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The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast
Author: Jeffrey S. Wettig
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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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Welcome to episode 196 of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP) where we attend the Boaters Boat Show at Lighthouse Point Marina in Baltimore, MD. I talked to 6 crew of various boats that were there. I would have probably spoken to more, but the rain started and then it was Happy Hour, and […]
In this episode, #195 of the Shooting the Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP), we talk again with Thad Van Gilder about his new business, Tuckahoe Traditional Watercraft, LLC, which will be mostly a Bronze Boat Hardware business, with distribution through Anchors and Oars in Grasonville, MD. We talked with Thad about all things sailing back in […]
Welcome to this episode of The Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast (STBSP), our guest is friend, supporter, and Patron of our podcast, Sailor Jack Andrys. I first heard Jack when he was on The Sailing in the Mediterranean and beyond podcast with Franz way back when. Jack and another friend of the show, Neil Fletcher, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 a great time to […]
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 Triton 28 […]
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 […]
Welcome to episode 179 of the Shooting The Breeze Sailing Podcast with our guest Olympic Sailor Lara Dallman-Weiss who is representing the US Sailing Team in the 470 class with sailing partner Stuart McNay. I was honored to be considered to interview Lara on our little Sailing Podcast. I must say I had a little […]
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 […]
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 […]