Love to talk about sailing? Sailor talk from the Chesapeake Bay from blue collar sailors who love cruising, racing, and telling "And there we were" stories.
Welcome to this episode of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP) number 192 from the Spring Sailboat Show in Annapolis. Warning ahead of time, all of the interviews are contaminated with interference noise from god knows what. You would think I would have figured this out by now, that half the time I do […]
Welcome to this episode of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP)! This time around we burn some socks for the equinox, as Hances Point Yacht Club celebrates their opening day festivities in 2025. It’s been almost Ten years since we’ve recorded one of these ceremonies. We also speak with Jim and Jessie, now that […]
Welcome to this episode of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP) where we chat with Captain Boomies and the Dadmiral about safety on the water. Brought on by one particular Insta Reel that she put out last year, where she thought she was in the middle of an honest to goodness Mayday situation, this […]
Welcome to episode 189 of The Shooting the Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP), our chat with Upper Chesapeake Bay Sailing Facebook groups resident Guru, Thad Van Gilder. He started sailing when he was a young kid, building small boats as he went along. The backwaters of the NJ shore were his playground where he honed his […]
Welcome to Episode 188 of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP)! This time around we are chatting with new friends of ours from the Annapolis Boat Shows the past two Octobers, Chris and Kell, who have a YouTube Channel called NowHere, which documents their travels aboard Drifter, a 37ft NautiCat Monohull around the Sea […]
Welcome to Episode 187 of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP) where we have an awesomely fun conversation with Andrew Hesketh of The Ocean Cruisers Podcast and The Odyssey Sailing Festival while hanging out at the Podcasters Booth at the Annapolis Sailboat Show. Andy is a high energy, ambitious sailor who lives aboard with […]
Welcome to this episode of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP) brought to you by The Escape Pods Dot Com! This time around we catch up with Lian and Brioni from Sailing Red Seas YouTube Sailing Channel, winners of last years Best Emerging Sailing Channel at the International Cruisers Awards. It was a super […]
Welcome to The Shooting the Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP) Episode 185, which is our 2024 Annapolis Sailboat Show extravaganza! The boat show was a blur of runnin and gunnin, hanging out, doing interviews, a party or two, meetups, and all sorts of fun sailing related stuff. This Episode will be a series of shorter interviews […]
Welcome to this episode of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP) which is a Cross Podcast with Bela Musits from the Sailing the East Coast Of the USA podcast whereby we interview a fan of both of our podcasts, Gene Martel, who started sailing recently after getting interested a few years back. He searched […]
Welcome to episode 183 of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP). This episode we are talking Upper Chesapeake Sailing with Facebook group founder Bryant Gorrell, and we chat about his upcoming Upper Chesapeake Boat Show and Tell, being held on the weekend of October 4-6 at Lighthouse Point Marina in Baltimore. It is a […]
Welcome to this episode of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP) with our guest, Sailor, Olympian, America’s Cup winning team member, and founder of PredictWind, Jon Bilger! With the Olympics fresh on our minds and weather creeping into our daily lives with Tropical Systems in our news feeds, it is a great time to […]
This episode we have a grand old chat with Author and Sailor Richard J. King, whose new book “Sailing Alone: A Surprising History of Isolation and Survival at Sea,” which has recently been released. The book is a mix of his personal story of voyaging across the Atlantic by himself, aboard a Pearson Triton 28 […]
Welcome to The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP) Ep, 180, a porch chat with Mahlon and Linda Stauffer, who have been cruising the ICW to Florida and the Bahamas, from the Chesapeake Bay, for the past 5 seasons, aboard their Island Packet 35 “Just Ducky.” Having met them years ago on a Hot night […]
Welcome to episode 179 of the Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast with our guest Olympic Sailor Lara Dallman-Weiss who is representing the US Sailing Team in the 470 class with sailing partner Stuart McNay. I was honored to be considered to interview Lara on our little Sailing Podcast. I must say I had a little […]
Welcome to this episode of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP) in which we spend a rainy Saturday in Annapolis at Bacon Sails with Stevie Reeves, in his podcast studio, with alcohol, and Captain Boomies and the Bear crash the Party. This is part two of what ended up being almost a three hour […]
Welcome to this episode of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP) in which we spend a rainy Saturday in Annapolis at Bacon Sails with Stevie Reeves, in his podcast studio, with alcohol, and Captain Boomies and the Bear crash the Party. This is part one of what ended up being almost a three hour […]
