Salty Podcast: Sailing Stories

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  He Bought a $1M Sailboat Before He Knew How to Sail ⛵ Salty Podcast #104 03.09.2026 1t 38min

  Send us Fan Mail Here’s the tighter version — about half the length, while keeping the SEO terms and the strongest parts of the story: Jack Yeager bought a million-dollar-plus sailboat before he knew how to sail, then spent the next five years turning that decision into an extraordinary sailing adventure. In Salty Podcast #104, Jack joins Cap’n Tinsley to tell how he went from a workaholic software entrepreneur to cruising thousands of miles aboard Phase 8, a Beneteau Oceanis Yacht 62. Jack...
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  Affordable Luxury Sailing ⛵ Real Impact in Grenada | Salty Podcast #103 28.08.2026 53min

  Send us Fan Mail Rich Whitlock returns to Salty Podcast with Adir, founder of the JustBE Foundation, to talk about a different kind of Caribbean adventure — **affordable luxury sailing with a purpose**. ⛵🌴 From their Jeanneau 51, **Calypso**, Rich and Adir are helping communities in Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique recover from Hurricane Beryl. Their projects include rebuilding a wellness center, supporting local organizations and creating **free, cruiser-friendly mooring balls** des...
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  Salty Podcast #102 ⛵ Cecilia Potts: Baja, Sailing & Island Packets 17.08.2026 1t 17min

  Send us Fan Mail If you’re an Island Packet owner, there’s a good chance you know my next guest. And if you’ve had any experience with her at all, I’d bet it was a good one. Joining me for her second appearance on The Salty Podcast is Cecilia Potts — sailor, adventurist, surveyor, and Island Packet enthusiast. Cecilia was first featured on Salty Podcast #3, where we mainly talked about her surveying work. But during that interview, she casually dropped some hints about the incredible sailing...
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  Know Before You Tow: When Help on the Water Becomes a Salvage Claim⛵Salty Podcast #101 07.08.2026 51min

  Send us Fan Mail 🎙️ Salty Podcast #101: Know Before You Tow When does accepting help on the water stop being a routine tow and become a salvage claim? In this episode, Cap’n Tinsley talks with maritime attorney and U.S. Coast Guard-licensed captain John Fulweiler about the surprisingly gray line between towing and salvage. John explains the three basic elements of a salvage claim—marine peril, voluntary assistance, and success—and why situations involving a disabled boat, dragging anc...
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  Salty Podcast #100 ⛵ Stories Sunken Ships Tell with Dr. James Delgado 30.07.2026 1t 10min

  Send us Fan Mail For the 100th episode of the Salty Podcast, Dr. James Delgado joins Cap’n Tinsley to explore what shipwrecks reveal about the people who built, sailed and sometimes died aboard them. James is a maritime archaeologist, historian, author and explorer whose five-decade career has included more than 100 shipwreck projects around the world. His investigations have included Titanic, USS Arizona, Alabama’s Clotilda, buried Gold Rush ships beneath downtown San Francisco and deep-sea ...
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  Salty Podcast #99 ⛵ Changing Lives through the Ocean! StreetWaves.org 23.07.2026 33min

  Send us Fan Mail A kid can live three to five miles from the beach and still never see the ocean. That fact hits hard, and it is where Maurice “Maui” Goodbeer starts. Maui is the founder and executive director of Street Waves, a South Florida nonprofit that has spent years teaching inner-city kids how to swim, surf, and build real skills on boats. His drive is personal: after his younger brother was murdered, he promised at the funeral he would do something direct for kids who are growing up ...
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  Go Small, Go Simple, Go Now ⛵ Lin Pardey | Sailing Legend, Circumnavigator, Author! Salty Podcast #98 17.07.2026 1t 19min

