The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast

By Jeffrey S. Wettig

What's The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast about?

Blue Collar Sailing Podcast about normal people and Chesapeake Bay Sailors enjoying time on the water. Cruising, voyaging, sailing, racing, DIY projects, yacht club, boat club, fireside chats, music, a veritable blend of sailing entertainment with your host Jeffrey S. Wettig.

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The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast episodes:

04.16.2024
STBSP, Ep. 178, Rummin and Beerin with Stevie Reeves, Capt. Boomies, and the Bear, Part 2
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...
03.30.2024
STBSP, Ep, 177, Pod Party with Unfurled W/Stevie Reeves, Capt. Boomies, and the Bear, Pt 1.
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...
02.20.2024
STBSP, Ep, 176, Her Helm Photographer Kristin Rutkowski
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...
01.20.2024
STBSP, Ep, 175, Josh Davidson of Anchors and Oars
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...
12.16.2023
STBSP, Ep, 174, A fun chat with John Schafer of Ministry of Sailing
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...
11.18.2023
STBSP, Ep, 173, 2023 Annapolis Sailboat Show Wrap Up, Part 2
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...
10.28.2023
STBSP, Ep, 172, 2023 Annapolis Sailboat Show Experience!
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...
09.15.2023
STBSP, Ep, 171, Cross Podcast with Bela Musits from Sailing and Cruising the East Coast of the USA sailing podcast.
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...
08.15.2023
STBSP, Ep, 170, Photographer Walter Dorsett
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...
07.18.2023
STBSP, Ep, 169, Catherine Lawson, Sailor and Author of the Hunter and The Gatherer Cookbook.
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...
06.20.2023
STBSP, Ep, 168, Back to the Arctic with Matt Rutherford.
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...
05.26.2023
STBSP, EP, 167, Spring Boat Show Wrap Party with Captain Boomies.
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...
04.22.2023
STBSP, Ep. 166, Hell Or High Seas with Stephen O’Shea.
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...
03.11.2023
STBSP, Ep, 165, Singer/Songwriter/Sailor Shay Love
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...
02.15.2023
STBSP, Ep, 164, Mini Transat with Peter Gibbons Neff
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...
01.14.2023
STBSP, Ep, 163, Storytelling for Sailors with Lin Pardey.
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...
12.21.2022
STBSP, Ep, 162, 2022 Annapolis Sailboat Show Wrap Up, Part 2
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...
11.24.2022
STBSP, Ep. 161, 2022 Annapolis Boat Shows Wrap Up.
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...
10.20.2022
STBSP ep, 160, Sailing Trance Part 2.
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,...
10.07.2022
STBSP, Ep, 159, Sailing Trance, Pt.1
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...
09.16.2022
STBSP, Ep, 158, Amanda and Darren from Outer Passage!
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...
08.25.2022
STBSP Ep, 157, HPYC Porchsettin 2022, Jeff, Nora, and Luke
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,...
07.24.2022
STBSP, Ep, 156, Small Boat Sailing and Adventuring in South America with Stephen Ladd.
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...
06.12.2022
STBSP Ep, 155, Spring Boat Show and Summer Cruising
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...
05.16.2022
STBSP Ep, 154, Chat with Author Nelson Simon about his book, “Soul of the Hurricane, The Perfect Storm and an Accidental Sailor.”
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...
04.27.2022
STBSP Ep, 153, Sail Cocoa Beach chat with Capt. Ritche and Capt. Kevin Derr.
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...
03.13.2022
STBSP Ep, 152, Hard Water Sailing with Tim McCormick
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...
02.20.2022
