https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/a-sailors-point-of-view-scott-dodgson/ A Sailor’s Point of View Foreword Oceanic travel by passenger ship began ending when the airline Pan Am announced regular transatlantic flights in 1945. Travel by plane changed the very essence of the traveler’s psychology and the fundamental experience of a different…

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 put down. He takes you on an adventure of a lifetime and gives you a different perspective about significant changes in your life. I found the main cha…

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BFTSWDBQ 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 surveyor closely and take notes. Maritime regulations are there to make you safe, prevent pollution to the environment, and provide suitable working standard…

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 sky. The temperature is a balmy 80 or 27 Celsius. The cockpit light hanging over the thick varnished table reflects a warm golden hue on everyone’s fac…

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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, and their families during the American Civil War by commandeering a Confederate transport ship, CSS Planter, in Charleston harbor, on May 13, 1862, and s…

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 or not! I cover all the systems for cooking as well as different equipment for your situation. Day Sailor, Live aboard that stays put and Cruiser, to ch…

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, is a distant third. If the American mariner was the central character in the movie about America, the supporting characters would be the entrepreneurs …

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 you 24/7 for an extended time: Kindness and training. Please buy my new book Mosaic Artist: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09KQ6R34R Listen to past episod…

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 history, specific characteristics from the tenacity of the Japanese fisherman/sailor have profoundly shaped the American mariner. Sailor’s knowledge is t…

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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 not wanted by the law but so emotionally disconnected, my head put out a warrant for my heart. There is a beautiful disconnectedness about sailing. Oce…

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 sail away from the weather event and what to do if you are hunkering down. Bad weather avoidance. Listen to past episodes Offshore Explorer Ships Locke…

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 critical aspects of their mental machinations. Being deceitful is commonplace. What isn’t commonplace is truthfulness. There is a global business of selling …

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 for Vessel Assist made me familiar with what boats were around and how to find them. I was approached by a recovery agency to find a couple of boats. I …

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 unaware I would do a lot of different things before I finished. In fact, I’m still doing different things. Few have you probably aren’t old enough to r…

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 fundamental experience of a different place. We travel to learn and grow. Curiosity drives our quest to see the next port, to look around the bend, to climb…

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 level of mad sailing skills unless I was at an America’s Cup race or a Whitbread/Volvo race. There are few places in the world were time and circums…

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 worst charter, were we?” In other words, “who was the worst charterer? What were they like and what did they do?” My reply was if you are asking this qu…

To be successful in the charter boat business you need the right personality, sailing skill set, fix-it skill set, vast amount of energy, and the commitment to building the business. I set out three different levels of the charter business. Brokage charter is when you buy a boat and put into a company who runs the charter business. Monied yacht cha…

I can see several points where my life voyage has made important turns. Certainly, learning to sail as a young boy with my grandfather set me on the sailor’s way. Buying my first boat, Steppenwolf, which I’ve documented in the Casket Salesman Episode # 6 podcast. My military experience. Time away from the water while I went to school, married, divo…

The nautical tradition of flags and pennants are an important communication tool is in use today as much as it was a thousand years ago. Every country in the world has regulations on the size and method of national flags and how theyare flown. In fact, we refer to a boat's nationality as a vessel thatis flagged. This leads me to an observation abou…

ITALIANI BRAVA GENTE is a myth fostered by the 1991 academy award winning film Mediterraneo. The decent Italian. I talk about the complexity of the Mediterranean character, one face one place. Diving into the history and the nuances of life on a tiny island made famous for a film, but prior to that pleasant experience was bombed by the Germans, Ita…

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Offshore Explorer Ships Locker: https://www.offshoreshipslocker.com/ Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Scintillians Buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/offshoreexplorer Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OffshoreexplorerTodd Bartoo, Scott Dodgson

Offshore Explorer Ships Locker: https://www.offshoreshipslocker.com/ Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Scintillians Buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/offshoreexplorer Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OffshoreexplorerTodd Bartoo, Scott Dodgson

Offshore Explorer Ships Locker: https://www.offshoreshipslocker.com/ Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Scintillians Buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/offshoreexplorer Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OffshoreexplorerScott Dodgson, Todd Bartoo

Offshore Explorer Ships Locker: https://www.offshoreshipslocker.com/ Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Scintillians Buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/offshoreexplorer Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OffshoreexplorerScott Dodgson, Todd Bartoo

Offshore Explorer Ships Locker: https://www.offshoreshipslocker.com/ Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Scintillians Buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/offshoreexplorer Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OffshoreexplorerScott Dodgson, Todd Bartoo