Welcome to Episode 176 of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP)! This episode we chat with Photographer and Portrait Artist Kristin Rutkowski about her Chesapeake Bay Based project called Her Helm. The Her Helm project got started during the Summer of Covid, and culminated last year with the release of the book, Her Helm […]
This episode, representing our 10th Anniversary of the start of the Podcast, we sit down and chat with Josh Davidson of Sailboatparts Dot Com on the Interwebs and Anchors and Oars, a Nautical gift shop and Sailboat parts outlet physically located on the Eastern Shore of the Bay, in Graysonville, MD. Josh had sort of […]
Welcome to Episode 174 of The Shooting the Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP) with our guest, Annapolis based Sail Racer John Schafer, who with a bunch of military buddies started ministryofsailing.com and also runs a Sailing Rescue Swimmer training program for offshore sailors. When you sit down to watch a big time sailing race on the […]
Welcome to this episode of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP), which is part 2 of our 2023 Annapolis Sailboat Show Wrap up. In this episode we have 6 interviews with vendors and friends at the Sailboat show. The interviews and time stamps are as follows Marcus Asante and Alex Caslow from Redbeard Sailing […]
Welcome to Episode 172 of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP) whereby we attend the 2023 edition of the Annapolis Sailboat Show, hang out with friends, old and new, check out some great vendors, look at a boat or two, and be as much social butterfly’s as we can muster. Three Days, Two parties, […]
Welcome to this episode of the Shooting the Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP) featuring a cross podcast with Bela Musits of the Sailing and Cruising the East Coast of the USA Sailing Podcast. I’ve listened to many of his podcasts over the years, and we have had many of the same guests on from time to […]
Welcome to Episode #170 of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP) with our guest Photographer Walter Dorsett. I first came across Walter on Facebook many moons ago, back in 2015 in fact, as he got his start in taking a career in Photography seriously. It so happens that some of the photographs that he […]
Welcome to Episode 169 of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP) from The Escape Pods dot Com. Today we have a great chat with Catherine Lawson. She is a liveaboard cruising sailor currently in Indonesia aboard S/V Wild One with her family and they have published a very cool cookbook called The Hunter and […]
Matt Rutherford and the crew of SR/V Marie Tharp are headed back to the Arctic for another season of important research. We were fortunate enough to hang out with Matt at the Ocean Research Project World Headquarters in Eastport two days before they weighed anchor and left for the voyage. We talk about the finishing […]
So we had a little mishap at the Annapolis Spring Sailboat Boat Show. My recorder went for a swim in the UGO Wear waterproof bag Dunk Tank as I was finishing up an interview with them. It worked, for the next two minutes…….. Then stopped working. It faked me out as I did two more […]
Back in March I had the opportunity to attend a screening of Hell or High Seas, a sailing documentary detailing the mission of a couple of sailors to round Cape Horn in the name of Suicide Prevention Awareness, mostly among Veterans and First Responders. Former Navy Rescue Swimmer, Taylor Grieger had gotten out of the […]
This episode we chat with Singer/Songwriter/Sailor Shay love, who has released a new single called Spring Rain, hopes to release an EP over the summer as her and her husband cruise the islands, and wants to end up in NYC in the offseason, playing gigs as she goes along. See her Linktree here. We spoke […]
Greetings Sailors! This episode we catch up with Ocean Racer Peter Gibbons Neff, who is preparing to race the Mini Transat this coming September! The Race is a solo, two leg race from France to Guadalupe on 21ft One Design sailboats, and promises each sailor a proper ocean racing challenge. We spoke with Peter two […]
Welcome to this episode of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP) with our esteemed guest Lin Pardey back on the podcast to talk about her new seminar called Storytelling for Sailors, available to stream or via a USB stick at thesailingchannel.tv. We talk about the cruising she has been doing since we last spoke […]
Welcome back to the Podcast for the second part of the 2022 Annapolis Boat Shows Extravaganza, featuring 7 more fun interviews from the Sailboat Show, including the much Hyped “Hallway Hustle” with Captain Boomies, Bradford Rogers and Capt. Pauly, as spoken about on Capt. Pauly’s “All Things Boating” podcast back in November. This time around […]
Welcome to Boat show Season in the greater Chesapeake Bay and Annapolis area! Well, ok, it was back in October, and today is Thanksgiving, so sorry for the delay, I’m doing my best over here trying to wrangle all the Stuff! This episode, number 161, will be 7 interviews, two from the Power Boat Show, […]
This Episode is part 2 of our conversation with Dan and Marlene Reasoner who sailed their 42ft sailboat around the world via the Panama Canal, Alaska, Hawaii, French Polynesia, La Reunion, South Africa, Namibia, St. Helena, Brazil, and the Caribbean, all in less than 3 years, during the pandemic. They posted a blog along the […]