STBSP, Ep 151, Hanging out with Captain Boomies!
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...
01.29.2022
STBSP, EP. 150! Echo Hill Outdoor School, Chesapeake Heartland Org, and MUSIC!
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...
12.19.2021
STBSP Ep, 149, Dan Nytes, a Sail Libra Voyager tells his tales of the sea!
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...
11.20.2021
STBSP Ep. 148, 2021 Annapolis Sailboat Show Wrap Up, Pt. 2
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...
10.31.2021
STBSP Ep, 147, 2021 Annapolis Sailboat Show, Part 1.
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...
10.05.2021
STBSP Ep. 146 Marcus Asante and Red Beard Sailing
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,...
08.28.2021
STBSP Ep. 145 Dave and Amy of Out Chasing Stars
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...
08.10.2021
STBSP, EP. 144, Luke Wager 2021 Cruise to Maine and Back-Recap
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...
07.26.2021
STBSP Ep 143, Visiting S/V Libra and Capt. Ryan Rayfield.
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...
06.29.2021
STBSP Ep. 142 Catch Up with Brady Stroh and the Skipjack Martha Lewis
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...
06.12.2021
STBSP, EP, 141, Jim Charles and S/V Pegasus upgrades
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...
05.13.2021
STBSP, ep, 140 Nixie Marie and Cameron from S/V Ella and Claryti.com
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,...
03.30.2021
STBSP Ep, 139, HPYC sailor Tim Colgan
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...
03.02.2021
STBSP Ep, 138, 2021 Pod Simulcast with Matt Rutherford
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,...
02.13.2021
STBSP, Ep, 137 Marine Consultant and Sailor Paul Foer
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...
01.28.2021
STBSP, Ep. 136 Upper Chesapeake Sailing with Bryant Gorrell
Welcome to this episode of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP) with our guest Bryant Gorrell who founded the Upper Chesapeake Sailing group over on Facebook. Bryant grew up in the area that I keep my boat, along the...
12.23.2020
STBSP, Ep, 134, Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay Author Dr. Jamie L. H. Goodall
Arrrrrggghhhh! Ahoy my matey’s, All hands Hoay and all Ye Landlubbers, Old Salts, and Sea Dogs, come aboard for our Chat with “Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay” author Dr. Jamie L. H. Goodall (@L_Historienne on twitter). It is a wonderful...
12.04.2020
STBSP Ep, 133 The Chesapeake Experience with Rob Deane
Hey Folks! We are back with Rob Deane from Chesapeake Experience, a new non profit sailing center on the Chesapeake Bay! We spoke with Rob a few years ago when he was with the Baltimore County Sailing Center. Things got...
11.13.2020
STBSP Ep, 132, Sail away with Sailing Panda
10.27.2020
STBSP, EP 131, Sing some songs with Janie Meneely!
Greetings Sailors and Podcast Fans! This episode is a special one! With no Annapolis Sailboat Show to enjoy this year, lets take some time to celebrate The Chesapeake Bay with Annapolis native Janie Meneely, who has a long history of...
09.30.2020
STBSP, Ep 130, Fall Cruise and Dock Party
On this episode of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP) we talk about recent fall cruises, have a Dock Party, and chat with Jim who bought Pegasus from me a few years back, and Nick and Tracey, who are...
09.04.2020
STBSP Ep 129, Chat with Marco Coda of Carpe Diem Sailing.
Greetings sailing podcast fans! This episode of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast, we chat with Marco Coda of Carpe Diem Sailing out of Vancouver, BC. He is promoting a new video series he is developing regarding things like Docking...
08.18.2020
STBSP, EP, 128, Chat with "John Sparrow" about Cliff Kyle and other things.
Greetings Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP) fans! This time around we speak to “John Sparrow,” our resident Chesapeake Bay Sailor/Broker/Social Media Sailing guy. I’ve wanted to chat with him for a long time, after seeing his YouTube videos (Hold...

