INDEPENDENT AUDIO DOCUMENTARIES
One boat. The whole story.
Independent audio documentaries about a single vessel. The story and the spec sheet in one.
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Boats evolve. Hear the story.
THE PROBLEM
A listing tells you what is aboard. It rarely tells you why.
A spec list tells you what is on the boat. It does not tell you what it feels like to run one, why it was built that way, who decided it, or what they learned the hard way. That part lives scattered across service records, old magazine features, forum threads, and the owner’s own account, and nobody has put it in one place.
THE SOLUTION
One vessel, researched independently, told as a documentary.
Every episode takes a single boat and follows the whole story: the design decisions, the refits, the passages, the systems, and the tradeoffs that came with each one. Facts are traced to sources, and when the record is uncertain we say so out loud. Roughly twenty to forty-five minutes, made to listen to on the drive, the walk, or at the gym.
THE METHOD
How each episode gets made.
01
Research
We gather everything the record holds: build history, ownership, service and refit documentation, published coverage, and the owner’s own account where it exists.
02
Verify
Every claim is checked against a source. Where sources disagree, we say so. Where a number is an estimate, we call it an estimate.
03
The Story
The findings become a story, not a report. The design decisions, how the systems actually work, and what the owners learned living with them. Two hosts working through one boat, so it is worth the time it takes to listen.
THE LISTENING ROOM
Listen to an episode.
Blue Max: The Bulb, the Beer Can, and the Life It Bought
Episode Two. Blue Max, a 1981 Albin 43.
34:24
The Mechanic Who Silenced His Trawler
Episode One. Partnership II, a 2003 Mainship 400.
18:29
FOLLOW ALONG
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WHO MAKES THESE
I started making these for myself. I want a liveaboard trawler someday, and when I went looking for the real story on the boats I was drawn to, it was never in one place. It was scattered across service records, old magazine features, and forum threads, and nobody had put it together. So I did, one boat at a time, and it turned out other people wanted the same thing.
I’m not a lifelong salty captain, but I’ve spent my life craving the water, fishing it and paddling a kayak since I was a kid. The technician in me is the other half. I spend my days keeping complicated systems running, in massive wind turbines and on a factory floor, machines that only work when every part behaves. A boat is no different, and plenty of them are more complex than people think. So I come at these boats from both sides, the part of me that just wants to be out there, and the part that can’t help seeing how she’s put together.
I keep finding boats where somebody looked at what the factory built and decided it wasn’t good enough.
The gear and systems get upgraded. Every owner shapes her to a different purpose.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
“That was really a great explanation of our boat. Well done.”
Mike Wharton, Blue Max, a 1981 Albin 43
We are not brokers and we do not sell boats. Every episode is independently researched and tells the full story, including the parts a listing would leave out.
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Independent research and scripting
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