L to R Captain Boomies, The Bear, Jeffrey Wettig, Stevie Reeves. 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 tour. If you want to watch it on Stevie’s YouTube Channel, the link is here. It gets kinda crazy, but it was a fun time and there’s some good stuff in here. Check out Unfurled with Stevie Reeves on Insta and Youtube. This is Part ..read more

L to R Captain Boomies, The Bear, Jeffrey Wettig, Stevie Reeves. 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 tour. It gets kinda crazy, but it was a fun time and there’s some good stuff in here. Check out Unfurled with Stevie Reeves on Insta and Youtube. This is also a terrible time in the Chesapeake Bay/Baltimore area as the day before ..read more

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 Summer of Covid, and culminated last year with the release of the book, Her Helm Chesapeake Bay. In it, Rutkowski, showcases 51 women that make their own way on the waters of the Chesapeake Bay as captains of their own ships, whether licensed or not, large and small, sail or power. The book also contains a ..read more

Josh Davidson from 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 located on the Eastern Shore of the Bay, in Graysonville, MD. Josh had sort of become a Mythic or Legendary character in my online sailingverse. I started hearing about this great reuse-it shop that had almost anything you ever needed to outfit your good old boat. I started seeing photo’s of his Barn covered in Halyards, P ..read more

Annapolis Sailor John Schafer from Ministry of Sailing and the Sailing Rescue Swimmer training program. 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 interwebs or on television, say The Americas Cup, The Ocean Race, SailGP, the Caribbean 600, or Sydney/Hobart, you don’t generally first think of the Annapolis ar ..read more

The sticker I was handing out at the Annapolis Sailboat Show This past October. 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 – 16:37 Brian from Sperry Boat Shoes – 25:24 Alex from Tremate Boat Maintenance App – 30:28 Craig from Dakota Lithium Batteries – 33:59 Chris Kreitlein, Author of Simple Celestial at the Celestaire Boo ..read more

This was my mental state after the whirlwind of the 2023 Annapolis Sailboat Show. It seems it was more about Sailors and sailing than it was actual sailboats! 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, some interesting vendors, a new tradition beginning, some great weather, some crappy weather, and a few boats to boot. Nora joins me f ..read more

Photographer Walter Dorsett Showing off his new book! 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 got started with were taken in and around my home sailing grounds of the North East River in Maryland, in fact some of them were from my boat club Hances Point Yacht Club. Many of his photographs are great Landscapes and Nature photog ..read more

Catherine Lawson, Sailor and Author of The Hunter and The Gatherer 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 The Gatherer, Cooking and Provisioning for Sailing Adventures. You can find it at the link above, or over at her website https://www.wildtravelstory.com/ along with her blog, other books, magazine articles, and other ..read more

Marie Tharp in the Arctic. 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. Matt Rutherford We talk about the finishing of the boat last year and the inaugural voyage to the Arctic, after many weeks of delays and problem solving, the new Youtube videos being released currently, and what is in store for this years mission. You can listen to Episode 168 of th ..read more