  Send us Fan Mail A 24-foot cruising boat with no engine sounds like a constraint until you hear what it unlocks. We sit down with Lynn, a sailor and author whose life at sea is built on small-boat cruising, practical offshore seamanship, and the kind of calm confidence that only comes from doing the work. From the first miles “westward” to the storms that proved their tactics, she explains why simplicity can be the fastest route to real freedom on the water. We talk about the turning p...
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  Unfiltered Sailboat Buying Advice with James Evenson, author of "Be The Captain" ⛵ Salty Podcast #97 03.06.2026 1t 10min

  Send us Fan Mail To buy James' book: https://bethecaptain.com/ A keel leak that grows the harder you sail is the kind of story that rewires how you think about “good boats.” We sit down with James from Sailing Zingaro, a longtime delivery captain and former Navy submariner with roughly 90,000 miles at sea, to talk about what holds up offshore and what quietly fails until it’s suddenly your emergency. We get into sailboat buying with real consequences: production boat grid construction, what ...
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  From Blackhawk Pilot to Island Packet 44 Sailor | SV Validated | Salty Podcast #96 22.05.2026 54min

  Send us Fan Mail The romantic version of sailing is easy to sell. The real version is what Suzy and Sput live every day aboard their 1992 Island Packet 44, SV Validated It, as they pause in Tortola in the British Virgin Islands and prepare to push south toward Grenada for hurricane season. They started in Washington, DC, met online, and turned a brand-new partnership into a full-time cruising plan with very real consequences: weather windows, expensive clear-in fees, and the relentless “thorn...
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  Growing Up at Sea: 12-Year-Old Sailor Atticus from @BoyMeetsOcean | Salty Podcast #95 04.05.2026 51min

  Send us Fan Mail Sorry for the music overlap of the audio at 34:40 til 34:57. I inadvertently failed to mute the b-roll video and noticed it after I uploaded it. It last 17 seconds but is a very good song so enjoy! A 12-year-old on night watch, clipped in, steering a 46-foot catamaran through real offshore conditions while his friends back home are doing homework on the couch. That’s Atticus, the voice behind Boy Meets Ocean, and he joins us from the Bahamas to explain what full-t...
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  Sailing to Luperon Dominican Republic Safely | Salty Podcast #94 01.05.2026 1t 7min

  Send us Fan Mail This is an update to Salty Podcast #91. The sea can be glassy at sunrise and still hand you a monster at 10:30 p.m. We’re calling in from two different corners of paradise and chaos as Bill and Catherine share a boots-on-deck update from their Bahamas to Dominican Republic crossing and their new home base in Luperon Harbor, one of the best-known hurricane holes in the Caribbean. We walk through what changed after leaving Georgetown: an engine overheating detour, a roug...
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  Sailing The Crooked Anchor | No Sailing Experience to Life in the Bahamas | Salty Podcast #93 25.04.2026 58min

  Send us Fan Mail They bought the dream with zero sailing experience, then paid for it with patience, sweat, and a willingness to live with less. I sit down with Captain Ken and Miss Kelly from The Crooked Anchor, liveaboards on a 1990 Gemini catamaran, to unpack how two Florida landlubbers sold the house, refit a fixer-upper boat, and turned “we could never do that” into seven years of cruising the Keys and the Bahamas. We get specific about what actually makes the liveaboard sailing lifesty...
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  Catching up with Sailing Jeep in Georgetown, Bahamas! | Salty Podcast #92 21.04.2026 24min

  Send us Fan Mail Georgetown, Exuma has a reputation among sailors and cruisers, but the real story is how it feels when you drop anchor and start meeting people. From Stocking Island, we sit down with Kurt Allmeyer of the 46-foot catamaran “Sailing Jeep” for a candid update on day-to-day life in Georgetown, why the anchorage can feel unusually safe, and how a tight cruising community changes everything. If you’re planning an Exumas sailing trip, this is the kind of on-the-water perspective yo...
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  Met on SAILOR DATING SITE to Cruising Full-Time | Salty Podcast #91 05.04.2026 56min

