December 12, 2025 • 63 mins
Salt air, guitar strings, and a catamaran that doubles as a tour bus—this conversation sails straight into the heart of Gulf Coast life. We sit down with Captain Matt, a charter captain turned songwriter who chose six knots over forty and found his voice again between sunrise watches and storm-tossed nights. From a generous offer on a 2002 Gemini 105MC to dockside concerts after Hurricane Helene upended plans, he shows how a boat can be both home and headline.
The journey is anything but tidy. A rogue gust shreds the mainsail like a zipper, buoys shift a hundred feet after a storm, and a night approach in Louisiana becomes a lesson in leadership under pressure. Matt talks candidly about keeping calm so your crew can, too, and how the slow cadence of sailing leaves room for writing—three to five songs on a good night—shaped by solitude, starlight, and the mental health valleys many listeners know well. We get two live originals, including Sail Away and a wink-filled ode sparked by a dinghy upgrade, and we explore the sound he’s carving: Gulf Coast Country, where Texas outlaw grit meets Florida sandbar ease and Louisiana rhythm.
We chart the next legs together: a Texas Gulf Coast run, the Freeport-to-Freeport plan from Texas to the Bahamas, and a bigger vision to make Galveston’s Strand a true music harbor, much like Key West once became for Trop Rock. Along the way are marinas that trade slips for songs, anchorages that become pop-up venues, and a community—his “boat crew”—that meets him at the pier like family. If a stage falls through, he’ll play the foredeck; if the weather turns, he trims for the ride and keeps the show on course.
If you love sailing stories, coastal country, and the grit it takes to turn a dream into a charted route, this one’s for you. Tap follow, share with a friend who needs a sea breeze and a chorus, and leave a review so more sailors and music lovers can find the show.
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Capn Tinsley (00:05):
Welcome back to the Salty Podcast, streaming to
you live from the beautifulFlorida Keys.
My guest tonight is CaptainMatt, a sailor who found his
stride on the water and hisvoice through music, even
turning his sailboat into atouring bus along the Gulf
Coast.
He built a solid career infamily life, but music never
really left.
Then one TikTok live on thedare lit the spark and a
(00:28):
community formed around hiscoastal inspired songs.
Now he's all in, blendingsailing and music with sailing
vessel Criola as his tour bus.
And we're even gonna hear acouple of his original songs
that he's gonna sing livetonight that carry that coastal
vibe.
Before we toss the lines onthis episode, please like,
subscribe, and share this videoso I can continue sharing these
(00:51):
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(01:15):
if I say so myself.
And the word sailor is uhwritten down the sleeve,
identifying you instantly as asailor, not just a voter.
I'm Captain Tinsley aboardSalty Abandon and Island Packet
320, currently in the FloridaKeys, and this is episode 83.
Please help me welcome CaptainMatt.
Welcome, Matt.
Captain Matt (01:38):
How are you doing?
Capn Tinsley (01:39):
How was that introduction?
Did that kind of sum you up alittle summary of you?
Captain Matt (01:44):
Absolutely.
You did a fantastic job.
Thank you so much.
Capn Tinsley (01:47):
Fabulous.
So we I didn't know who youwere, and I hadn't talked to you
until just about five or tenminutes ago, but I met you in
the Sailors uh Roundup onTikTok.
I was invited to the group.
You were a speaker, and yousaid something like, Hey, let's
do a podcast.
I was like, Okay, great.
And so and you sent me to youryour uh your your website and it
(02:09):
and it's got all kinds of goodinformation.
You've got a great story.
Um, and I do have somequestions, but uh let's start
since it is a sailing podcast.
Um, I would like to know aboutyour boat.
Captain Matt (02:22):
Everybody wants to know about my boat.
Capn Tinsley (02:25):
Sure.
Tell us about it.
What what is it, what brand,what year, how long is it, all
that, what model, all thatstuff.
Captain Matt (02:32):
So I sail, so I alright, so kind of little
backstory.
I originally chartered a Lagoon46 and because I was thinking
about buying it, and um, and Ifound out that it was way too
big of a boat for me, uh, forwhat I was trying to do.
And uh I ended up uh kind ofsaying I'm gonna I'm gonna go
smaller, and uh because I wanteda solo sale.
(02:55):
I didn't want to have a bunchof people going because I wanted
to, you know, do individualtype situations.
So I ended up going a fan, afriend and supporter, uh reached
out to me and said, I'm aboutto give you the biggest offer uh
that you won't think is true.
Uh, but I'm willing to sell youmy Gemini, my 2002 Gemini Um
105 MC, and um, which is about a35 foot uh by 14 catamaran.
(03:22):
And um, and I think it's gonnabe perfect for what you're
trying to accomplish by going upand down the Gulf Coast.
Uh, and I'll do it for about atenth of the price of what it's
worth.
Wow.
And I was like, Are you kiddingme?
And he's like, Yeah, and Isaid, Yes, it definitely sounds
too good to be true.
What's wrong with it?
He goes, Nothing.
I my wife and I, we we lived inTampa area, and we're kind of
(03:46):
reverse snowbirds that we wantto move up to Tennessee, and we
just don't have a place for itanymore.
And I love your vision, I lovewhat you're doing, and I want to
contribute to it becauseCaptain Matt needs a boat to
sail around and sing on.
Capn Tinsley (04:02):
Uh and do you live on the boat full time?
Captain Matt (04:05):
No, I do not.
So, I mean, I I I have a housein Houston, um, and then I use
the sailboat.
Like a matter of fact, thefamily and I are going as soon
as this interview is over,family and I are going to the
boat for the weekend and uh inand going hanging out at our lot
that we own in Freeport, whereI keep the boat, and then but I
do live on it when I'm touring.
(04:26):
Um, it's it's just like anymusician who has a tour bus,
that's their home when they'reout on the road.
Well, this is my home when I'mout performing.
Capn Tinsley (04:35):
Yeah, so I when I heard you say that in uh the
sailors roundup, that I wasenvisioning that you were going
past I live in Orange Beach,Gulf Shores, Orange Beach,
Alabama.
I'm in the Keys right now, butthat's where I live.
Captain Matt (04:49):
I played Florabama.
I love Oh really?
It's it's a great, it's a greatplace to be, especially if
you're a country musician.
Capn Tinsley (04:55):
Right, right.
And uh and how far do you godown?
What what areas do you tour?
Captain Matt (05:01):
Uh well, so when I first bought the boat, he was
in Tampa.
So I set up a tour to sail backto Texas, and um the crazy
thing about that is I had Ithink we had 22 different stops
that we're gonna stop, you know,because it takes a while to
sell, you know.
And and then I didn't want tosell a boat that I had not been
(05:24):
on for a while across the Gulf.
And so I said, okay, I'm gonnamake one every day or or every
two days, I'm gonna make a stop,and then I'm gonna find a place
and I'm gonna perform.
And I had a whole list ofeverything.
And two days before we weregoing to launch the boat off a
dry dock, Hurricane Helene camein.
And and and we were so it's asa matter of fact, the the the
(05:49):
marina said, Oh yeah, y'all canstay on the boat, we'll launch
you as soon as the hurricane'sover.
Because none of us where wasit?
Capn Tinsley (05:55):
What marina?
Captain Matt (05:57):
Oh, you had to ask me it.
Capn Tinsley (05:59):
What is the was it in St.
Pete?
Were you getting work done?
Captain Matt (06:02):
No, no, no, it was north.
Um, it was north of Bradington.
Um, what's that little smallisland there?
And I cannot remember the nameof the marina.
Capn Tinsley (06:11):
Was it safe harbor?
Um, was it a safe harbor inBraidington or that may have
been it?
Captain Matt (06:17):
Safe harbor, but but it was it was it wasn't in
Bradington, it was on the otherside of the yes, yes, yes.
Capn Tinsley (06:23):
Yeah, there's uh it used to be Jimmy Buffett's
one particular harbor there.
And um now it's uh I can'tthink I love that marina.
Yeah, it's very nice.
It has nice, does it havereally nice floating docks and
everything?
Captain Matt (06:36):
Uh this one, this one's a DIY because one of the
reasons I wanted to have thatDIY situation is because I've
owned boats for pretty much mywhole life.
I had power boats, and I I'mprobably the only boat owner
that you would ever know thatgets sad when he sells a boat,
but I've always sold it forprofit.
(06:58):
And uh, because I'll buy I'llbuy boats and then I'll upgrade
them and fix them and then turnaround and sell them.
So I probably did like 20 or 30boats like that in my lifetime.
Um, but it and it did a lot ofoffshore fishing, charter.
I mean, I really am a captain,charter captain, stuff like
that, where you take peopleoffshore, and um, and then I I
(07:18):
honestly just got tired of thejust constant boom, boom, going
out and fishing.
Uh, and I wanted to go from 40knots to six knots, and that's
that's why I started looking atsailing and loved it.
I cannot believe I haven't doneit sooner.
Capn Tinsley (07:33):
Oh, I'm glad to hear that.
You need to get one of theseshirts and identify as a sailor.
Captain Matt (07:40):
It is it is so much fun, and and then and then
not only that, but you know, Ithat whole trip that I was
telling you that we're comingback.
So I got hit in HurricaneHelene, yeah, and and um and the
water surge came up at themarina and nearly took us off
the blocks.
It was that high.
Oh my gosh! And I'm so imaginebeing surrounded by much larger
(08:03):
kill boats.
So you and you're on acatamaran, which is you're
obviously you know shorter tothe ground.
I knew I was gonna float firstand I had nowhere I could go.
I was literally gonna pay youknow, pinball with all these
other boats as we're movingaround.
And I was on the boat, so uh,so we we kind of made this whole
spiderweb situation with linewhere we were tying to other
(08:25):
boats and tying everything thatwas fixed just so we could keep
it in the center, and we keptwatching the water go up and up
and up, and then all of asudden, about midnight, the tide
started going down, and it waslicking literally, you could
feel it licking the bottom ofthe boat.
And um, so anyhow, thathappened, and but we did launch
(08:46):
a couple of days later, and wehad to cancel about half of the
tour because all the places weredamaged, they were cold, yeah,
and so it it we didn't reallyget to start performing until we
got to carabel, and then onceonce we got to where'd you go in
carabel?
Uh the uh the I think it wascalled Carabel Marina.
What is I can't remember?
You're asking me.
(09:06):
This is I can barely sorry.
Capn Tinsley (09:08):
I'm sorry.
I remember yeah, I told you I'mnot gonna ask you anything you
don't know because you're it'sabout you.
I'm sorry.
I was like, I know all thatarea really well, that's why I'm
asking.
Captain Matt (09:17):
I so imagine it's that marina.
So if you go all the way to thevery end of the inlet, it's
that marina to the right.
Capn Tinsley (09:25):
They have the moorings, the moorings take care
of them.
Captain Matt (09:28):
Yeah, the moorings.
Capn Tinsley (09:29):
That's what I like to say.
Yeah, yeah.
