Power and Motoryacht Podcast

Marine Wildlife's Biggest Enemy: Wood!? Wounded Nature operations director Whit Jones explains the lesser known pollution harming coastal wildlife and how his organization is working to solve it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From the bayou to the Rocky Mountains, and the depths of the Pacific to the sandbars of New England, Stomping Grounds is a new video series from Boat Trader that features boaters across America showcasing why they love their boat and what features make it the perfect vessel for their neck of the woods. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you’re going to run Haulover Inlet in 20-knot winds and 5- to 7-foot seas, the Maritimo M55 enclosed bridge yacht is up to the task. We know because we did it. Find out more about the design of the Aussie company’s latest vessel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Editors from Power & Motoryacht, Soundings and Passagemaker sit down in the salon of a Swift Trawler 48 with professional delivery captain Jim Marshall. A treasure trove of knowledge and sea stories, you won't want to miss this one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ukrainian employees working in the boatbuilding powerhouse of Poland are laying down their tools and picking up machine guns in the war in Ukraine. Editor-in-Chief Dan Harding interviews Axopar Founding Partner Jan-Erik Viitala in this special podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Capt. Bill Pike opens up about the gnarliest boat test he's ever done, and why an acquaintance was confident he'd never make it in this industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Now that the February 2022 issue is hitting homes and shelves, Dan and Simon discuss what went into creating the February issue from a storyboarding perspective. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sit down with Instagram’s most notorious boating influencer and you’ll quickly see that The Qualified Captain is not all about poking fun at boating snafus, it’s also about educating people so they don’t make the same mistakes. Learn more at pmymag.com Subscribe to Power & Motoryacht magazine at pmymag.com/subscribe Subscribe to our FREE newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone...

After years spent helping others buy their dream boat, former Marine One pilot and professional broker Matt Howard chases his own dreams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A father-and-son team make the 1,200-nm run up the Inside Passage to Alaska, with nothing but solar power to fuel their dream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan and Bill discuss how choosing the right marina can make or break your boating experience. Join them on this stroll down boating memory lane. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matthew Rhys Evans and Capt. Kelli Farwell stop by to discuss the ongoing restoration of Rarebit, a 1939 Wheeler Playmate, which is available for charter around New York City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There have been over a thousand reported sightings of something in Loch Ness, a lake in the Highlands of Scotland. Adrian Shine, leader of Loch Ness & Morar Project, offers his theories, and divulges his own gripping encounter with the sea monster. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Talking pirate simulators, communal songs, #ShantyTok and the exploding popularity of shanties with the Bristol, U.K.-based band, The Longest Johns, who perform a series of their favorites, including "Wellerman" and "The Mary Ellen Carter" from their upcoming album. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two Wheelers, built 80 years apart, converge in Brooklyn after actor Matthew Rhys (Perry Mason, The Americans) cold calls the fourth-generation owner of the Wheeler Yacht Company. Nothing less than history is made. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Each year, boat manufacturers of all walks come to the Ft. Lauderdale International Boat Show with their latest and greatest vessels. Power & Motoryacht editors Daniel Harding and Charlie Levine attended the show to get a first-hand glimpse of these new boats that range from large yachts to center consoles. Listen in as the editors discuss the overall theme of the show and dig in on some of their...

When he was in his early twenties, Vinnie Lasorsa took a job running a boat for none other than Jimmy Buffett. There’s no other musician that relates to boaters quite like Buffett and based on our conversation with Vinnie, Buffett is the real deal. In this interview we talk about the various types of fish Jimmy Buffett likes to chase, the custom 42-foot Freeman boat that Vinnie played a pivotal ro...

Legendary designer and Power and Motoryacht columnist Tom Fexas left an indelible impression that influences our writing style today. Capt. Bill Pike and Dan remember Fexas and revisit one of his most endearing columns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A battle with Parkinson's forces a pair of avid boaters to hand off their lines and walk away from their most treasured pastime and in the process teaches us all to not put life on hold.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With storms increasing in strength and frequency, the editors discuss their storm stories and strategies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tom Brady, Michael Jordan and Conor McGregor have risen to incredible heights in their chosen sports. Besides being ultra-competitive, gifted athletes, these three men also have a love of boating. In the latest Power and Motoryacht Podcast, editors Simon Murray and Charlie Levine talk about the boats these iconic sports stars own. You might just be surprised to learn who the big fisherman is and w...

The editors jump on an emergency broadcast to discuss the hugely popular Best Boats Contest going on now on our Instagram channel. With hours left to vote, the Hinckley and Rybovich are in a neck-and-neck race to the finish. Vote now!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paul Mann shares his knowledge on all things boatbuilding, from classic methods to hull shape to new materials. Find out what it takes to build a classic Carolina-style sportfishing boat. At just 25 years old, Paul Mann splashed his first custom sportfish, using the skills and know-how he picked up from some of the best-known Carolina boatbuilders of the day. That first boat, the Madd Hatter, was...

Best Boat Bracket 2021. Friendships are tested as the editors debate which production boat stands atop all the rest. Warning: Things get heated. The contestants are: Bertram 31, Boston Whaler 13, Cape Dory 28, Donzi Sweet 16, Grand Banks 42 Europa, Hinckley Picnic Boat , Krogen 42, Midnight Lace, Nordhavn 46, Rybovich 42 Sportfish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the upcoming First Responders themed issue of Power and Motoryacht magazine, executive editor Charlie Levine spent a day with the Air and Marine Operations, a division of the Department of Homeland Security. We dive into the tactics the interdiction agents use during on-water chases, what it’s like to run around at night with no lights, and of course the boats these agents rely on to do their...