Offshore Explorer Ships Locker: https://www.offshoreshipslocker.com/ Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Scintillians Buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/offshoreexplorer Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OffshoreexplorerScott Dodgson, Todd Bartoo

Offshore Explorer Ships Locker: https://www.offshoreshipslocker.com/ Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Scintillians Buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/offshoreexplorer Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OffshoreexplorerScott Dodgson, Todd Bartoo

Offshore Explorer Ships Locker: https://www.offshoreshipslocker.com/ Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Scintillians Buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/offshoreexplorer Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OffshoreexplorerScott Dodgson, Todd Bartoo

Offshore Explorer Ships Locker: https://www.offshoreshipslocker.com/ Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Scintillians Buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/offshoreexplorer Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OffshoreexplorerScott Dodgson, Todd Bartoo

Offshore Explorer Ships Locker: https://www.offshoreshipslocker.com/ Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Scintillians Buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/offshoreexplorer Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OffshoreexplorerScott Dodgson, Todd Bartoo

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The American Mariner owes a great debt to the English maritime industry and the royal navy. To begin understanding the influence I would suggest reading the Patrick O’Brian books. In this podcast, Scott discovers how a series of very well written books influenced his outlook on sailing and places. Tradition, sailing practices, and the detailed imme…

I choose some of the topics from discussions I have with other sailors. I find in general sailors to be pretty sophisticated in their self-awareness and thoughtfulness. I strive to open up areas and notions that will make the sailor better informed and more understanding. Sailing is life. A sailor's point of view is as important to culture and coun…

When things go wrong, there are things we hope to never use, but keep them just in case. What happens when you have to use them? Scott tells us of the time he was stranded on his sailboat as a teenager. The invention of the steam engine did not prevent boats from carrying sails just in case. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Scintilli…

I’ve gotten a lot of requests from guys that are trying to convince their wife or girlfriend to go sailing, sell their house, car, and everything else they have and jump on a boat and spend the rest of their lives sailing. Now I’m not a relationship advice kind of guy. Chris Rock said, “Relationships are like carrying a sofa: you can’t do it by you…

As the year draws to a close, Scott and Todd reminisce about the past year of the podcast and some of the most popular episodes. They also discuss the origin of the podcast as well as plans for the future. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Scintillians Read the Blog: https://offshoreexplorer.blogspot.com/ Support us on Patreon: https:…

I spent 17 Christmases on Virgin Gorda at the Bitter End Yacht Club and Saba Rock. This is not just any Christmas story, this is a sailor’s Christmas story. As a sailor, you’re almost always away from home, and home becomes a kind of idea. But sitting at the Bitter End on a mooring with the bow of the boat bobbing, pointing directly into the trades…

Scott recounts meeting and befriending Al Kassar, a famous weapons merchant. Sailing brings you into many situations, good and bad, but mostly situations where right and wrong is too close to call. Scott implores everyone to stretch their legs, shake the cruising cobwebs off, get out of your boat (Your monastery!), and meet people that are not taxi…

I received a few text messages from a couple that has moved from the land to the boat and now they want to move back to the land. Now they are having a crisis about moving forward with their dreams. It brought to mind the difference between the land mindset and the cruising mindset. Moving from the land to the boat and from the boat back to the lan…

For over three hundred years the world came to America by ship and continues with millions of tons of cargo arriving every day. American ports served as the front door to the world. We tell little-known stories about the men and women who shaped our history and life today. The American Mariner stories told port by port paint an astonishing examinat…

Scott recounts his re-discovery of romantic poets, Shelly and Byron, while he supervises building a yacht. He draws a connection between the Romantics and sailing. Scott warns about sailcloth weight. He visits a local restaurant and learns to eat Italian style. He learns the history of a merchant marine bar with interesting clientele. He befriends …

Desperation causes bad decisions and sometimes bloody ones as well. I can’t recall another group of men who have been so thoroughly evil that have been so incautiously elevated to the status of the loveable rogue. Scott talks about a trip down the Suez Canal around Somalia to Kenya and back. Some tips on traveling in pirate-infested waters and an e…

Scott explores the link between food and sailing. The desire for spices to preserve and flavor food drives the Age of discovery. That desire to travel further and faster for trade is accompanied by technical achievements in sailing. The most important commodity in the world for the longest time was pepper. Scott talks about today’s modern refrigera…

In the tradition of Conrad, Scott tells the story of psychological stress and a captain's breaking point. In the middle of the ocean with little legal tracking of crew members, getting away with murder is a lot easier than anywhere in the world. Sail with our narrator from Trinidad to Gibraltar while under a curse. Even if you don't believe in curs…