Captain Matt (09:31):
So love, I love that place, and yeah, it was
really funny because so I camethere and they're like, Oh,
yeah, he's like, tie-ups.
She's like, Are you gonna do aconcert first tonight?
And I said, Absolutely.
And so right you know, rightthere at that little shop, they
set me up on the porch and had20, 30 people there, and we had
a nice little beautiful intimateconcert.
Capn Tinsley (09:48):
Now, did they pay you or did you just do it for
free?
Captain Matt (09:51):
We we had some exchanges and tie-ups, you know,
overnight stays and stuff likethat.
So that that that was kind oftheir compensation to me as
saying, hey, we're gonna let youstay, you know, for slip fee or
something like that.
So, because we we definitelywanted to do that, and and and I
it wasn't an initially theintention, um, but there were so
(10:12):
many marinas who are saying,absolutely, we would love for
you to come entertain us becauseI don't I don't know if you
would think this way, butimagine you probably see the
exact same thing over and overand over again if you work at a
marina, so you're always gonnawant something new and fresh,
and so they're really nice inthere too, they're very
welcoming.
I love them to death.
(10:34):
Uh matter of fact, I I shouldhave worn the shirt tonight
because I ended up getting oneof their shirts, you know, where
it talks about the crossing andeverything because uh that was
a forced crossing because I wasplanning on stopping, but we had
to go non-stop for three daysfrom Tampa all the way to
Carapel.
Capn Tinsley (10:48):
And then you went um, then you went up the
intercoastal as far as you can.
What's your what's your uh youryour height of your mast?
Captain Matt (10:56):
It is 38 foot.
Capn Tinsley (10:58):
Oh, you're good.
Captain Matt (10:59):
Yeah, so so I but I still was out in in the open
water until I got to I guessuma, Louisiana.
So I so we but we were stoppingyou have to, sure.
Yeah, we were stopped we werewe were stopping every other
day.
So we would you know we'd go 24hours or you know, whatever and
(11:22):
do a you know a full day sale,it do it do a night sale and
then go to the next.
So so like the next stop wasPanama City, and then after
Panama City, we went to Destin.
And then after Destin, we wentto Orange, you know, Orange
Beach and or or Perdito Key iswhere we actually stop.
And then after Perdito Key, weanchored just outside of Angel
(11:43):
Island, and and so I so we wealways had like you know these
two-day trips where because Ijust didn't want to get out
there, and that in the three-daytrip from Tampa to Carabao, we
had a just the craziest windsituation because Milton was
behind us and they was pushing20 to 30 foot waves, you had to
get out of the way, and and wewere trying to get out of it as
(12:06):
fast as possible, and I had agust of wind, I have no idea
where it came from, because wewere totally, you know, we were
totally getting it off thethree.
That's where we were gettingit, and then all of a sudden it
came from the uh we came fromthe six or excuse me, from the
nine.
So my mast went oh like that.
(12:28):
And as soon as it soon as itcame back, you heard you heard
my main cell go it sound like azipper and just tore the whole
thing off.
And um, and so I literally, youknow, I I had to use the jib to
sell the rest of the or motorsale uh for about 75% of the
trip because of what happenedthere.
And you what a way to startthis whole thing.
Capn Tinsley (12:52):
It was horrible, and uh you never know what
you're gonna get up in that bigbin.
Captain Matt (12:58):
Yeah, so and the the crazy, so and I love that it
had a beautiful track, right?
Uh on on it was like this uh,you know, I I don't I some sort
of poly type track made itreally easy to bring the mane up
and everything else on it.
It was an addition to the boatthan what Jim Knight had.
And but it would he had had itfor so long, it kind of was
(13:19):
starting to dry rot.
And just that one, I mean,imagine you know how much torque
is on a you know on a cell whenit's when it's full, and um,
and so and then for it to gofrom one side to the other like
that.
I mean, it it just knocked itall down.
So I and then I had to orderthe track, and then or then to
order the track, they custommake it, and so so it I couldn't
(13:40):
just overnight go to Caribbeanand had it there for me.
So it took about you know threeor four months to actually when
you got back, when you got toTexas.
Well, I I did stop in Louisianafor a little bit because I've I
have in-laws there and had hadit there about so okay.
Capn Tinsley (13:57):
Well, Mike uh Wack, who lives in Orange Beach,
uh, he we're gonna talk abouthis music.
He's even gonna play live, anduh well, I figure we'd do it at
30 minutes and then right at theend, we'll do two songs that
he's he he has chosen.
And Mike says, nice plug forOrange Beach, and Island Spirit
says Annapolis made cat, Geminicats are cool.
Captain Matt (14:18):
Yes, absolutely.
Capn Tinsley (14:20):
I think there's one next door to me right now.
Captain Matt (14:23):
You know, the owner um of of the one that made
Gemini, he actually selled itacross the Atlantic, and I can't
I can't think of his name rightoff hand, right?
But but he crashed it took itacross the Atlantic and he said
he would never do it again.
But he but he's that capable,and trust me, I can guarantee
(14:44):
you it is that capable becauseof the winds and the in this and
the way I mean I was literallysurfing 30-foot waves coming
coming into uh pensacola thatone time.
It was just crazy.
Capn Tinsley (14:55):
Did you go on Pensacola Pass?
Captain Matt (14:57):
Went through went through the pass and then went
through Perdito Key, and that'swhere we stopped right there in
Perdido Key.
Capn Tinsley (15:03):
Uh Mike says, I'm watching this guy's interesting.
Okay, so let's go back to thequestions.
Um what first pulled youtowards sailing?
We are gonna talk about music,but we this is a sailing
podcast.
So um what what first pulledyou towards sailing?
And you said you um how longhave you sailed?
Like you said you had sailedbefore.
(15:26):
How long is that?
Captain Matt (15:27):
So it's we're probably going on three years
now of being a sailing captain,and um I I I like I said I've
I've been a maritime captain fora long time as a charter, so it
was it was quite honestly.
I I I'd hate to say this, butbut it it's out is actually easy
(15:51):
transition for you do all thedoor plotting and I mean exactly
and so rules of the road andthen and then not only that, but
the other thing that was crazyis everything's so much slower,
and so you have time to reactwhen you're sailing.
When you have something goingwrong, when you're at 40 knots,
(16:11):
you don't, you've got to reactquickly.
And uh, I knew I was justgetting way too old to start
reacting to that.
Capn Tinsley (16:19):
Well, it looks like everybody on speedboats
going around Orange Beach,they're just their hair,
nobody's talking, they're justgoing so fast, and and
everybody's you know, but whenyou're on a sailboat, the
journey is well, you're you'resailing is the journey.
Captain Matt (16:37):
I mean, that but and there's nothing wrong with
that.
Capn Tinsley (16:39):
Whereas I can you always play it safe, don't you
like to say a safe answer?
I don't know how many powerboaters are watching this.
So um, how does uh okay, howdoes being on the water
influence your mindset, whetheryou're thinking about writing or
just being present?
Um, what thinking, writing, orjust being present or playing
music, what does that do?
(17:00):
What does being on the water dofor you with your sound?
Captain Matt (17:04):
So I have this tendency um that when I'm out
sailing, that I literallyprobably write three to five
songs every night.
And uh and and a lot of it hasto do with the surroundings.
The greatest feeling in theworld, if you're watching this
(17:25):
wherever you are right now, thegreatest feeling in the world is
to watch the sun come up or towatch the sunset when you're
sailing.
It's I I don't even I can'teven explain the euphoria of
what you feel, and and then andthen you've got those dark
nights when you're on that nightwatch, you know, making the
crossings and everything else,and you're absolutely alone.
(17:48):
And sometimes if the moon's notout and you can't see the
stars, you can't even see yourhand in front of your face.
And and then it's just a it's avery, very isolated place, and
you have a lot of thoughts and alot of process.
Um, so I you I I instead ofusing that in a negative way, I
(18:08):
use that in a positive way towrite songs that could help and
affect people that maybe feellike that with a mental health
ill issue or something likethat, uh, to have the songs
resonate to them as well.
Capn Tinsley (18:21):
Interesting.
Yes.
Um, so Island Spirit says,Amen.
Sunrise at sea is the best.
Captain Matt (18:28):
With a sundowner, you gotta have a sundowner, or
it's not it's not worth it.
Capn Tinsley (18:33):
Um, so uh Mike or or Hayden, can you tell me if
I'm echoing out there?
I hear just once in a while, Ihear an echo.
Um, okay, sailing to the gig.
Was it right uh like arrivingat the performance by boat
instead of car or van?
Does it change the energy ofthe show?
Captain Matt (18:50):
Oh, absolutely.
I think that's probably thebest part about it is you know,
people can see me pull up andthey're waiting.
The boat, what I my fan base iscalled the boat crew, the boat
crew's waiting for me to turnup.
I love it, it's so much fun.
It's it's it's much better thanpulling up in a bus or you
know, pulling up in a you know,going by plane somewhere because
(19:11):
it's not a quick process, asyou know, when you pull into
marina, and uh that's the bestpart about the Gemini.
Capn Tinsley (19:18):
And you're praying that nothing goes wrong so you
can get there.
Captain Matt (19:21):
That's the best part about the Gemini, by the
way, is is it's 14 foot wide, soI literally can go to any
marina and pull into a regularslip and not have to wait for a
cat slip.
So uh, so that is so helpful uhto you know do the process and
everything.
But it's but it in the but theylove it, they absolutely love
(19:43):
it that they can be there to seeme show up, and I love it too
because that's what's different.
This is that's what it's allabout is community and bringing
people together instead of justbeing some of this big country
music stars.
I don't ever want to be that, Iwant to be the guy.
That it promotes the lifestyle,not promote me, if that makes
(20:04):
sense.
Capn Tinsley (20:06):
Love it.
Okay.
Um, we kind of already saidthis, but how often do musical
ideas hit you while you'resailing?
And do you ever stop andcapture them right there aboard
Criola?
So you just said that that youcould write three songs in a
night.
Captain Matt (20:24):
Three to five at least.
And I mean, they may not begreat songs, but and and then
and sometimes those three orfive may become one.
You never know.
I mean, it but I'm alwaysconstantly writing, and I'm it
that's a lot of the reasons whyI play ukulele instead of a
guitar, because I want it rightbeside me, especially if I'm
yeah, that is easier to have itin the cockpit.
Capn Tinsley (20:44):
So Connie Slade says, Hey Captain Matt.
I don't know if you know, yeah,I sure do.
Is she part of the boat crew?
Captain Matt (20:52):
Yeah, absolutely.
Absolutely.
Capn Tinsley (20:54):
Cool.
Hope your fans all come in.
Um, all right.
Okay, when you're movingbetween gigs or destinations,
what does a typical day aboardCriola look like?
Captain Matt (21:08):
Uh, you know, it depends on who's with me.
Capn Tinsley (21:11):
Um, yeah, how many people go with you?
Captain Matt (21:13):
Well, it depends.
Uh so usually I have at leastone because I'm gonna need some
sleep time, especially afterperformance.