  Send us Fan Mail In Salty Podcast #91, I sit down with Bill and Katherine of Mi Salida Sailing in Black Point Settlement, Exumas, Bahamas. They share how they met on a dating site for sailors, bought an Island Packet 465, and made the leap into full-time cruising. We talk about their origin story, why they chose this boat, what it’s really like cruising full-time as a couple, and the balance between caution, experience, and learning as you go. Katherine brings decades of sailing experie...
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  Talking with Full-Time Liveaboards from Cruisers Beach in Big Majors, Exumas Bahamas | Salty Podcast #90 30.03.2026 37min

  Send us Fan Mail The Bahamas looks effortless on Instagram until you’re the one staring at a forecast that says 25 knots and realizing your entire plan depends on a weather window. From a sandy hangout at Big Majors Cay, we sit down with Roger and Kristen, liveaboards on their 1995 Island Packet 40 Shamala, to talk through the real decisions that shape a cruising day: when to stay put, who to trust for weather, and how to move south without turning a passage into a grind. Their path to full-...
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  Bahamas Update from Capt Tinsley aboard @SaltyAbandon! 24.03.2026

  Send us Fan Mail I haven't had a chance to do any interviews lately but I DO appreciate the feedback from the audio podcast followers as well as the social media followers...asking for more interviews! I should be in Georgetown by this weekend and there will be all kinds of sailors to interview there! I'm looking forward to it. In the meantime, please follow Salty Abandon on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Tiktok and see my clips of my journey. Thank you! Capt Tinsley Supp...
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  WIDOWED & SAILING: Sailing After Loss - Tinsley's Story | Salty Podcast #89 15.02.2026 58min

  Send us Fan Mail Salty Podcast Sailor Shirts: https://saltypodcast.myshopify.com The wind doesn’t just move a boat; it moves a life. Captain Tinsley sits down with her longtime friend Mark to chart the real story behind her voyages—from Atlanta freeways to the Gulf’s passes, from small-boat frustrations to bluewater confidence, and from a hurricane’s chaos to the quiet, stubborn act of healing after losing Salty Scotty. What unfolds is a clear-eyed look at seamanship and the inner weath...
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  Bahamas Weather Check… and UFOs Offshore?! (Sailing Jeep in Georgetown) | Salty Podcast #88 06.02.2026 1t 2min

  Send us Fan Mail Forty-knot gusts, nine-foot swell, and a mooring field packed with boats waiting out yet another front—welcome to a real-time snapshot of Georgetown, Exumas. We bring on Curt from Sailing Jeep, currently anchored in the thick of it, to share hard-earned lessons on reading models, picking safe anchorages for relentless north winds, and staying sane when the forecast keeps slipping. If you’re staging a Florida–Bahamas crossing or planning the Exumas, this is your field guide to...
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  Salty Podcast #87⛵When Sailing Turns Serious | Sailing the Oceanaire ⛵ 14.01.2026 59min

  Send us Fan Mail A quiet dinner at anchor turned into the kind of emergency every cruiser dreads. Within hours, pain escalated into a misdiagnosed crisis, a midnight dash to a small clinic, and a fight to secure an air ambulance before pilots timed out and the airport closed at dark. What followed was necrotizing pancreatitis, weeks in U.S. ICUs, and a hard lesson in how evacuation insurance really works when you’re far from home and the paperwork clock is ticking. We walk through the chain ...
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  Salty Podcast #86⛵ They Sailed to the Sea of Cortez | Catching Up with 2 Brits 1 Box 09.01.2026 58min

  Send us Fan Mail A seven-hour U-turn at the border, a raw water pump that turned engine oil to gray sludge, and a squall that flipped the wind from 15 knots to 35 in minutes—this catch-up with Lizzie and Billy is the kind of salty storytelling that turns lessons into confidence. We reconnect in La Paz to trace their route from Drake’s Bay down the California coast, through the Channel Islands’ magic mix of breeze and flat water, and along Baja’s remote anchorages where AA batteries can buy yo...