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 […]

This episode is a chat with Brady Stroh of the Chesapeake Heritage Conservancy about the current state of the ongoing rehabilitation of the Skipjack Martha Lewis. We visited with Brady and the Martha Lewis back in 2016 as they were in the middle of rehab work in Havre De’Grace, MD. Since then the work on […]

Welcome to Episode 141 of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP) with our guest Capt. Jim Charles, of S/V Pegasus, my old Paceship PY26. Jim and Jessie are old friends, Jim and I went to High School together and have been friends all along. He and Jessie bought my old boat three years ago, […]

Hey folks, welcome to another episode of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP)! Sorry for no episode in April, but today we are back and chatting with our guests, Nixie Marie and Cameron Van Peebles of Sailing Vessel Ella, currently cruising in Mexico. They bought a 44ft Pearson Countess, fixed her up, and set […]

Greetings Podcast Fans! This episode of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP) we are chatting with Hances Point Sailor Tim Colgan. I met Tim a few years back after hearing a tale of woe about one of our club members getting his boat plowed into by a large Beneteau down the Bay. Lo and […]

Greetings Sailors! This episode of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP), #138, we chat with Chesapeake Bay Sailor, Round the Americas solo, non stop sailor, and Ocean Research Project founder Matt Rutherford Matt has been on this podcast many, many times before, almost annually, and we also simulcast it on both of our podcasts […]

Greetings Sailors! This episode of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP), #137, we chat with Chesapeake Bay Sailor, Charter Captain, and Marine Consultant Paul Foer. Super Fan Ron suggested that I talk with Capt. Paul, back in 2019, and now in 2021 I finally got around to contacting him and having a great chat […]