When Henry Hudson sailed into New York Harbor in 1609, he saw one of the most vibrant and diverse ecosystems the world had ever seen, but as the population of the city grew, all of the oyster reefs were consumed and widespread pollution turned the harbor into a dead zone, unable to support any forms of life. This began to turn around in the 70’s with the passing of the Clean Water Act but there is a lot of damage to be undone. The Billion Oyster Project is looking to clean the harbor by repopula...
Jan 14, 2020•58 min
Tracy Edwards was the 27-year old ambitious sailor who skippered Maiden, the first all-female crew to race in the 89-90 Whitbread Around the World Race. This spring, the critically acclaimed documentary Maiden was released worldwide, and it recounts the struggles and obstacles that Tracy and the rest of the crew faced leading up to, and during, the sailing’s toughest test. The film was directed by Alex Holmes and features stunning archival footage taken onboard during their grueling 32,000nm jou...
Jan 14, 2020•56 min
The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Hurricane Hunters have the seemingly crazy task of flying directly into one of the most destructive forces known to man. From June to November, these brave pilots are busy flying researchers, scientist and meteorologist into the Atlantic to gather crucial data that will help forecast, track and warn those in harms way. For Episode 33, we talk with NOAA pilot, LT Kevin Doremus, fresh off of flying into the Cat. 5 hurricane Dorian,...
Jan 14, 2020•1 hr 8 min
Since Tabor Academy moved to the head of Sippican Harbor in Marion MA, the school has empowered students to develop their leadership skills onboard their sailing yacht Tabor Boy. The current Tabor Boy, (TBIII) a 1914 North Sea Pilot Schooner, has been under the command of Capt. James Geil since 1987, and for the past three decades he has introduced the joys and responsibilities of being out at sea to countless students. From orientation cruises for incoming freshmen and racing in this year’s Mar...
Jan 14, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Tyler and Carter welcome Woody Metzger of First Light Boatworks back into the EPB Studio talk about the latest modification of their award-winning 26’ Monomoy, the Pocasset. The crew at First Light completed the build and launched the hull in mid-October, and instead of transporting her to the owner in Florida the traditional way, over the road with a truck and trailer, Woody decided to make the cannonball run from Chatham to Marco Island on her own bottom! Ten days and nearly 2000 NM! Listen in...
Jan 14, 2020•1 hr 1 min
The Talisker Atlantic Challenge ( https://www.taliskerwhiskyatlanticchallenge.com/ ) is a 3000 NM ocean rowing race from The Canary Islands to Antigua and it has been called the “World’s Toughest Row”. Building on their successful finish last year, a new all-veteran Fight Oar Die team will be casting off on December 12th with thirty-four other crews. Skippered by former Submariner Carl Christensen, this year’s team will help raise money and awareness to problems that face our men and women in un...
Jan 14, 2020•14 min
Last winter, Tyler headed up to New Hampshire on assignment to photograph Med Chandler, owner of Ship’s Coy Forge for an upcoming article in WoodenBoat Magazine about blacksmithing traditional caulking irons. Med was introduced to blacksmithing as a 7th grader and spent his early adulthood working on traditional wooden schooners and honing his skills reproducing period authentic iron hardware. In 2010, he decided to open up his own forge and he now sends traditional shipbuilding and timber frami...
Nov 08, 2019•57 min
Perry Raso grew up digging for little neck clams in Point Judith pond. After graduating from the University of Rhode Island, he opened up the Matunuck Oyster Farm, a small one-acre oyster farm in South Kingston, RI. The farm quickly grew and then in 2009, Perry became a restaurateur as well, renovating a small dilapidated clam shack at the entrance of the Pond into the critically acclaimed Matunuck Oyster Bar. Today, the restaurant is packed to the gills! They have opened a new oyster hatchery, ...
Sep 11, 2019•50 min
Aug 17, 2019•1 min
For many, the 12 Metres have been synonymous with the America’s Cup, but the class goes way deeper than that. Designed in the early 1900s, it was first sailed as a cruiser/racer, but that changed when the New York Yacht Club picked it as the next class to defend for the Cup. From 1956 to 1983, the best of the best in the sailing world came to Newport to compete in the waters of Rhode Island Sound, and this summer they are back! The 12 Metre World Championships will be held from July 9th-July 13t...
Jul 03, 2019•55 min
The S-Boat is one of Nat. Herreshoff’s most iconic designs, and this year, it turns 100! In this episode, we talk with Alan Silken who just finished writing Setting Sail in America, a comprehensive history of the class that includes the origins of the design, and the many fleets here in New England, and even on the other side of the world in Hawaii. (Yes, I said Hawaii!) Then we bring in the Commodore of the Narragansett Bay S-Boat Fleet, Fred Roy, to talk about all the events surrounding the ce...
