Lifelong Sailor Thad Van Gilder 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…

Chris and Kell NowHere 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 …

Andy H. lives aboard in the Med. 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 wh…

Lian and Brioni from Sailing Red Seas at the Annapolis Sailboat Show! 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 Intern…

2024 Annapolis Sailboat Show 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 inter…

Sunfish sailing on the Lake. 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 arou…

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 boat show for the re…

Predict Wind founder, Sailor Jon Bilger 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 …

“Sailing Alone” Author and Sailor, Richard J. King 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…

Just Ducky under Sail 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 in the mooring field a…