Welcome to this episode of the Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP) episdode number 193, where we breakdown the breakdown, and debrief an incident that happened earlier this spring in the lower Chesapeake Bay when a mid 70’s era Allied Princess was dismasted.

I wrangled up a couple of other Sailing Podcasters, our friends Scott Titus of the Splice the Main Brace Podcast, and Chris Smith of the Bonnie Boat Podcast, who were out with the owner of the boat on a find afternoon regatta back in May, when something popped, and next thing you know, the top of the mast was swinging freely from it’s rigging.

We discuss how they got into that situation, some of the safety concerns that come up when you find yourself in a situation such as that, what kind of stress you encounter, and the steps you take to protect your crew and vessel, and how they were able to get the boat docked and taken care of in fairly short order.

We also speak about Scotts involvement in a new Sailing Beyond Cancer chapter located in the Gloucester, Virginia area. Someday we will do an entire episode surrounding that charity and all the good work they do up and down the east coast.

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Break music, “Wild Winds of Misfortune” by Leo Disanto of The Vinegar Creek Constituency, and “The Wild Rover” as performed by The Ogham Stones
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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 interviews with my recorder space mics, that I pic up the interference. I think its pretty specific to the Annapolis area. I thought about not releasing this material, but decided the work around in post was not fantastic, but good enough for interested folks to get through.

NOT charging for this one, for all of you patrons out there, but I hope you all can get through it.

First we Talk with Gareth from East Coast Sailboats who are US dealers for the BirdyFish foiling sailboat. It looks like a scaled down version of the IMOCA 60’s that run the round the world races. It is a crazy fast small boat that takes the sport into the next generation.

We then talk to Jim, from the Lightning Fleet based at Severn Sailing Association in Annapolis, all about the one design fleet that competes all around the world. The lightning is one of the only small boats I’ve actually ever sailed on, back when I was invited to the Susquehanna Yacht Club.

Next we speak to Joe from Jetty Clothing. I found Jetty at the boat show a couple of years ago, with some great shirts made with Oystex, a fiber blend of pulverized Oyster Shells and recycled polyester. They have an interesting selection of clothing and accessories for you to check out.

Finally we have a chat with Ed Pickering, the Broker with the Beard of S&J Yachts, and co-host of the Funny Boat Podcast. He went on some adventures recently attending the Odyssey Sailing Festival in the BVI, as well as the Chasing Bubbles Regatta.

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Break music, “Wild Winds of Misfortune” by Leo Disanto of The Vinegar Creek Constituency, and “The Wild Rover” as performed by The Ogham Stones
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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 they’ve upgraded to a 36ft boat, we are introduced to Ray and Kerry and talk to them about upgrading to a 38ft Catalina, we also get updates from Luke and Julie! The band is the Sin City Band, and the bagpiper is named Duncan Moore. We have speeches from HPYC members Chris, Tom, and Cherie. At the end of the podcast we play an Earth Day tribute from the RJ Phillips Band, “Listen to the Birds.” We also pay tribute to passed members Bob Stringfellow, Jack Chun, and former podcast guest Dr. Jim Bailey.

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Break music, “Wild Winds of Misfortune” by Leo Disanto of The Vinegar Creek Constituency, and “The Wild Rover” as performed by The Ogham Stones
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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 is sort of a debrief of the situation. The Dadmiral, her father Tom, has some great stories about other situations he has found himself in over his long sailing career.

I was going to release a co-podcast with Scott from the Splice the Main Brace podcast about a new chapter of Sail Beyond Cancer opening up in Gloucester, VA, for our March episode, but it did not pan out as we had hoped, so I went to plan B, find someone that loves to talk about boating and has massive FOMO. Professional boat mover, Captain Boomies.

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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 skills running into bridges and shallow water. After college he spent his summers sailing the Delmarva bays and rivers on a variety of boats. Later on he started working on boats and delivering boats on the side.

He is a wealth of knowledge about all things Good Old Boat, and he tells us all about his adventures in this conversation.

He is a staple over at the Facebook group, doing zoom calls, and helping others with sailing questions. You will probably find him hanging around Rock Hall, MD on his Cape Dory 36 with his wife, or down at Anchors and Oars, checking out the Good Old Boat parts!

Someday, we will hang out onboard in person, or meet up out on the water. There may even be a book in his future!

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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 of Cortez and west coast of Mexico.

We caught up with them at the Podcast booth set up by the Boat show this year and chatted all about how they got into cruising, buying a boat, and setting off on adventures on the West Coast of the US and Mexico. This was, of course, a day after all our adventures in and around Annapolis and the International Cruisers Awards and the now infamous after party.