Jun 28, 2019•1 hr 36 min
The David B was built in 1929 and served as a towing vessel for the fishing companies off the coast of Alaska, after being decommissioned in the 1950s she went the route of many wooden boats of that era and was beached and left to rot. Thankfully, Jeffery and Christine Smith came across her and in 1998 they decided to undertake a full restoration that would get her back on the water. Jeffery and Christine now run the David B as a small-scale, personalized “cruise ship", running tours up and down...
May 22, 2019•1 hr 6 min
The Race to Alaska is a 750 mile sprint up the Inside Passage from Port Townsend, WA to Ketchikan AK, and the only rules are that your boat can’t have an engine and there can be no outside organized support. Sounds simple right? Wrong! This is a race for the mad! Self-described as the Iditarod on a boat; competitors face the chance of drowning, dodging freighters, being eaten by Grizzly Bears, insane squalls and 20-knot tidal currents, all while being surrounded by the most breathtaking scenery....
Apr 26, 2019•54 min
6:00 – Doors Open 7:00 – Brad Read leads a discussion with returning crew members 7:30 – Movie Around the Buoy is excited to announce our second movie night! On April 16th at the Jane Pickens Theater in Newport, RI, we will be screening the 2008 documentary Morning Light! The film chronicles 15 young sailors as they train and compete in the 2007 Transpac race from Los Angles to Honolulu. Among the Morning Light crew are a handful of local Rhode Islander sailors who have grown to become some of t...
Apr 12, 2019•1 min
Sail Newport has been Rhode Island’s public sailing center since its inception in 1983 and it has attracted sailors as young and inexperienced as the kids in their summer Guppy Program to the biggest names in the sport with the 2018 Volvo Ocean Race stopover. Brad Read is the executive director of Sail Newport and he has been instrumental in bringing high profile events like The Ocean Race to Narragansett Bay and by partnering up with American Magic, hopefully returning The Cup to her home. With...
Apr 08, 2019•1 hr 2 min
Fight Oar Die with Bryant Knight Getting out of the military is tough enough but with an estimated 1/3 of all deployed soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan suffering from the invisible wounds of war like Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury, this transition becomes nearly impossible. Bryant Knight, a retired Army Major and combat veteran, wanted to do something to help out. He is the president the ocean rowing team Fight Oar Die and along with three other Army combat vets; Alex ...
Mar 28, 2019•1 hr 8 min
When Newport Harbor empties out in the winter, a group of intrepid dinghy sailors takes the opportunity to hit the water. Every Sunday from October to April, the members of Laser Fleet 413 gather on the beach at Sail Newport to launch their boats for some around the buoys racing. Some call them nuts or crazy and how could you blame them, but as fleet co-captain, Scott Pakenham will tell you, there is no better time to sail in Newport. Take a listen as we talk with Scott about what it is like to ...
Mar 11, 2019•52 min
Dawn Riley has done everything in the sailing world; from scraping by as a young sailor living in her van and making sandwiches to running an America’s Cup campaign. Along the way she has shattered a host of glass ceilings; Dawn was a part of the first all-female crew in the 89-90 Whitbread, the first full time female crew member on an America’s Cup boat and the only woman to head a Cup campaign. Truly a badass! Today she is the Executive Director of the Oakcliff Sailing Program, a unique school...
Feb 26, 2019•31 min
Each spring, Classic Boat Magazine recognizes and celebrates the best of the best in their industry. The Classic Boat Awards includes categories for everything from the best restorations of power and sailboats, Traditional New Build and Boater of the Year. This year’s the list of nominees is once again spectacular! In this episode, Tyler and Carter talk to Rob Peake, the editor of Classic Boat Magazine about the history of the publication, what’s in store for 2019 and most importantly who made t...
Feb 14, 2019•53 min
Friend of the show, Jamie Enos, has arguably the best job in the world; she is the skipper of the beautiful 1965 Aage Neilsen-designed ketch Saphaedra. Last year, her owner decided to head overseas to cruise the Norwegian Sea and spend the summer exploring the fjords of Norway. In Episode 20, we talk to Jamie about the last 12 years cruising New England and Caribbean waters, the preparation for going over seas, and all about her travels in the land of the midnight sun. We also get the full story...