Um, and so there's at leastone.
But some I mean, I love myband, but not all of them are
you know boaters, and and theycan't they can't deal with the
what what it takes to uh to todeal with the the rocking that
(21:35):
we all know, which is soothingto us, but it's not for them.
So they'll actually take a busand they'll meet me at location
or something like that whereverwe're going.
Capn Tinsley (21:43):
And it's also too slow for some people.
Captain Matt (21:46):
Yeah, yeah, and it is definitely without a doubt,
it is definitely too slow uh forthem.
And uh so I tip and the Geminiis not huge.
I mean, we have three staterooms, uh, but one of them is
really a locker, you know, justto keep our music equipment and
everything else in it.
And then the it's so you've gottwo, and then you can make the
(22:07):
parlor into another bedroom.
So two, three maxed uh is whatI typically travel with.
Capn Tinsley (22:15):
So we're getting close to you singing a song.
We got about eight minutes, butuh let's see.
Um what what's a challengingmoment at sea that taught you
something about sailing or evenabout yourself?
That's a deep question.
I I I let me let me say thistoo.
Let me add this.
(22:35):
Was there a moment when yourealized sailing and music
weren't two separate pathsanymore, but one lifestyle?
That's a good question.
Captain Matt (22:42):
Yeah, definitely, definitely it was it it was
coming into Louisiana um in forfor pretty much the final leg
before I was gonna take a breakfor a couple of months, um and
and not sell the rest to untillater to Texas.
But that one, that moment, thatsituation that I had, um they
(23:08):
had had a hurricane about threeor four months before, and every
one of the buoys was not in thechannel at all.
I mean, talking a hundred footover.
Capn Tinsley (23:22):
Where is this in Caribbean?
Captain Matt (23:24):
No, no, in Louisiana.
Capn Tinsley (23:26):
Oh, in Louisiana, that's right, you did say that.
Captain Matt (23:28):
And so, and so it was and so when you're looking
for all of those buoys, all thenavigational buoys, and they're
not there, but you know you'rein the channel, you know for a
fact you're in a channel, and umI learned a lot from working
with the guy that was with mebecause I asked him, I said,
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Look, these buoys are not wherethey are.
We're supposed to be.
I know I'm in the channel, soplease just look for the buoys.
And as soon as and we werecoming in at dark too, and it's
just that's that's where allthose those uh rigs are.
Yes, yes.
Capn Tinsley (24:08):
I've heard about that, and they're not all lit.
Captain Matt (24:10):
No, not all of them are lit.
And so I said, I need you to assoon as you see a buoy, you
need to spotlight it.
Boom, spotlight it so that wayI know it where it is, and I can
either you know make adeviation or something like
that, just so I don't hit thosebuoy, and they had just been
tossed around and they were justthey had moved, dude.
They had moved, I mean, everyone of them just not in the
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place they were supposed to be,and they hadn't reset them yet.
So, so and I remember I had ajust conniption fit because
there was three that literallymaybe a foot away from the boat,
you know, that's how close wecame to him, and not one time
did he say anything, and I wentoff on him.
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I really, really did, and Ilearned, you know what, that's
not a good captain.
A good captain needs toeducate, needs to understand,
and and and and try to try to beas patient as possible because
they're just as stressed out asyou are, and and there is a huge
and and then that was the otherthing that really really
mattered to me is I said, man,the worst thing is when you show
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your emotion and you show yourstress, you're not gonna help
your crew because now they'regonna see it.
So I learned a lot uh from thatparticular passage the most.
Um, and and then, but I alsofelt like man, I can't.
I've already had my main sailthat they tore down.
I now and and I was like, Idon't know, I you know, I don't
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know if I want any other hardlessons.
I want to easy, ease my way inback into Texas.
Capn Tinsley (25:50):
I get it.
Yeah, I mean I can't make itfrom Orange Beach to here
without repairs, it just it justgoes along with it.
Yeah, just bring the creditcard.
Um, all right.
Um so you I like that youblended two two of your
passions.
Um where do you see yoursailing and music journey
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heading next?
Captain Matt (26:13):
Well, so we have spent a lot of time over the
past two or three monthsrecording a new album, and that
new album will be coming outaround the same time everybody
wants to get on the water in thespring.
So we want to be the soundtrackof summer uh with that album.
And with that being said, thatmeans we're gonna start doing
some more touring.
(26:34):
So we're gonna do a Texas GulfCoast tour uh up and down.
And and then once once we dothat, uh they're the next
biggest one is what we call theFreeport to Freeport tour.
And the reason why it'sFreeport to Freeport is because
where my boat is is in Freeport,Texas.
That's where I keep it.
And um, we are gonna we'regonna do festivals and
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everything else along the wayfrom Freeport, Texas, and go all
the way around the horn and getand end in Freeport, Bahamas.
So there's that's it's gonna bea a really, really cool
situation a couple of years fromnow, obviously not this year,
but uh we're really, reallyexcited about that.
It's gonna be a lot of fun.
And um and it it we'll goinland, we're gonna bring the
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Gulf to you guys too.
Um that way we'll do someconcert, and that's a lot of the
what why we're doing is we'rewe're stopping, say, in
Louisiana, and then we'll go upto Jackson.
We'll go up to we'll we'll goup to Shreeport, we'll do shows
there, and then come back to theboat, and then go to the next
location.
Capn Tinsley (27:36):
Is this the one um that we're talking about?
Or is this a path?
Okay, yeah, there's all thesecities in Texas, the Texas Gulf
Coast tour, and you're gonna gointo Louisiana too.
Captain Matt (27:47):
Yes, yeah.
So the Freeport to FreeportTour will be after that.
So we're gonna go down thereand back, as or we're starting
in in South Padre, and thenwe'll work in our way back.
Uh, and then once we come back,we'll do we'll do the uh
Boathouse Music Festival inGalveston, which is around Labor
Day, and then go back in to theto the recording studio, and
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that's when we'll start theFreeport to Freeport tour.
Capn Tinsley (28:12):
And you can see on uh if you go to his website,
captainmatmusic.com, uh, he'sgot all the songs here.
Sail away, uh live from PerditoKey.
Look at that.
My new lover live from PerditoKey.
And uh there's a sand on ourboots.
I'll sail my ship alone, so youcan actually buy individual
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songs here on his website.
Captain Matt (28:34):
Now, or you can if you look at the top right
there, uh go, I don't know ifyou can see it from your angle,
but uh there there is a link touh my Spotify YouTube music um
in in Apple Tunes.
I think it's to the right.
You can't really see it fromthere.
I don't know, but uh but thatthat way you can get that and um
in and talk about where you canbuy them right here.
(28:56):
No, at the very, very top ofthe the screen, you should I
don't I don't see it on your Isee home about booking shows
news tip jar.
It should be to the right ofcontact.
Uh it should show you all ofthe links right there.
I don't know why it's notshowing that.
That's weird.
Capn Tinsley (29:11):
Yeah.
But anyway, you can check outhis website.
And all right.
Well, are you ready to sing asong?
Captain Matt (29:21):
I yeah, I guess I definitely can.
So I so I'll tell you, youknow, you were talking about
what made you want to get tothat situation where you wanted
to sell.
Well, I actually kind of putthat in writing uh to a song,
and this was uh during theprimary, um I guess two years
ago, and um where they weretrying to elect who was going to
(29:43):
run for president, and uh and Iwas just sitting there watching
TV.
I'm like, I am so sick ofseeing politics on TV.
Can you just show me a baseballgame or just show me a
basketball game or somethinglike that?
And then it kind of inspired meto sing this song or to write
the song called Sail away.
So that's what I'm gonna writeright now.
Capn Tinsley (30:02):
Let me let me ask you one question.
Mike says, I'm in cell range, Ido Pandora, usually Jimmy
Buffett.
Does he have a Pandora channel?
Captain Matt (30:09):
Yes.
If you if you search CaptainMatt and the boat crew, Captain
Matt and the Boat Crew, you willfind all of my location.
I'm on every music streamingsite that's out there.
Capn Tinsley (30:19):
Okay, so maybe not Pandora, huh?
Or really?
Okay.
All right.
Captain Matt (30:25):
Yeah.
All right.
All right, here we go.
This is called Sail Away, so Ihope you guys enjoy it.
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Cycle repetition of work days.
And leave a word.
(32:01):
He started screaming politicalfeet.
(32:24):
I let it Lily had a touch withthe night.
(32:53):
So I vote for that night.
It's a public show and it's verythere's probably younger
people, so I'm not gonna saythat.
It's time to sail away toanother day.
(33:17):
It's time to sail away andleave my words behind my bread
to live on time.
(33:37):
So let's relax as time goes byLittle Slamp.
Close to being empty time tosail away.
(34:09):
I hear I need capping, I needyou to clap to another place.
Let's talk to me and feel whenI'm not a face.
It's time to send away my wordsbeyond the green time to live
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on the town.
It's time to sell the word.
Capn Tinsley (34:52):
Woo woo woo woo woo woo Connie says he's she's
clapping, she's giving emojis.
Uh uh Island Spirits do we sayall the way every year?
Great song, hashtag IslandSpirit.
So I just pulled up your yourum let me pull it up.
Your TikTok.
(35:13):
So tell us that story.
What happened?
You said it was a dare.
You should so someone saw aguitar in the back behind you uh
on TikTok and dared you toplay.
Captain Matt (35:26):
So the crazy thing about so I I'm an engineer.
That's that's what I I yeah, anengineering firm.
And um, I was kind of in a downpoint in my life uh after the
pandemic and everything else.
Hey boat crew.
Oops, sorry.
I got an interview tonight.
Capn Tinsley (35:44):
I just want to bring that up because it has my
salty podcast on it on Salt.
Captain Matt (35:49):
It's called the Salty Podcast, and it's for S
slash V Salty Abanion.
So if you it's fine that it'scalled the Salty Podcast, search
for it on YouTube.
So, anyhow, um so I uh my mompassed away in 2020, and and I I
(36:12):
kind of felt like this um adultlike orphan, if that makes
sense.
I didn't have my parentsanymore.
I mean, I I obviously I had mywife and children and
everything, but I was kind of inthis point of like, I'm the
matriarch now, it's crazy, it'sweird, and um and or or
(36:34):
patriarch, I guess uh notmatriarch, but uh but but either
way, I just I I it was a hardtransition for me, and um I was
kind of like at the point of mycareer where I was I was really
enjoying what I did for aliving, and and and I I had been
a previous musician when I wasin my 20s, but I fell in love
(36:55):
and that didn't that it at thetime it wasn't paying very well,
so I had to find a real job,real career to raise kids.
Um, so somebody said, Hey man,why don't you go on TikTok just
to kind of build yourself up andhave some fun and talk to
strangers?
I'm like, Okay, maybe talk tostrangers, I'll give it a and so
so that's what I ended up goinglive on TikTok because I had
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enough people.