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The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast episodes:

STBSP, Ep. 178, Rummin and Beerin with Stevie Reeves, Capt. Boomies, and the Bear, Part 2

STBSP, Ep, 177, Pod Party with Unfurled W/Stevie Reeves, Capt. Boomies, and the Bear, Pt 1.

STBSP, Ep, 176, Her Helm Photographer Kristin Rutkowski

STBSP, Ep, 175, Josh Davidson of Anchors and Oars

STBSP, Ep, 174, A fun chat with John Schafer of Ministry of Sailing

STBSP, Ep, 173, 2023 Annapolis Sailboat Show Wrap Up, Part 2

STBSP, Ep, 172, 2023 Annapolis Sailboat Show Experience!

STBSP, Ep, 171, Cross Podcast with Bela Musits from Sailing and Cruising the East Coast of the USA sailing podcast.

STBSP, Ep, 170, Photographer Walter Dorsett

STBSP, Ep, 169, Catherine Lawson, Sailor and Author of the Hunter and The Gatherer Cookbook.

STBSP, Ep, 168, Back to the Arctic with Matt Rutherford.

STBSP, EP, 167, Spring Boat Show Wrap Party with Captain Boomies.

STBSP, Ep. 166, Hell Or High Seas with Stephen O’Shea.

STBSP, Ep, 165, Singer/Songwriter/Sailor Shay Love

STBSP, Ep, 164, Mini Transat with Peter Gibbons Neff

STBSP, Ep, 163, Storytelling for Sailors with Lin Pardey.

STBSP, Ep, 162, 2022 Annapolis Sailboat Show Wrap Up, Part 2

STBSP, Ep. 161, 2022 Annapolis Boat Shows Wrap Up.

STBSP ep, 160, Sailing Trance Part 2.

STBSP, Ep, 159, Sailing Trance, Pt.1

STBSP, Ep, 158, Amanda and Darren from Outer Passage!

STBSP Ep, 157, HPYC Porchsettin 2022, Jeff, Nora, and Luke

STBSP, Ep, 156, Small Boat Sailing and Adventuring in South America with Stephen Ladd.

STBSP Ep, 155, Spring Boat Show and Summer Cruising

STBSP Ep, 154, Chat with Author Nelson Simon about his book, “Soul of the Hurricane, The Perfect Storm and an Accidental Sailor.”

STBSP Ep, 153, Sail Cocoa Beach chat with Capt. Ritche and Capt. Kevin Derr.

STBSP Ep, 152, Hard Water Sailing with Tim McCormick

STBSP, Ep 151, Hanging out with Captain Boomies!

STBSP, EP. 150! Echo Hill Outdoor School, Chesapeake Heartland Org, and MUSIC!

STBSP Ep, 149, Dan Nytes, a Sail Libra Voyager tells his tales of the sea!

STBSP Ep. 148, 2021 Annapolis Sailboat Show Wrap Up, Pt. 2

STBSP Ep, 147, 2021 Annapolis Sailboat Show, Part 1.

STBSP Ep. 146 Marcus Asante and Red Beard Sailing

STBSP Ep. 145 Dave and Amy of Out Chasing Stars

STBSP, EP. 144, Luke Wager 2021 Cruise to Maine and Back-Recap

STBSP Ep 143, Visiting S/V Libra and Capt. Ryan Rayfield.

STBSP Ep. 142 Catch Up with Brady Stroh and the Skipjack Martha Lewis

STBSP, EP, 141, Jim Charles and S/V Pegasus upgrades

STBSP, ep, 140 Nixie Marie and Cameron from S/V Ella and Claryti.com

STBSP Ep, 139, HPYC sailor Tim Colgan

STBSP Ep, 138, 2021 Pod Simulcast with Matt Rutherford

STBSP, Ep, 137 Marine Consultant and Sailor Paul Foer

STBSP, Ep. 136 Upper Chesapeake Sailing with Bryant Gorrell

STBSP, Ep, 134, Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay Author Dr. Jamie L. H. Goodall

STBSP Ep, 133 The Chesapeake Experience with Rob Deane

STBSP Ep, 132, Sail away with Sailing Panda

STBSP, EP 131, Sing some songs with Janie Meneely!

STBSP, Ep 130, Fall Cruise and Dock Party

STBSP Ep 129, Chat with Marco Coda of Carpe Diem Sailing.

STBSP, EP, 128, Chat with "John Sparrow" about Cliff Kyle and other things.