How Not To Sail

After Capt. Bob Bitchin kidnapped his bartender Jody, they set out on a world cruise and ended up starting America's number one boating lifestyle...

Bob explains the origin of his most famous saying...

Bitchin tells how he got started sailing, how he overcame seasickness, and how sailing convinced him to "quit doing drugs."

Some days you just need more coffee. Or more cowbell. Your choice.

Check out my trip up the ICW to Snug Harbor Boat Works, and watch as we hoist all 18,000 pounds of Jacie Sails out of...

It’s always interesting to climb up a ladder onto your boat—which, strangely...

Well, the laptop ran outta juice...so in lieu of a description for now, I reckon the video itself will have to do the talking.

Looking for the best books for sailors for Christmas...? Look no further than this list of my 7 best books (plus two series and...

Check it out...the official launch of the "real stuff" on the How Not To Sail YouTube channel! (You don't have to subscribe, but hey,...

Super-proud to announce that the How Not To Sail podcast is now available on the largest music streaming platform in the U.S....Pandora!

She's a dirty girl...

In my quest to learn more about this "Trop Rock" music that all the boaters seem to love, I talk to Eric Stone, Mike Nash, and Brian Watson from SV Another Road.

Lots going on, as usual...

Don't visit here! (We want it all to ourselves!)

Sometimes in cruising—and in life—things don’t go like you planned.

There are a lot of reasons a perfectly normal person would buy a floating money pit—er, sailboat—and decide to go messing about on the water…

Well, the title pretty much says it all. This week, I'm answering listener questions from YOU, #HowNotToSailer...!

While we're waiting to see what happened under the bridge, check out this amazing timelapse of nautical art creation in Phototshop...

In this episode, I make the leap 90 miles south from Marco to Marathon, and find...something in the way. (Or many somethings, really.)

Just an update to let you know that How Not To Sail is now available on RadioPublic! If you are looking for an app to...