That was when you had to have athousand people to go live on
TikTok, and so I but I hadenough people, and I was in the
middle of cleaning out mycloset, and one of my guitars
was kind of sitting in thebackground in the case, and
somebody on the live saw it andthey said, Oh, you play.
And I'm like, No, I hadn'tplayed in like 20 years, as you
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know.
This you know, we we weretalking about this between with
you.
I was like, No, I haven't Idon't haven't played this in 20
years.
So I and I said, and they andthey as always, TikTok can get
you in trouble because they kepttrying to push me over the
edge.
By I was like, all right,here's the deal.
If I get a hundred heart me'sthen I'll do it.
(37:59):
Well, I did, and they werelike, Are you serious?
And so I had to do it, andended up right singing a I think
it was a Garth Brooks song orsomething like that.
Um and they went crazy over it.
I'm like, what?
This is really and um and thenI said, Okay, y'all want me to
sing more?
And they of course they wantedme to sing more, and and um, and
(38:22):
so I started just that becamemy stick on, you know, and um
and and just like any othersongwriter out there, if you
walk away from it, and then allof a sudden you put a uh an
instrument back in their hands,they're gonna start writing
songs again eventually.
And it's exactly what startedhappening to me is that
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songwriter mode went into fullforce 11.
And uh, and then I startedwriting songs, and I think I've
written at least 150 since 2000uh uh 2023.
Capn Tinsley (38:59):
That's when this this event happened was 2023.
Yeah, and had you played thatguitar in the 20 years or so you
did it cold, you just went liveand did it.
Captain Matt (39:12):
Yeah, I just I and I I I was like respect,
respect, respect.
But the crazy thing is, Cap, isum my voice was totally
different than it was when I wasin my twenties.
Capn Tinsley (39:26):
You're older, it's probably deeper, right?
Captain Matt (39:28):
Yeah, it was deeper and it it seemed to
resonate more with the audience.
And you know, I a lot of peoplesay it's like they well, my
favorite quote is from a radioDJ who said, It's like if Jimmy
Buffett and Wayland Jennings hada love child, it's yeah.
Capn Tinsley (39:46):
That makes sense.
Yeah.
Well, that's perfect for countryand for Gulf Coast vibe
country, or what do they callit?
They call it drop drop rock ortrop rock, but I'll be honest
with you.
Captain Matt (39:57):
I'm trying to coin a different phrase.
And it I'm trying to call itGulf Coast Country because I
feel like Gulf Coast Country hasa blend of a lot of things.
If you go from Texas toLouisiana to Alabama to Florida,
yeah, Panhandle, Florida,you're gonna hear different
styles of music, but it's allreflective.
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They're singing about the placethat they live.
Capn Tinsley (40:22):
I have let me say this.
The guy who did um I'm sorry,I'm blanking out.
What's that group?
They kind of did country rap.
Captain Matt (40:32):
What was oh what was it?
Capn Tinsley (40:36):
And then and Brian.
Captain Matt (40:39):
Are you talking about big and rich?
Capn Tinsley (40:41):
No God, what help me out here, y'all.
Um they were they were huge,they were part of the Bro
Country thing that happened.
They were huge for 10 years.
What is their name?
It was it was yes, Georgia,Florida Line.
So I never I thought, okay,it's kind of like eating fast
food.
You mean you have one or twosongs, and then you're like, ah,
(41:02):
I can't listen to that anymore.
But Brian Kelly, who was kindof a he played second banana in
that group, he came out with analbum.
Captain Matt (41:12):
Yeah, I remember that.
Capn Tinsley (41:14):
Oh my god, I still love it.
And it and I found it onYouTube.
I was just kind of looking forwhat you're talking about.
I was trying to because everytown has like a Jimmy Buffett,
you know, like uh ours is uhBrett Burns and Gulf Shores.
And he always says, I I sing, Iplay, I sing about the the life
Jimmy Buffett.
I I live this the life thatJimmy Buffett sings about.
(41:36):
He has a song like that.
And um, if it's snowbirdseason, why can't we shoot him?
You know, so but um BrianKelly, oh my gosh, he's part of
that.
And I I guess you I forgot thename of the album, but it was
great.
So I think that's what you'retalking about.
Captain Matt (41:52):
Well, and I for me, I like we're trying to coin
it.
I mean, just like Jimmy Buffettpretty much made Trop Rock, you
know, Capital in Key West,we're trying to develop the same
thing uh here in Texas andGalveston, um, where we want to
have people be come todestination and hear the music
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that influences them and bringpeople from all over the Gulf
Coast to come and perform.
That's why we're doing that'swhen we're doing the festival in
a few years, um, and and andreally just kind of make it the
home of the Nashville of theSouth, per se.
Recording studios, all that's agreat place to do it.
Yeah, and it is.
And it in the the cities behindit, we're we're really excited
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about that.
And and it and it is, if you'venever been to Galveston, and I
don't get paid for them sayingthis, I'm literally saying it
because I believe it.
If you've never been toGalveston to get on a cruise or
anything like that, and youhaven't been to the Strand,
that's what Nashville used to belike.
It where you see you literallygo from one room to another and
you're hearing different artiststhat are phenomenal, and
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they're performing rock, classicrock, concentrate.
You're talking about on musicrow, all the different yeah,
music it's just you know, but wecall it they call it the strand
in Galveston.
And so and and so it it wasit's that it's their music row,
and it's so phenomenal.
You have to go book a cruise.
Capn Tinsley (43:18):
Hopefully, they'll I don't I don't I don't do
cruises.
Captain Matt (43:21):
Well, I'm just I'm just saying everybody if you're
watching and you okay, okay, gocruise, go hang out the strand.
You'll probably see me therebecause I'll probably be
performing when I'm not on tour.
Um, and in and just enjoy it.
But that's what we wantGalveston to be.
And I heavily inspired inspiredby Jimmy Buffett, and and I see
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I saw what he did for Key West,and that's kind of my mission
to do the same thing for thepeople, not for me, for the
people, because I would muchrather it outlive me because I
only got maybe a couple 20 yearsleft on this world.
Who knows?
Capn Tinsley (43:56):
Oh well.
Um, all right, are you ready todo another song?
Captain Matt (44:00):
Uh yeah, so um I gotta I gotta introduce this one
because uh in the and you haveto I'm gonna shamelessly plug
this, okay?
So so we we're okay.
Capn Tinsley (44:09):
That's what we're here for.
Captain Matt (44:10):
We are eventually going to uh we're about to open
up the merchandise store on ourwebsite, uh, where you can get
your own.
I I don't know if you can seethe the there's a shirt behind
me right there.
There's that's that's yeah,that's a pretty cool logo, and
then you got the hat here, anduh so it's actually a CM and
then crew, which representsCaptain Matt and the boat crew.
Capn Tinsley (44:30):
Um, and we've got you're in the studio right now,
right?
Captain Matt (44:33):
In the studio, yeah, right now.
So yeah, so and then uh andwe've got all different
merchandise.
I mean, absolutely everything.
A cap, you know, you couldprobably wear this bikini, I
think it would be fantastic.
You've got you know, all kindsof things that uh that we're
doing that.
Capn Tinsley (44:51):
And now I'm working on that too, yeah.
Captain Matt (44:53):
It it matters a lot.
You know this better thananybody.
This is the greatest way youcan support your creators out
there.
If they've got merchandise, buyit because they can make money
to do what they want to do inlove that you're inspired by.
Capn Tinsley (45:06):
And I always put mine up there too, right there.
That's my Shopify.
Captain Matt (45:14):
So definitely, definitely support her and what
she's doing.
Thank you.
Capn Tinsley (45:18):
I'm I I take I'm in the red with this podcast.
I I spend money that I earn inreal estate on this podcast.
Captain Matt (45:25):
Yeah, yeah, I I get it, I completely understand.
Um, and and with that beingsaid, I I'm gonna give you a
special announcement that Ihaven't told anybody else.
Capn Tinsley (45:34):
Okay, let's hear it.
Captain Matt (45:35):
Okay, so you know, the older things get, they
don't work right, they don't dowhat they're supposed to do.
And that's the same problemwith my dinghy.
And well, hold on, let me justwhip it out and show you.
So that's the way it looks.
It's horrible.
(45:55):
And uh that's my dinghy pick.
All right, y'all don't screencapture it and spread it all
over, but that's my dinghy pick.
It's deflated and doesn't it'snot as firm as it used to be.
And uh, but but this is ametaphor.
But I will tell you, there is asavior out there for me, and we
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just had a partnership withthem, and it's any sailor that's
out there as you probably areusing their products, it's
called Manis Marine, and theymake anchors and bridles and
everything else.
Well, now they're making rigiddinghies for all of the sailors
out there, and they came to mysay they came to save me from my
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deflated dinghy, and so I willhave a much firmer dinghy with
that everybody can write on assoon as I get a chance to get
it.
Capn Tinsley (46:46):
This sounds like a song.
Captain Matt (46:47):
So, so anyhow, like deflated dinghy.
Capn Tinsley (46:50):
I mean, there's a song in there.
Make it a metaphor, make itfunny.
So, okay.
Captain Matt (46:59):
How about this?
Capn Tinsley (47:01):
You did write one.
Captain Matt (47:13):
Well, I got a little thing I must show.
It can take you anywhere youwant to go when the sun's
shining in the sky, so blue.
Just hop right on.
Let's change our view on thisday floating on the sea.
Come right with the breeze inthis boat with me.
(47:40):
It's nothing fancy with thislittle thing.
We can be free and both.
Your little engine we canbutter in home.
Spring it over here and let thegood times come.
(48:02):
We've all been with switchingand there is a moment.
The world's a little betterwhen you're on for a ride.
Floating on say come ride withgrease in this boat with me.
It's nothing fancy how much dogwith this little day we can be
(48:34):
free and vote.
I not go file, who reallycares?
Just you mean salt yet, coupledrinks, peach tunes, and so on
this boat.
So we're used to feel warm onthis day floating on the sea.
(48:59):
Come right with the breeze inthis boat.
It's nothing fancy or mustardwith this little thing.
We can be free and both.
(49:19):
So here's two sample, easy tofree on this little thing where
you need to be you by my side,no need for plans, just drifting
through life handing.
Capn Tinsley (49:47):
Woo! I really didn't know you were gonna sing
that song, even though I did Ido now remember seeing it in the
song list back there.
So Connie's over here puttinguh she says fire.
Captain Matt (50:04):
That's everybody likes likes to talk about my
duty, new duty.
I'm excited about it.
So I'm very proud of yourdinghy.
I am I'm very proud of it.
I mean, Mis Mana Serene, thankyou so much for doing that.
You're amazing.
Uh definitely go check outtheir products um if you're a
sailor.
(50:24):
And I'm sure you probably havesome manice stuff on your on
your boat as well.
It's it they're they're they'reTexas based and American made.
And they're they're they'rethey're they're amazing, they're
amazing products, and I am soglad that they're partnering
with us on this adventure.
Capn Tinsley (50:40):
We definitely like to support our American
company, so definitely.
