Offshore Explorer with Scott Dodgson

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A Sailor’s Point of View

Foreword

Oceanic travel by passenger ship began ending when the airline Pan Am announced regu…

Scott Dodgson is a very captivating storyteller indeed, an easy read. I am a serious fan of his podcast, Offshore Explorer, so I decided to buy one of his books. Not A Moment To Lose was too good to …

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The first time boat buyer will meet a maritime professional for the first time in the form of a surveyor. 

Why? How to use it? And the reasons to follow the surve…

Let me couch these stories into this atmosphere. Pretend you have come over to my boat one evening and we are sharing dinner and maybe a drink or two. The sun has set, and the stars just blanket the …

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Robert Smalls (April 5, 1839 – February 23, 1915) was an American politician, publisher, businessman, and maritime pilot. Born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina, he freed himself, his crew, an…

Next to sailing, sex, cooking and eating/drinking is the most important activity on a boat. 

General Tips: Planning, Make meals in advance, space management, The right kit, expectations be realistic o…

Father of the Port of Los Angeles

The American mariner does not exist in a vacuum. Commerce and war are the two key principles of purpose for the sailor. The third principle of purpose, exploration, i…

I have hired or invited hundreds of crew onto my boats of the years. I have learned some difficult lessons, but I have found a couple of key elements to allowing someone on your boat who will be with…

Saké Barrel Divers 

The mariner brings a spirit of work and focus to any job. A fisherman brings faith. Together, these traits form a citizen of the oceans. In the middle chapters of world nautical hi…

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Fugitives

I have found over fifty years of sailing around the world that fugitives of all sorts gravitate to boats as a way of hiding from authorities. I would know. I was a fugitive from myself yet n…

I offer advice on sailing in the Caribbean during hurricane season. There are plenty of bad pieces of water like the Bay of Biscay,  Bay of Lyon, the Mona Passage and more. How to prepare you boat to…

A love story. 

Knowing the truth about yourself may be the hardest insight to discover. Human beings have a natural ability to deceive themselves about the most important and sometimes the most critic…

Repo Man. I never liked taking a boat from someone. I would be devastated if it happened to me. Banks just want their money. They don't care. I share a story on how I got into the business. Driving f…

Turbulent is how I would describe my teen years. I started down one path, going to college with all the uncertainty and trepidation leaving home trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life …

Oceanic travel by passenger ship began ending when Airlines Pan Am announced regular transatlantic flights in 1945. Travel by plane changed the very essence of the traveler’s psychology and the funda…

Bohemian Sailors

Coral Bay St. John USVI

For a moment in time Coral Bay was the home of sailors who are visionaries and hippies and drug smugglers. I have never come across a group of sailors with this…

The voyage that never ends. 

I was asked by charterers over my years generally the same question but in different forms, “Are we one of the best charter groups you have ever had?” or “We weren’t the …