Check out this audio interview from Mad Mariner™ - this guy is impressive.

Ike Hastings
River King Ike Hastings Discusses His Life on the Water

A retired art teacher, Ike Hastings is a Mississippi riverboat builder and captain who has built dozens of boats, including the 100-foot sternwheeler he currently rides – a boat big enough to carry its own plane (and yeah, he built that, too).

Recorded: Saturday, April 17, 2010
Running Time: 30 minutes

Glen-L is hosting another teleseminar covering electrical and hydraulic steering installations.

May 12, 2009 at 5:00 pm Pacific Time - sign up at the link.

The host, Carl, built the Fifty Plus... gorgeous boat.

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Mad Mariner™ has recorded and is offering up quite a few podcasts/mp3/audio files for your listening pleasure. Listen on your PC or download to an iPod of the like.

Several of them have transcripts available if you prefer to read your content rather that listen to it.

I'm going to be hosted on one in the future, so stay tuned :-)

A posting (with an incredible picture) by our friends at Navagear pointed out this interesting Coast Guard blog/podcast hosted by Petty Officer 3rd Class Tara Molle.

Nice to see direct communications from our Coast Guard, without all the "formal press release" stuff.

I hadn't really expected NPR (National Public Radio) to be a source for my boating interests, but they surprised me yesterday.

They have an ongoing series of "SoundClips" segments (many are quite interesting) where listeners send in interesting sounds that they have encountered and recorded. The segment yesterday dealt with a "Origami Boat" that a man produced in Austin, TX. read more »

Good Old Boat magazine is selling various boating and "sea stories" in downloadable mp3 format to play on your computer or portable mp3 player.

Sailing stories that are begging to be told, brought to you by your friends at Good Old Boat magazine.