All right, um, so let's see ifI have any more questions.
I'm down to rapid fire here.
Um okay, here's uh a fewquestions.
Rapid fire.
Marina or Anchorage?
Captain Matt (50:59):
Anchorage.
Capn Tinsley (51:01):
Okay, I like it.
Uh favorite port of call.
Captain Matt (51:08):
I you know what?
I can't I can't I can't chooseone.
There I love every one of themI've been to.
They're all unique.
I so so I can't say that I havemy favorite port of call.
Capn Tinsley (51:18):
I like I love Anchorages, but I also love
marinas.
There's just something aboutthem.
Captain Matt (51:22):
I know obviously we pull in a lot to perform, but
I love to be out at anchor andand uh just all you hear is the
licking of the boat, you know,at night, and you hear nothing
else.
Capn Tinsley (51:34):
You could do some good songwriting, huh?
Captain Matt (51:37):
Absolutely.
Capn Tinsley (51:40):
Okay, your go-to anchorage.
Captain Matt (51:45):
In Texas, we don't have a lot of anchorages,
unfortunately.
Um there are some that are onthe just outside of Kima, but
I'll tell you my favoriteanchorage was um an island that
was just off the coast ofAlabama, and I want to say it
(52:05):
was Angel Island, if I'm notmistaken.
And um, and we pulled into theAnchorage and there was a live
band performing at the countryclub, very, very close.
So we kind of felt like we hada free concert that night at
Anchorage.
It was really, really awesome.
I think that's the one thatstands out the most for me.
Capn Tinsley (52:26):
Do you think it's off the coast of Mississippi?
Captain Matt (52:29):
Yeah, you're probably right.
I mean, it's there it's rightthere on the edge.
It's right there on the edge.
And I'm trying to remember whatit is.
Capn Tinsley (52:37):
Dauphin Island?
Captain Matt (52:38):
Yes, that's what it is.
Dolphin Island.
Capn Tinsley (52:40):
Okay, all right.
That is off the coast ofAlabama.
I'm sorry, I'm having a littlecoughing fit.
So why don't you sing anothersong while I cough?
Okay, you really want to singanother song?
Yeah, all right.
Captain Matt (52:51):
So I tell you what, I will sing this song
here.
Um, and then she was asking alittle bit earlier about some of
the songs.
All right, I wrote thisspecific song um when I was
coming in and not sure I wasgonna live.
It was such a crazy trip.
And uh, all I could think aboutwas getting home to see my
(53:15):
wife, and I didn't want to justhug her, if you know what I
mean.
So that's why I ended upwriting this song.
It's called uh Rock the BoatBeen sailing so long, lose track
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of days with high over theoceans waves.
Hurricanes try to swallow theoil for the next last show every
(54:04):
for face as the ocean only darkplace with lights burn right,
but I'm dreaming of the way forme to night she was my dress
(54:30):
that drives me in time that'snot showing still when I find
the breed school She's fine,classical gay way to tie up to
(55:02):
this dog and rock the boat.
There you go, there's a littletease in it.
Capn Tinsley (55:20):
Awesome.
I heard it.
I heard what you wanted to do.
Okay, I got I got a couple morerapid fires.
Okay.
What what's the first song youplay when you settle in at the
helm?
Settle in it could be it couldbe like your playlist or so so
well so um I do a littlegrateful dead.
(55:44):
Ah, really?
Captain Matt (55:45):
Yeah, I definitely do a little grateful dead.
Um and then um but usually itlike I'll we'll play my song
Sail Away.
That will be the that's likethe departure song.
Capn Tinsley (55:57):
Yeah, it sets the mood, sets the vibe, it sets the
mood.
Captain Matt (56:00):
And then and then um, you know, I I I dig deep
into the the Texas Outlaws typestuff, the Wayland Jennings, the
Willie Nelsons, you know, um,you know, the the fat the the
four horsemen type situations.
So I listen to a lot of that.
Um but I think the mostimportant is is is is probably
(56:21):
Sailor.
Capn Tinsley (56:22):
That's the one that always will now do you play
it or do you play the the core?
Captain Matt (56:26):
Oh no no I push play paying attention to
everything the guitar in myhand.
Capn Tinsley (56:35):
You're not good leaving the marina while you're
playing.
Captain Matt (56:38):
No, no, no, we just I just I I mean I have the
uh the Garmin that that'sconnected to my you know stereo,
and I just push play on thatand boom, there you go.
Capn Tinsley (56:49):
Cool.
Okay, so um what is the nextplace, like a dream destination
you want to sail to, and thenplay music there too?
Captain Matt (56:57):
Where do you want to is this the Caribbean or I
that the so the Freeport toFreeport tour is my next goal as
I I want to be able to to sailback and get to the Bahamas, and
there's so many places ifyou've never been to the Bahamas
to just I'm on my way there,and and and I will tell you like
for me, the draft on my boatwhen my kills are swung up is 18
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inches.
Wow, I can get to places thatno one else can get to in the
Bahamas, and those are thereally hidden gems, and so I
want to do that and then keepworking my way down to as far as
Grenada um in performing atevery island stop that I can
possibly stop at.
Capn Tinsley (57:39):
Wow, when's this gonna happen?
Captain Matt (57:42):
You know, it depends on Boak Crew, and if
Vokru can support me and getthese recording outs, then it
it'll go faster than than uhthan later, you know.
I mean, that's that's the wholesituation.
Capn Tinsley (57:54):
So, where do they have to go to do that?
So they they need to go to yourwebsite and start there, and
then okay.
Captain Matt (58:00):
Okay, so we we are so right we're I just I don't
want to get caught up in thewhole Christmas thing, but in
the first of the year, we'regonna launch the merchandise,
we're gonna launch thecrowdfunding for the album, and
then we're gonna launch ourmemberships, uh, which are gonna
be really, really awesome.
So you can support me uh on asubscription base monthly, um,
which helps sustain us.
(58:21):
And the most important one isuh if you if you do like a
certain level, we give you apassport, and that passport is
your VIP to any concert that youcome to, gives you a front row
seat and the potential of goingbackstage when available.
So uh, so we're definitelygonna do stuff like that uh for
those supporters because thatmeans a lot to me, and uh that
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monthly income from them, youknow it's coming, they that kind
of helps you that's nice betterfor sure.
Capn Tinsley (58:51):
So you're gonna be able to slide up into
Georgetown and and just startplaying.
Captain Matt (58:56):
Yeah, absolutely.
Capn Tinsley (58:57):
Are you gonna pet play at the chat and chill or
you're gonna just play in theanchorage?
Captain Matt (59:01):
You know what?
We did the booking agent willfind places that want us to
play, and that's exactly what wedo.
And if we can't find a place,then I'll just literally play on
the front deck of my boat andlet all the other boats pull up
to me so when we can sing andperform and hang out and have
fun and drink as many margaritasas we possibly can.
Capn Tinsley (59:17):
That sounds awesome.
Okay, let's see.
We have a comment.
Um Bahamas follow salty abandonthere.
Captain Matt (59:25):
There you go.
Capn Tinsley (59:26):
We gotta do that Texas tour first, yeah.
Captain Matt (59:29):
Yeah, so but and that's the but you know, here's
the best part, and you know thiscat.
The best part about this is welike we met through the Sailors
Roundtable on TikTok, and I loveit that we're all over the
world, we may not be in the sameplace.
I love it that we can connectlike this and be able to have
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the relationship and and helpeach other out and give each
other tips and tricks, but whenwe do actually show up in the
same spot.
It's like family, and we're soexcited to hang out with each
other because we've known eachother for so long.
And it just it's a family.
It really is.
And that's exactly what my boatcareer is to me is no matter
where I go, I always feel like Igot family that's waiting for
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me to arrive.
Capn Tinsley (01:00:14):
That's very cool.
And I um, you know, like I Itold you I'm on my way to the
Bahamas, and there are peoplethat I've interviewed on this
podcast because I've had beendoing this for two years.
The podcast, I've had thesailing channel for 10 years,
but the podcast, and I'm lookingforward to actually meeting
them in person.
Captain Matt (01:00:32):
Oh, yeah.
I mean, that's that's the Ifeel like I know them.
Yeah, and and so helpful.
I mean, everybody who's in thesailing community is so helpful
to help they're willing to lenda hand, they will drop
everything just to more up yourboat when you pull in.
I mean, that's my favorite partof the whole situation.
Capn Tinsley (01:00:49):
But do you think it's different than the
powerboat community?
Captain Matt (01:00:52):
Oh, by far.
Capn Tinsley (01:00:54):
Tell me about that.
I want to hear about that.
Captain Matt (01:00:56):
Well, I mean, you know, you're you're very
individual, right?
As a power boater, you don'thave to depend on the wind or
anything like that, you know.
So so whereas when you're goingsix, you have a lot more chance
to look at everything and beaware of everything, and and um,
and so you also have more timeto get to know other sailors,
(01:01:19):
and and we all have stories,right?
We all have those crazy,amazing stories that of how
everything was perfect that day,and I had full cells, and
nothing went wrong.
Wait a minute, I don't thinkI've ever had that day, but but
but so you all can go around andy'all can hang out and and you
know talk about salty sailortales um of how it made you who
(01:01:44):
you are today.
Capn Tinsley (01:01:46):
Yes, yes.
Well, that's a good place toend right there.
So I want to do this again, Iwant to catch up with you later.
Yeah, um, in the meantime,everybody that's watching,
please like, subscribe, and andshare.
Um there's no excuse, please.
Right now, here, ask them to doit.
Will you ask them to do it,Matt?
Captain Matt (01:02:05):
Hey, if you like this, if you like the salty
podcast and you're just sittingon your butt right now, you can
do a few things just by liking,sharing, and actually commenting
on this podcast and saying,Hey, you know what?
It's free.
It's just like just like wewant you to do.
(01:02:28):
We want to entertain you, butwe need your support.
So please like, share, and andcomment on the thank you.
Capn Tinsley (01:02:35):
And please go to TikTok at Captain Matt Music on
Facebook, TikTok, you're onYouTube, you're on all those.
Yeah, just like I am.
Uh Instagram, uh I I tagged youall those places.
Uh, please support Matt and uhplease support the Salty
Podcast.
And I guess that's that's it.
(01:02:55):
Thank you.
This has been a pleasure.
Captain Matt (01:02:57):
Oh, thank you so much for having me.
I am so excited to be a part ofthis, and I can't wait to come
back and and tell you all thenew news of what's happening.
Capn Tinsley (01:03:06):
Yes, yes.
I like I like having people onand getting caught up again, so
you know, caught on whatwhatever's going on.
So thank you very much.
A pleasure, and uh thank youfor singing.
And with that, I'll end this bysaying salt to your band.
Welcome back to the Salty Podcast, streaming to
you live from the beautifulFlorida Keys.
My guest tonight is CaptainMatt, a sailor who found his
stride on the water and hisvoice through music, even
turning his sailboat into atouring bus along the Gulf
Coast.
