Salty Podcast: Sailing

About Salty Podcast: Sailing

The Salty Podcast shares real sailing stories and adventures — expert tips, ocean crossings, storm tales, heartwarming stories, and the quirks of life at sea. Each week, Cap’n Tinsley brings you voices from the water: sailors who’ve crossed oceans, lived aboard, and chased horizons. Join The Salty Podcast each week for adventures in storm survival, cruising life, and the joy of sailing. No fluff — just salty conversations, heartfelt moments, and lessons from sailors worldwide. Salty Abandon is Captain Tinsley from Gulf Shores & Orange Beach AL: Oct 2020 to Present - 1998 Island Packet 320; 2015-2020 - 1988 Island Packet 27 (lost in Hurricane Sally Sep 2020) Want to support the podcast? http://patreon.com/SaltyAbandon (http://patreon.com/SaltyAbandon) Salty Podcast Shop: https://SaltyPodcast.myshopify.com https://youtube.com/@svsaltyabandon https://www.facebook.com/saltyabandon sailing podcast, sailing stories, sailing adventures, sailboat life, cruising lifestyle, liveaboard sailors, ocean adventures, solo sailing, circumnavigation, bluewater cruising, sailing the Caribbean, sailing the Bahamas, offshore sailing, storm stories, sailing interviews, real-life sailing stories from around the world, tips and experiences from liveaboard sailors, adventures of solo and crewed sailors, lessons from storms, passages, and long crossings, cruising life beyond the horizon

Publisher

Captain Tinsley

Category

leisure · sports · sports

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Feb 2024

Latest episode

3 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

118 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   3 Sept 2026

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

   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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   28 Aug 2026

   Affordable Luxury Sailing ⛵ Real Impact in Grenada | Salty Podcast #103

   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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   17 Aug 2026

   Salty Podcast #102 ⛵ Cecilia Potts: Baja, Sailing & Island Packets

   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...

Who has been a guest on Salty Podcast: Sailing

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Melanie Neale
• Carolyn Neale
• Deborah Hammett
• Jerome Rand
• James Canning

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

15 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 60 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

95

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

60

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Guest appearances

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