Jan 17, 2019•44 min
Herman Melville boarded a whaling ship out of New Bedford in 1841 for a five year adventure that served as the inspiration for his novel Moby Dick, the epic tale of Capt. Ahab and his obsessive search for the Great White Whale. Every year since 1996, the New Bedford Whaling Museum has be host to the Moby Dick Marathon, a 25 hour continual reading of the American classic, and people from around the world come to participate. In Episode 19, Tyler and Carter talk with Bob Rocha of the Museum about ...
Dec 21, 2018•55 min
This Fall, the Board of Directors of the National Sailing Hall of Fame, led by Gary Jobson, announced that they will be moving from Annapolis, MD to the waterfront of our hometown, Newport, RI. Gary has been involved with sailing his entire life. A two-time Collegiate Sailor of the Year, he had a fortuitous meeting with the “Mouth of the South,” Ted Turner, that lead to him being the Tactician onboard the 12 Meter COURAGEOUS during the successful defense of the America’s Cup in 1977 at the young...
Dec 06, 2018•34 min
The Mayflower II is a replica of the original ship that brought more than a hundred settlers from Europe to the New World in 1620. Built in 1956, she was a gift to the citizens of America from the English as a thank-you for their support during WWII. Since being delivered in 1957, she has been a focal point at The Plimoth Plantation, welcoming visitors onboard to give them a sense of what life onboard was like. But after 60 years and 25 million visitors, she was in need of a restoration, and who...
Nov 20, 2018•55 min
Leo Goolden is no stranger to big projects, after completing the restoration of the 1947 Folkboat, LOREMA, he sailed her from England to Antigua where he cleaned up in the Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta. Currently, he is in the middle of a much larger project, the restoration of the 1909 Gaff Cutter TALLY-HO. Leo has been documenting the entire restoration on his website and they are highly entertaining. In Episode 16, Tyler and Carter talk with Leo about the unique history of the boat, how the r...
Nov 11, 2018•49 min
From 1878 to 1945, The Herreshoff Manufacturing Company was the leading authority on designing and building the fastest yachts known to man. After the yard closed its doors, all the company’s documents, approximately 19,000 pieces, were donated to the Hart Nautical Collection at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Museum. In the past, the public has had limited access to these documents, but with the advancements in digital photography the museum has made a push to make this information mo...
Oct 26, 2018•32 min
As the impacts from global warming become more and more undeniable, many people and organizations are thinking of ways to reduce their footprint and become more carbon neutral. Sail Cargo has a loftier goal, they not only want to be carbon neutral, they are striving to be carbon negative. For the past year the crew at Sail Cargo has been constructing the “Jungle Shipyard” in Costa Rica and gathering supplies to build the wooden sailing cargo ship CEIBA. In Episode 14, Tyler and Carter talk to Da...
Oct 02, 2018•37 min
Rocking the Boat started in 1996 as a volunteer project teaching East Harlem junior high school students how to build wooden boats after school and over the past 20 years it has grown to offer programs in sailing, rowing and environmental studies as well. Their motto is, “Kids just don’t build boats, boats build kids.” and the proof is seen in the graduation rates and college enrollment numbers of their students that are well above NYC’s averages. In Episode 13, we talk to Ben Bentley, the Boatb...
Sep 13, 2018•32 min
When Jon Wilson published the first issue of WoodenBoat Magazine in 1974, the number of his employees, (him, his wife and their toddler son) outnumbered their subscribers, two. But thanks to some self-admitted naivete and a ton of perseverance, WoodenBoat can now be found on newsstands around the world. In this episode, Tyler and Carter talk to the founder of WoodenBoat Magazine and discuss how his passion for wooden boats not only saved a significant part of our maritime history but also inspir...
Sep 04, 2018•55 min
"First light is almost a religion." Woody Metzger, from First Light Boatworks, joins us in this episode. Learn about the history of this interesting boat-building and restoration yard located in Chatham, Massachusetts. First Light builds, restores, and services wooden boats. They are also the exclusive builder of the Monomoy 26', an absolutely stunning, award-winning lapstrake powerboat. Plus, Tyler shares his experiences photographing an, um, unique car race in Baja California, Mexico. Listen i...
Jul 30, 2018•53 min
Things are rocking and rolling at Around the Buoy! We are excited to introduce you to Tyler Fields as our new co-host. As we focus on growing this podcast and bringing you interesting content from around boating world, Carter and Tyler are all set to do that with their broad boating knowledge and humor-infused approach to sharing their passion with you. They have a great on-air dynamic that will keep you tuning in each month and becoming a part of this new digital family of boat lovers. Listen i...
Jul 02, 2018•4 min