On this episode of the Shooting the Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP) we have the first part of a great chat with Dan and Marlene Reasoner of Sailing Trance, an Island Packet 42 aboard which they have recently completed a circumnavigation of the world. They blogged the entire journey over at Sailing Trance Dot Com. After […]
Amanda and Darren Seltzer, formerly of Sailing Panda on the YouTubes, are now proud new owners of an Adventure Charter Business called Outer Passage and a performance Multi-Hull Neel 45 Trimaran, and they are looking for new guests to come along for the ride! The last time we spoke with them, they were holed up […]
Greetings! Welcome to Episode 157 of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP) where we do some late night Porchsettin at Hances Point Yacht Club with our buddy and frequent, now annual, guest, Luke Wager. We talk about many things, but mainly his Delivery trip onboard a clients newly purchased Tayana 32 Pilothouse from Florida […]
Welcome to Episode 156 of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP) with Author, Sailor, Adventurer Stephen Ladd, whose new book, The Five Year Voyage, Exploring Latin American Coasts and Rivers has been released and is available for Purchase at Amazon. This book retells the story of a small boat voyage thru the Caribbean, Central […]
Welcome to the newest episode of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP) number 155. This time we come to you from the mooring field in Annapolis harbor and revisit our trip to the Spring Annapolis Sailboat Show which we attended back in Annapolis. The Spring show is about a quarter of the size of […]
Greetings Podcast Fans! This episode of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP) we chat with Author and Storyteller Nelson Simon about his book “Soul of the Hurricane, The Perfect Storm and an Accidental Sailor.” Nelson isn’t a sailor as you would imagine a survivor of a failed Sailboat Delivery during the beginnings of The […]
Welcome to this episode of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP). This time around we are speaking to Capt. Ritche and Capt. Kevin Derr from Sail Cocoa Beach, a daysailing charter operation on the Space Coast of Florida. Listeners should be familiar with Capt. Kevin Derr. He has been a frequent guest and friend […]
Greetings Sailing Podcast Fans! This time around we get to talk all things Hard Water Sailing related! What is Hard Water Sailing you ask? Ice Boating! I’ve been intrigued by Ice Boating ever since I took a quick, scary ride on one back in 2015. I’ve always wanted to know more about it. Now, back […]
Greetings Podcast Fans, Welcome to another great episode of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP) from The Escape Pods Dot Com. This episode we have a fun chat and hang with Captain Boomies, otherwise known as Captain Kate! She’s a Bona Fide Captain who came up through the ranks in the super yacht scene […]
Greetings Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP) listeners! This is Episode 150, a Huge Milestone for yours truly. I never thought I’d make it to a hundred episodes, much less 150. Today we will have a few interviews that I did while visiting and enjoying the Sultana Downrigging and Bluegrass Festival in Chestertown Maryland back […]
Ahoy Sailors! This episode we get to sit down with a recent Sail Libra Voyager Dan Nytes from Wisconsin, who tells us all about his small boat sailing experience on lakes in the Mid West, and his most recent adventures aboard Skipper Ryan Rayfields’s 60 foot, Bill Tripp designed, Libra. Dan originally signed up for […]
Welcome to the second part of the 2021 Annapolis Sailboat Show Wrap Up! Play or Download the Episode below! In this episode we catch up with Marissa and Chris Neely from Sailing Avocet, a well known cruising couple from the west coast who have a great blog and YouTube presence. Then we talk to Cody […]
Greetings Sailing Podcast fans! This episode is part one of two for our 2021 Annapolis Sailboat Show coverage, featuring a long and windy intro and a few interviews from the show. The Breakdown is as follows. Introduction – 1:00 John Herlig from Seabird Sailing Podcast – 39:39 John Herlig, representing The Boat Galley – 49:24 […]
Greetings Podcast Fans! This episode we catch up with former guest and friend of the show Marcus Asante. He’s a Baltimore area sailor, History Buff, Community Leader, and Founder of the Universal Sailing Club. Now working with Red Beard Sailing, Marcus is pairing his passions and expertise in Paddling and Sailing with his love of […]
Welcome to episode 145 of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP) with our world traveling guests, Dave and Amy Alton from the Sailing Blog and YouTube Channel Out Chasing Stars! Back in 2014 they bought a Fountaine Pajot Helia 44 Catamaran named Starry Horizons, and headed off into parts unknown with the goal of […]
Welcome to episode 144 of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP) featuring our guest Luke Wager. Luke has been a guest on the show many times before. Most recently was last summers 2020 cruise up the Eastern Seaboard, with stops in Newport and Block Island. This year, 2021, we recap the cruise they took […]
Greetings Sailing Podcast Fans. This Episode was a fun one to produce and a great time IRL. I had the pleasure of catching up with former guest Capt. Ryan Rayfield aboard the spectacular Sailing Vessel Libra, a 60ft Bill Tripp designed Ketch while they were on a stopover in Baltimore at Anchorage Marina in the […]
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