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 […]