Chris and Kell are great folks to hang out with and follow along with and I really enjoy watching their channel. We met up later that evening after the show and were able to introduce them to some of the Hances Point Crew, who have been following along with their adventures.

Having left Drifter on the hard in Mexico, they have bought a used RV and have been traveling the country, with videos just now coming out about this adventure on land. They are returning the boat in the summer, and will continue sailing, possibly making it into the Caribbean via the canal.

I particularly find their journey intriguing since Kell works a full time remote job as they cruise, and has to balance out working and traveling at the same time, as Chris keeps the boat and deals with most of the provisioning and planning, all while managing a YouTube Channel.

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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 his family, currently sailing around Greece, and hosts podcasts, regatta’s, does red carpet interviews for the International Cruisers Awards, and loves Dunkin Coffee! (We got him some this time around! )

We met him last year at the Annapolis Sailboat Show when we ducked into the Young Cruisers tent and he offered us a beer. We were able to catch him again this year, and were able to hang out with him throughout the show, and got the chance to chat for the podcast.

He’s been doing the podcast since the pandemic and started the Odyssey Sailing Festival last year and has run 2 events so far and a third is scheduled in the BVI in April. You can find out more at www.theoceancruisers.com.

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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 fun chat we had at the podcasting booth provided by the @annapolisboatshow. They are a high energy couple who sold everything just prior to the pandemic lock downs, leaving them stranded in a home with nothing in it, waiting to catch a plane to the Caribbean to see a boat that may not exist. Kind of a sketch situation, if you ask me. But that did not deter them, getting on a plane as soon as was possible and chasing after the dream of sailing towards the horizon.

Now, 4 years later, they have been exploring the remote islands of French Polynesia, with loose plans to continue where ever the winds take them. They recently have been upgrading the Highfield Dinghy they won as winners of the Best Emerging YouTube Sailing Channel at the International Cruisers awards last year, and have posted up some video of the YouTube Channel seminar held during the boat show.

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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 done on the fly with vendors and sailing friends.

I did run into a few that I did not interview that I want to highlight here in the show notes. One being The Boat Galley, with our friends John Herlig and Carolyn Shearlock. They have the best cruising tools and guides around.

I was able to speak to Lin Pardey for hot second and buy her new book “Cape Horn and Beyond”, which I was able to get autographed. It is so awesome seeing her out there doing it, and she got some recognition from the International Cruisers Awards! Check out the Livestream, you’ll see her and others win awards, and you might catch someone you know being interviewed on the Red Carpet!

The Time Stamps for this episode are as follows:

Darren and Amanda Seltzer from Outer Passages – 30:52

Roam Devices – 37:47

Portland Pudgy – 40:00

Sailors for the Sea – 51:48

Sea People – 58:12

Crab – 1:03:32

Peter Gibbons Neff – 1:10:41

Sail Beyond Cancer – 1:17:51

Chasing Bubbles/Rust – 1:20:45

Sailing Avocet – 1:27:13

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Intro Music by yours truly and Greg Young, of The Incoherents, a band I managed in college. The song is called Never Tell and is available via email. Find the other songs they did at The Incoherents. The Lean Years Volume 2, on Itunes.

Break music, “Wild Winds of Misfortune” by Leo Disanto of The Vinegar Creek Constituency, and “The Wild Rover” as performed by The Ogham Stones
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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 around for Sailing Podcasts, and found ours, among a few others. I met Gene back a few years ago at the Annapolis Sailboat Show, and he reached out to Bela as well, asking about what sort of boat he should look into buying.

Now a few years gone by, Gene has a year of sailing under his belt and he wants to tell his story so it might inspire others to learn how to sail and make it happen. He reached out to both Bela and I and we decided to do a group chat a release it across both of our platforms.

Also in this episode I talk a bit about the Upper Chesapeake Bay Sailing Group on Facebook meetup we had last weekend, a sail in event at Lighthouse Point Marina in Baltimore called the Boat Show and Tell. It was a fun event, and planning has already begun for next years event.

And I also talk about the upcoming Annapolis Sailboat show, my slots at the podcast booth, and other plans for the show.

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Intro Music by yours truly and Greg Young, of The Incoherents, a band I managed in college. The song is called Never Tell and is available via email. Find the other songs they did at The Incoherents. The Lean Years Volume 2, on Itunes.

Break music, “Wild Winds of Misfortune” by Leo Disanto of The Vinegar Creek Constituency, and “The Wild Rover” as performed by The Ogham Stones
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