He built a solid career infamily life, but music never
really left.
Then one TikTok live on thedare lit the spark and a
(00:28):
community formed around hiscoastal inspired songs.
Now he's all in, blendingsailing and music with sailing
vessel Criola as his tour bus.
And we're even gonna hear acouple of his original songs
that he's gonna sing livetonight that carry that coastal
vibe.
Before we toss the lines onthis episode, please like,
subscribe, and share this videoso I can continue sharing these
(00:51):
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I even have a new way tosupport the podcast.
It's by visiting my new Shopifystore at saltypodcast.com.
Uh I just launched it, and atthis point I have Salty Podcast
SPF shirts as well as somet-shirts for both men and women
with more items to come.
I have one of the 50 SPF shirtson, and I really love my design
(01:15):
if I say so myself.
And the word sailor is uhwritten down the sleeve,
identifying you instantly as asailor, not just a voter.
I'm Captain Tinsley aboardSalty Abandon and Island Packet
320, currently in the FloridaKeys, and this is episode 83.
Please help me welcome CaptainMatt.
Welcome, Matt.
Captain Matt (01:38):
How are you doing?
Capn Tinsley (01:39):
How was that introduction?
Did that kind of sum you up alittle summary of you?
Captain Matt (01:44):
Absolutely.
You did a fantastic job.
Thank you so much.
Capn Tinsley (01:47):
Fabulous.
So we I didn't know who youwere, and I hadn't talked to you
until just about five or tenminutes ago, but I met you in
the Sailors uh Roundup onTikTok.
I was invited to the group.
You were a speaker, and yousaid something like, Hey, let's
do a podcast.
I was like, Okay, great.
And so and you sent me to youryour uh your your website and it
(02:09):
and it's got all kinds of goodinformation.
You've got a great story.
Um, and I do have somequestions, but uh let's start
since it is a sailing podcast.
Um, I would like to know aboutyour boat.
Captain Matt (02:22):
Everybody wants to know about my boat.
Capn Tinsley (02:25):
Sure.
Tell us about it.
What what is it, what brand,what year, how long is it, all
that, what model, all thatstuff.
Captain Matt (02:32):
So I sail, so I alright, so kind of little
backstory.
I originally chartered a Lagoon46 and because I was thinking
about buying it, and um, and Ifound out that it was way too
big of a boat for me, uh, forwhat I was trying to do.
And uh I ended up uh kind ofsaying I'm gonna I'm gonna go
smaller, and uh because I wanteda solo sale.
(02:55):
I didn't want to have a bunchof people going because I wanted
to, you know, do individualtype situations.
So I ended up going a fan, afriend and supporter, uh reached
out to me and said, I'm aboutto give you the biggest offer uh
that you won't think is true.
Uh, but I'm willing to sell youmy Gemini, my 2002 Gemini Um
105 MC, and um, which is about a35 foot uh by 14 catamaran.
(03:22):
And um, and I think it's gonnabe perfect for what you're
trying to accomplish by going upand down the Gulf Coast.
Uh, and I'll do it for about atenth of the price of what it's
worth.
Wow.
And I was like, Are you kiddingme?
And he's like, Yeah, and Isaid, Yes, it definitely sounds
too good to be true.
What's wrong with it?
He goes, Nothing.
I my wife and I, we we lived inTampa area, and we're kind of
(03:46):
reverse snowbirds that we wantto move up to Tennessee, and we
just don't have a place for itanymore.
And I love your vision, I lovewhat you're doing, and I want to
contribute to it becauseCaptain Matt needs a boat to
sail around and sing on.
Capn Tinsley (04:02):
Uh and do you live on the boat full time?
Captain Matt (04:05):
No, I do not.
So, I mean, I I I have a housein Houston, um, and then I use
the sailboat.
Like a matter of fact, thefamily and I are going as soon
as this interview is over,family and I are going to the
boat for the weekend and uh inand going hanging out at our lot
that we own in Freeport, whereI keep the boat, and then but I
do live on it when I'm touring.
(04:26):
Um, it's it's just like anymusician who has a tour bus,
that's their home when they'reout on the road.
Well, this is my home when I'mout performing.
Capn Tinsley (04:35):
Yeah, so I when I heard you say that in uh the
sailors roundup, that I wasenvisioning that you were going
past I live in Orange Beach,Gulf Shores, Orange Beach,
Alabama.
I'm in the Keys right now, butthat's where I live.
Captain Matt (04:49):
I played Florabama.
I love Oh really?
It's it's a great, it's a greatplace to be, especially if
you're a country musician.
Capn Tinsley (04:55):
Right, right.
And uh and how far do you godown?
What what areas do you tour?
Captain Matt (05:01):
Uh well, so when I first bought the boat, he was
in Tampa.
So I set up a tour to sail backto Texas, and um the crazy
thing about that is I had Ithink we had 22 different stops
that we're gonna stop, you know,because it takes a while to
sell, you know.
And and then I didn't want tosell a boat that I had not been
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on for a while across the Gulf.
And so I said, okay, I'm gonnamake one every day or or every
two days, I'm gonna make a stop,and then I'm gonna find a place
and I'm gonna perform.
And I had a whole list ofeverything.
And two days before we weregoing to launch the boat off a
dry dock, Hurricane Helene camein.
And and and we were so it's asa matter of fact, the the the
(05:49):
marina said, Oh yeah, y'all canstay on the boat, we'll launch
you as soon as the hurricane'sover.
Because none of us where wasit?
Capn Tinsley (05:55):
What marina?
Captain Matt (05:57):
Oh, you had to ask me it.
Capn Tinsley (05:59):
What is the was it in St.
Pete?
Were you getting work done?
Captain Matt (06:02):
No, no, no, it was north.
Um, it was north of Bradington.
Um, what's that little smallisland there?
And I cannot remember the nameof the marina.
Capn Tinsley (06:11):
Was it safe harbor?
Um, was it a safe harbor inBraidington or that may have
been it?
Captain Matt (06:17):
Safe harbor, but but it was it was it wasn't in
Bradington, it was on the otherside of the yes, yes, yes.
Capn Tinsley (06:23):
Yeah, there's uh it used to be Jimmy Buffett's
one particular harbor there.
And um now it's uh I can'tthink I love that marina.
Yeah, it's very nice.
It has nice, does it havereally nice floating docks and
everything?
Captain Matt (06:36):
Uh this one, this one's a DIY because one of the
reasons I wanted to have thatDIY situation is because I've
owned boats for pretty much mywhole life.
I had power boats, and I I'mprobably the only boat owner
that you would ever know thatgets sad when he sells a boat,
but I've always sold it forprofit.
(06:58):
And uh, because I'll buy I'llbuy boats and then I'll upgrade
them and fix them and then turnaround and sell them.
So I probably did like 20 or 30boats like that in my lifetime.
Um, but it and it did a lot ofoffshore fishing, charter.
I mean, I really am a captain,charter captain, stuff like
that, where you take peopleoffshore, and um, and then I I
(07:18):
honestly just got tired of thejust constant boom, boom, going
out and fishing.
Uh, and I wanted to go from 40knots to six knots, and that's
that's why I started looking atsailing and loved it.
I cannot believe I haven't doneit sooner.
Capn Tinsley (07:33):
Oh, I'm glad to hear that.
You need to get one of theseshirts and identify as a sailor.
Captain Matt (07:40):
It is it is so much fun, and and then and then
not only that, but you know, Ithat whole trip that I was
telling you that we're comingback.
So I got hit in HurricaneHelene, yeah, and and um and the
water surge came up at themarina and nearly took us off
the blocks.
It was that high.
Oh my gosh! And I'm so imaginebeing surrounded by much larger
(08:03):
kill boats.
So you and you're on acatamaran, which is you're
obviously you know shorter tothe ground.
I knew I was gonna float firstand I had nowhere I could go.
I was literally gonna pay youknow, pinball with all these
other boats as we're movingaround.
And I was on the boat, so uh,so we we kind of made this whole
spiderweb situation with linewhere we were tying to other
(08:25):
boats and tying everything thatwas fixed just so we could keep
it in the center, and we keptwatching the water go up and up
and up, and then all of asudden, about midnight, the tide
started going down, and it waslicking literally, you could
feel it licking the bottom ofthe boat.
And um, so anyhow, thathappened, and but we did launch
(08:46):
a couple of days later, and wehad to cancel about half of the
tour because all the places weredamaged, they were cold, yeah,
and so it it we didn't reallyget to start performing until we
got to carabel, and then onceonce we got to where'd you go in
carabel?
Uh the uh the I think it wascalled Carabel Marina.
What is I can't remember?
You're asking me.
(09:06):
This is I can barely sorry.
Capn Tinsley (09:08):
I'm sorry.
I remember yeah, I told you I'mnot gonna ask you anything you
don't know because you're it'sabout you.
I'm sorry.
I was like, I know all thatarea really well, that's why I'm
asking.
Captain Matt (09:17):
I so imagine it's that marina.
So if you go all the way to thevery end of the inlet, it's
that marina to the right.
Capn Tinsley (09:25):
They have the moorings, the moorings take care
of them.
Captain Matt (09:28):
Yeah, the moorings.
Capn Tinsley (09:29):
That's what I like to say.
Yeah, yeah.
Captain Matt (09:31):
So love, I love that place, and yeah, it was
really funny because so I camethere and they're like, Oh,
yeah, he's like, tie-ups.
She's like, Are you gonna do aconcert first tonight?
And I said, Absolutely.
And so right you know, rightthere at that little shop, they
set me up on the porch and had20, 30 people there, and we had
a nice little beautiful intimateconcert.
Capn Tinsley (09:48):
Now, did they pay you or did you just do it for
free?
Captain Matt (09:51):
We we had some exchanges and tie-ups, you know,
overnight stays and stuff likethat.
So that that that was kind oftheir compensation to me as
saying, hey, we're gonna let youstay, you know, for slip fee or
something like that.
So, because we we definitelywanted to do that, and and and I
it wasn't an initially theintention, um, but there were so
(10:12):
many marinas who are saying,absolutely, we would love for
you to come entertain us becauseI don't I don't know if you
would think this way, butimagine you probably see the
exact same thing over and overand over again if you work at a
marina, so you're always gonnawant something new and fresh,
and so they're really nice inthere too, they're very
welcoming.
I love them to death.
(10:34):
Uh matter of fact, I I shouldhave worn the shirt tonight
because I ended up getting oneof their shirts, you know, where
it talks about the crossing andeverything because uh that was
a forced crossing because I wasplanning on stopping, but we had
to go non-stop for three daysfrom Tampa all the way to
Carapel.
Capn Tinsley (10:48):
And then you went um, then you went up the
intercoastal as far as you can.
What's your what's your uh youryour height of your mast?
Captain Matt (10:56):
It is 38 foot.
Capn Tinsley (10:58):
Oh, you're good.
Captain Matt (10:59):
Yeah, so so I but I still was out in in the open
water until I got to I guessuma, Louisiana.
