore how their passion for sailing started, even though they were both born sort of in landlocked western United States and how |
| 0:40.2 | that passion eventually grew into a career. Today they take groups out offering offshore sailing |
| 0:47.1 | adventures and training sessions. And through that, they've been able to live a life of travel, excitement, endurance, and a sense of |
| 0:57.4 | satisfaction with helping others achieve their sailing goals. |
| 1:01.4 | It's a great episode. |
| 1:03.2 | Here's Mason. |
| 1:05.4 | But if you don't mind, start with telling us, where are you right now? |
| 1:09.6 | We are in Solomon's Maryland. |
| 1:11.8 | It's about an hour and a half south of Washington, D.C. |
| 1:15.8 | At a little marina where we like to do a lot of our boatwork and yard work. |
| 1:23.1 | They have a all-out travel lift and pretty much everything we need to work on the boat here. |
| 1:29.8 | Yeah, it's called Spring Cove Marina, and it's probably the best marina I've ever been to |
| 1:34.6 | just because a lot of marinas don't have a lot of park area. |
| 1:41.3 | They don't have a lot of real estate, this marina in particular they have huge uh area to |
| 1:46.5 | sit with picnic benches and they have a huge yard that they let you do most of your own work on if you |
| 1:53.3 | don't want to contract somebody so it really helps us out you get best of both worlds so you so you live |
| 2:00.3 | on a boat and have a yard you got to maintain. No, no. In the yard, we work on our boat. Very cool. Well, let me ask you this. I've always wanted to know when you when you're on a boat and you want to go to a marina, how does it work? You just pull up like you would at a hotel and say, hey, do you have any slots available, any space available, or do you have to call ahead? What does that look like? |
| 2:23.3 | Typically, with marinas, you would need to reserve, but sometimes if you are just traveling, you |
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