So I so we but we were stoppingyou have to, sure.
Yeah, we were stopped we werewe were stopping every other
day.
So we would you know we'd go 24hours or you know, whatever and
(11:22):
do a you know a full day sale,it do it do a night sale and
then go to the next.
So so like the next stop wasPanama City, and then after
Panama City, we went to Destin.
And then after Destin, we wentto Orange, you know, Orange
Beach and or or Perdito Key iswhere we actually stop.
And then after Perdito Key, weanchored just outside of Angel
(11:43):
Island, and and so I so we wealways had like you know these
two-day trips where because Ijust didn't want to get out
there, and that in the three-daytrip from Tampa to Carabao, we
had a just the craziest windsituation because Milton was
behind us and they was pushing20 to 30 foot waves, you had to
get out of the way, and and wewere trying to get out of it as
(12:06):
fast as possible, and I had agust of wind, I have no idea
where it came from, because wewere totally, you know, we were
totally getting it off thethree.
That's where we were gettingit, and then all of a sudden it
came from the uh we came fromthe six or excuse me, from the
nine.
So my mast went oh like that.
(12:28):
And as soon as it soon as itcame back, you heard you heard
my main cell go it sound like azipper and just tore the whole
thing off.
And um, and so I literally, youknow, I I had to use the jib to
sell the rest of the or motorsale uh for about 75% of the
trip because of what happenedthere.
And you what a way to startthis whole thing.
Capn Tinsley (12:52):
It was horrible, and uh you never know what
you're gonna get up in that bigbin.
Captain Matt (12:58):
Yeah, so and the the crazy, so and I love that it
had a beautiful track, right?
Uh on on it was like this uh,you know, I I don't I some sort
of poly type track made itreally easy to bring the mane up
and everything else on it.
It was an addition to the boatthan what Jim Knight had.
And but it would he had had itfor so long, it kind of was
(13:19):
starting to dry rot.
And just that one, I mean,imagine you know how much torque
is on a you know on a cell whenit's when it's full, and um,
and so and then for it to gofrom one side to the other like
that.
I mean, it it just knocked itall down.
So I and then I had to orderthe track, and then or then to
order the track, they custommake it, and so so it I couldn't
(13:40):
just overnight go to Caribbeanand had it there for me.
So it took about you know threeor four months to actually when
you got back, when you got toTexas.
Well, I I did stop in Louisianafor a little bit because I've I
have in-laws there and had hadit there about so okay.
Capn Tinsley (13:57):
Well, Mike uh Wack, who lives in Orange Beach,
uh, he we're gonna talk abouthis music.
He's even gonna play live, anduh well, I figure we'd do it at
30 minutes and then right at theend, we'll do two songs that
he's he he has chosen.
And Mike says, nice plug forOrange Beach, and Island Spirit
says Annapolis made cat, Geminicats are cool.
Captain Matt (14:18):
Yes, absolutely.
Capn Tinsley (14:20):
I think there's one next door to me right now.
Captain Matt (14:23):
You know, the owner um of of the one that made
Gemini, he actually selled itacross the Atlantic, and I can't
I can't think of his name rightoff hand, right?
But but he crashed it took itacross the Atlantic and he said
he would never do it again.
But he but he's that capable,and trust me, I can guarantee
(14:44):
you it is that capable becauseof the winds and the in this and
the way I mean I was literallysurfing 30-foot waves coming
coming into uh pensacola thatone time.
It was just crazy.
Capn Tinsley (14:55):
Did you go on Pensacola Pass?
Captain Matt (14:57):
Went through went through the pass and then went
through Perdito Key, and that'swhere we stopped right there in
Perdido Key.
Capn Tinsley (15:03):
Uh Mike says, I'm watching this guy's interesting.
Okay, so let's go back to thequestions.
Um what first pulled youtowards sailing?
We are gonna talk about music,but we this is a sailing
podcast.
So um what what first pulledyou towards sailing?
And you said you um how longhave you sailed?
Like you said you had sailedbefore.
(15:26):
How long is that?
Captain Matt (15:27):
So it's we're probably going on three years
now of being a sailing captain,and um I I I like I said I've
I've been a maritime captain fora long time as a charter, so it
was it was quite honestly.
I I I'd hate to say this, butbut it it's out is actually easy
(15:51):
transition for you do all thedoor plotting and I mean exactly
and so rules of the road andthen and then not only that, but
the other thing that was crazyis everything's so much slower,
and so you have time to reactwhen you're sailing.
When you have something goingwrong, when you're at 40 knots,
(16:11):
you don't, you've got to reactquickly.
And uh, I knew I was justgetting way too old to start
reacting to that.
Capn Tinsley (16:19):
Well, it looks like everybody on speedboats
going around Orange Beach,they're just their hair,
nobody's talking, they're justgoing so fast, and and
everybody's you know, but whenyou're on a sailboat, the
journey is well, you're you'resailing is the journey.
Captain Matt (16:37):
I mean, that but and there's nothing wrong with
that.
Capn Tinsley (16:39):
Whereas I can you always play it safe, don't you
like to say a safe answer?
I don't know how many powerboaters are watching this.
So um, how does uh okay, howdoes being on the water
influence your mindset, whetheryou're thinking about writing or
just being present?
Um, what thinking, writing, orjust being present or playing
music, what does that do?
(17:00):
What does being on the water dofor you with your sound?
Captain Matt (17:04):
So I have this tendency um that when I'm out
sailing, that I literallyprobably write three to five
songs every night.
And uh and and a lot of it hasto do with the surroundings.
The greatest feeling in theworld, if you're watching this
(17:25):
wherever you are right now, thegreatest feeling in the world is
to watch the sun come up or towatch the sunset when you're
sailing.
It's I I don't even I can'teven explain the euphoria of
what you feel, and and then andthen you've got those dark
nights when you're on that nightwatch, you know, making the
crossings and everything else,and you're absolutely alone.
(17:48):
And sometimes if the moon's notout and you can't see the
stars, you can't even see yourhand in front of your face.
And and then it's just a it's avery, very isolated place, and
you have a lot of thoughts and alot of process.
Um, so I you I I instead ofusing that in a negative way, I
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use that in a positive way towrite songs that could help and
affect people that maybe feellike that with a mental health
ill issue or something likethat, uh, to have the songs
resonate to them as well.
Capn Tinsley (18:21):
Interesting.
Yes.
Um, so Island Spirit says,Amen.
Sunrise at sea is the best.
Captain Matt (18:28):
With a sundowner, you gotta have a sundowner, or
it's not it's not worth it.
Capn Tinsley (18:33):
Um, so uh Mike or or Hayden, can you tell me if
I'm echoing out there?
I hear just once in a while, Ihear an echo.
Um, okay, sailing to the gig.
Was it right uh like arrivingat the performance by boat
instead of car or van?
Does it change the energy ofthe show?
Captain Matt (18:50):
Oh, absolutely.
I think that's probably thebest part about it is you know,
people can see me pull up andthey're waiting.
The boat, what I my fan base iscalled the boat crew, the boat
crew's waiting for me to turnup.
I love it, it's so much fun.
It's it's it's much better thanpulling up in a bus or you
know, pulling up in a you know,going by plane somewhere because
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it's not a quick process, asyou know, when you pull into
marina, and uh that's the bestpart about the Gemini.
Capn Tinsley (19:18):
And you're praying that nothing goes wrong so you
can get there.
Captain Matt (19:21):
That's the best part about the Gemini, by the
way, is is it's 14 foot wide, soI literally can go to any
marina and pull into a regularslip and not have to wait for a
cat slip.
So uh, so that is so helpful uhto you know do the process and
everything.
But it's but it in the but theylove it, they absolutely love
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it that they can be there to seeme show up, and I love it too
because that's what's different.
This is that's what it's allabout is community and bringing
people together instead of justbeing some of this big country
music stars.
I don't ever want to be that, Iwant to be the guy.
That it promotes the lifestyle,not promote me, if that makes
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sense.
Capn Tinsley (20:06):
Love it.
Okay.
Um, we kind of already saidthis, but how often do musical
ideas hit you while you'resailing?
And do you ever stop andcapture them right there aboard
Criola?
So you just said that that youcould write three songs in a
night.
Captain Matt (20:24):
Three to five at least.
And I mean, they may not begreat songs, but and and then
and sometimes those three orfive may become one.
You never know.
I mean, it but I'm alwaysconstantly writing, and I'm it
that's a lot of the reasons whyI play ukulele instead of a
guitar, because I want it rightbeside me, especially if I'm
yeah, that is easier to have itin the cockpit.
Capn Tinsley (20:44):
So Connie Slade says, Hey Captain Matt.
I don't know if you know, yeah,I sure do.
Is she part of the boat crew?
Captain Matt (20:52):
Yeah, absolutely.
Absolutely.
Capn Tinsley (20:54):
Cool.
Hope your fans all come in.
Um, all right.
Okay, when you're movingbetween gigs or destinations,
what does a typical day aboardCriola look like?
Captain Matt (21:08):
Uh, you know, it depends on who's with me.
Capn Tinsley (21:11):
Um, yeah, how many people go with you?
Captain Matt (21:13):
Well, it depends.
Uh so usually I have at leastone because I'm gonna need some
sleep time, especially afterperformance.
Um, and so there's at leastone.
But some I mean, I love myband, but not all of them are
you know boaters, and and theycan't they can't deal with the
what what it takes to uh to todeal with the the rocking that
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we all know, which is soothingto us, but it's not for them.
So they'll actually take a busand they'll meet me at location
or something like that whereverwe're going.
Capn Tinsley (21:43):
And it's also too slow for some people.
Captain Matt (21:46):
Yeah, yeah, and it is definitely without a doubt,
it is definitely too slow uh forthem.
And uh so I tip and the Geminiis not huge.
I mean, we have three staterooms, uh, but one of them is
really a locker, you know, justto keep our music equipment and
everything else in it.
And then the it's so you've gottwo, and then you can make the
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parlor into another bedroom.
So two, three maxed uh is whatI typically travel with.
Capn Tinsley (22:15):
So we're getting close to you singing a song.
We got about eight minutes, butuh let's see.
Um what what's a challengingmoment at sea that taught you
something about sailing or evenabout yourself?
That's a deep question.
I I I let me let me say thistoo.
Let me add this.
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Was there a moment when yourealized sailing and music
weren't two separate pathsanymore, but one lifestyle?
That's a good question.
Captain Matt (22:42):
Yeah, definitely, definitely it was it it was
coming into Louisiana um in forfor pretty much the final leg
before I was gonna take a breakfor a couple of months, um and
and not sell the rest to untillater to Texas.
But that one, that moment, thatsituation that I had, um they
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had had a hurricane about threeor four months before, and every
one of the buoys was not in thechannel at all.
I mean, talking a hundred footover.
Capn Tinsley (23:22):
Where is this in Caribbean?
Captain Matt (23:24):
No, no, in Louisiana.
Capn Tinsley (23:26):
Oh, in Louisiana, that's right, you did say that.
Captain Matt (23:28):
And so, and so it was and so when you're looking
for all of those buoys, all thenavigational buoys, and they're
not there, but you know you'rein the channel, you know for a
fact you're in a channel, and umI learned a lot from working
with the guy that was with mebecause I asked him, I said,
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Look, these buoys are not wherethey are.
We're supposed to be.
I know I'm in the channel, soplease just look for the buoys.
And as soon as and we werecoming in at dark too, and it's
just that's that's where allthose those uh rigs are.
Yes, yes.
Capn Tinsley (24:08):
I've heard about that, and they're not all lit.
Captain Matt (24:10):
No, not all of them are lit.
And so I said, I need you to assoon as you see a buoy, you
need to spotlight it.
Boom, spotlight it so that wayI know it where it is, and I can
either you know make adeviation or something like
that, just so I don't hit thosebuoy, and they had just been
tossed around and they were justthey had moved, dude.
They had moved, I mean, everyone of them just not in the
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place they were supposed to be,and they hadn't reset them yet.
So, so and I remember I had ajust conniption fit because
there was three that literallymaybe a foot away from the boat,
you know, that's how close wecame to him, and not one time
did he say anything, and I wentoff on him.
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I really, really did, and Ilearned, you know what, that's
not a good captain.
A good captain needs toeducate, needs to understand,
and and and and try to try to beas patient as possible because
they're just as stressed out asyou are, and and there is a huge
and and then that was the otherthing that really really
mattered to me is I said, man,the worst thing is when you show
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your emotion and you show yourstress, you're not gonna help
your crew because now they'regonna see it.
So I learned a lot uh from thatparticular passage the most.
Um, and and then, but I alsofelt like man, I can't.
I've already had my main sailthat they tore down.
I now and and I was like, Idon't know, I you know, I don't
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know if I want any other hardlessons.
I want to easy, ease my way inback into Texas.
Capn Tinsley (25:50):
I get it.
Yeah, I mean I can't make itfrom Orange Beach to here
without repairs, it just it justgoes along with it.
Yeah, just bring the creditcard.
Um, all right.
Um so you I like that youblended two two of your
passions.
Um where do you see yoursailing and music journey
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heading next?
Captain Matt (26:13):
Well, so we have spent a lot of time over the
past two or three monthsrecording a new album, and that
new album will be coming outaround the same time everybody
wants to get on the water in thespring.
So we want to be the soundtrackof summer uh with that album.
And with that being said, thatmeans we're gonna start doing
some more touring.
(26:34):
So we're gonna do a Texas GulfCoast tour uh up and down.
And and then once once we dothat, uh they're the next
biggest one is what we call theFreeport to Freeport tour.
And the reason why it'sFreeport to Freeport is because
where my boat is is in Freeport,Texas.
That's where I keep it.
And um, we are gonna we'regonna do festivals and
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everything else along the wayfrom Freeport, Texas, and go all
the way around the horn and getand end in Freeport, Bahamas.
So there's that's it's gonna bea a really, really cool
situation a couple of years fromnow, obviously not this year,
but uh we're really, reallyexcited about that.
It's gonna be a lot of fun.
And um and it it we'll goinland, we're gonna bring the
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Gulf to you guys too.
Um that way we'll do someconcert, and that's a lot of the
what why we're doing is we'rewe're stopping, say, in
Louisiana, and then we'll go upto Jackson.
We'll go up to we'll we'll goup to Shreeport, we'll do shows
there, and then come back to theboat, and then go to the next
location.
Capn Tinsley (27:36):
Is this the one um that we're talking about?
Or is this a path?
Okay, yeah, there's all thesecities in Texas, the Texas Gulf
Coast tour, and you're gonna gointo Louisiana too.
Captain Matt (27:47):
Yes, yeah.
So the Freeport to FreeportTour will be after that.
So we're gonna go down thereand back, as or we're starting
in in South Padre, and thenwe'll work in our way back.
Uh, and then once we come back,we'll do we'll do the uh
Boathouse Music Festival inGalveston, which is around Labor
Day, and then go back in to theto the recording studio, and
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that's when we'll start theFreeport to Freeport tour.
Capn Tinsley (28:12):
And you can see on uh if you go to his website,
captainmatmusic.com, uh, he'sgot all the songs here.
Sail away, uh live from PerditoKey.
Look at that.
My new lover live from PerditoKey.
And uh there's a sand on ourboots.
I'll sail my ship alone, so youcan actually buy individual
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songs here on his website.
Captain Matt (28:34):
Now, or you can if you look at the top right
there, uh go, I don't know ifyou can see it from your angle,
but uh there there is a link touh my Spotify YouTube music um
in in Apple Tunes.
I think it's to the right.
You can't really see it fromthere.
I don't know, but uh but thatthat way you can get that and um
in and talk about where you canbuy them right here.
(28:56):
No, at the very, very top ofthe the screen, you should I
don't I don't see it on your Isee home about booking shows
news tip jar.
It should be to the right ofcontact.
Uh it should show you all ofthe links right there.
I don't know why it's notshowing that.
That's weird.
Capn Tinsley (29:11):
Yeah.
But anyway, you can check outhis website.
And all right.
Well, are you ready to sing asong?
Captain Matt (29:21):
I yeah, I guess I definitely can.
So I so I'll tell you, youknow, you were talking about
what made you want to get tothat situation where you wanted
to sell.
Well, I actually kind of putthat in writing uh to a song,
and this was uh during theprimary, um I guess two years
ago, and um where they weretrying to elect who was going to
(29:43):
run for president, and uh and Iwas just sitting there watching
TV.
I'm like, I am so sick ofseeing politics on TV.
Can you just show me a baseballgame or just show me a
basketball game or somethinglike that?
And then it kind of inspired meto sing this song or to write
the song called Sail away.
So that's what I'm gonna writeright now.
Capn Tinsley (30:02):
Let me let me ask you one question.
Mike says, I'm in cell range, Ido Pandora, usually Jimmy
Buffett.
Does he have a Pandora channel?
Captain Matt (30:09):
Yes.
If you if you search CaptainMatt and the boat crew, Captain
Matt and the Boat Crew, you willfind all of my location.
I'm on every music streamingsite that's out there.
Capn Tinsley (30:19):
Okay, so maybe not Pandora, huh?
Or really?
Okay.
All right.
Captain Matt (30:25):
Yeah.
All right.
All right, here we go.
This is called Sail Away, so Ihope you guys enjoy it.
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Cycle repetition of work days.
And leave a word.
(32:01):
He started screaming politicalfeet.
(32:24):
I let it Lily had a touch withthe night.
(32:53):
So I vote for that night.
It's a public show and it's verythere's probably younger
people, so I'm not gonna saythat.
It's time to sail away toanother day.
(33:17):
It's time to sail away andleave my words behind my bread
to live on time.
(33:37):
So let's relax as time goes byLittle Slamp.
Close to being empty time tosail away.
(34:09):
I hear I need capping, I needyou to clap to another place.
Let's talk to me and feel whenI'm not a face.
It's time to send away my wordsbeyond the green time to live
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on the town.
It's time to sell the word.
Capn Tinsley (34:52):
Woo woo woo woo woo woo Connie says he's she's
clapping, she's giving emojis.
Uh uh Island Spirits do we sayall the way every year?
Great song, hashtag IslandSpirit.
So I just pulled up your yourum let me pull it up.
Your TikTok.
(35:13):
So tell us that story.
What happened?
You said it was a dare.
You should so someone saw aguitar in the back behind you uh
on TikTok and dared you toplay.
Captain Matt (35:26):
So the crazy thing about so I I'm an engineer.
That's that's what I I yeah, anengineering firm.
And um, I was kind of in a downpoint in my life uh after the
pandemic and everything else.
Hey boat crew.
Oops, sorry.
I got an interview tonight.
Capn Tinsley (35:44):
I just want to bring that up because it has my
salty podcast on it on Salt.
Captain Matt (35:49):
It's called the Salty Podcast, and it's for S
slash V Salty Abanion.
So if you it's fine that it'scalled the Salty Podcast, search
for it on YouTube.
So, anyhow, um so I uh my mompassed away in 2020, and and I I
(36:12):
kind of felt like this um adultlike orphan, if that makes
sense.
I didn't have my parentsanymore.
I mean, I I obviously I had mywife and children and
everything, but I was kind of inthis point of like, I'm the
matriarch now, it's crazy, it'sweird, and um and or or
(36:34):
patriarch, I guess uh notmatriarch, but uh but but either
way, I just I I it was a hardtransition for me, and um I was
kind of like at the point of mycareer where I was I was really
enjoying what I did for aliving, and and and I I had been
a previous musician when I wasin my 20s, but I fell in love
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and that didn't that it at thetime it wasn't paying very well,
so I had to find a real job,real career to raise kids.
Um, so somebody said, Hey man,why don't you go on TikTok just
to kind of build yourself up andhave some fun and talk to
strangers?
I'm like, Okay, maybe talk tostrangers, I'll give it a and so
so that's what I ended up goinglive on TikTok because I had
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enough people.
That was when you had to have athousand people to go live on
TikTok, and so I but I hadenough people, and I was in the
middle of cleaning out mycloset, and one of my guitars
was kind of sitting in thebackground in the case, and
somebody on the live saw it andthey said, Oh, you play.
And I'm like, No, I hadn'tplayed in like 20 years, as you
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know.
This you know, we we weretalking about this between with
you.
I was like, No, I haven't Idon't haven't played this in 20
years.
So I and I said, and they andthey as always, TikTok can get
you in trouble because they kepttrying to push me over the
edge.
By I was like, all right,here's the deal.
If I get a hundred heart me'sthen I'll do it.
(37:59):
Well, I did, and they werelike, Are you serious?
And so I had to do it, andended up right singing a I think
it was a Garth Brooks song orsomething like that.
Um and they went crazy over it.
I'm like, what?
This is really and um and thenI said, Okay, y'all want me to
sing more?
And they of course they wantedme to sing more, and and um, and
(38:22):
so I started just that becamemy stick on, you know, and um
and and just like any othersongwriter out there, if you
walk away from it, and then allof a sudden you put a uh an
instrument back in their hands,they're gonna start writing
songs again eventually.
And it's exactly what startedhappening to me is that
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songwriter mode went into fullforce 11.
And uh, and then I startedwriting songs, and I think I've
written at least 150 since 2000uh uh 2023.
Capn Tinsley (38:59):
That's when this this event happened was 2023.
Yeah, and had you played thatguitar in the 20 years or so you
did it cold, you just went liveand did it.
Captain Matt (39:12):
Yeah, I just I and I I I was like respect,
respect, respect.
But the crazy thing is, Cap, isum my voice was totally
different than it was when I wasin my twenties.
Capn Tinsley (39:26):
You're older, it's probably deeper, right?
Captain Matt (39:28):
Yeah, it was deeper and it it seemed to
resonate more with the audience.
And you know, I a lot of peoplesay it's like they well, my
favorite quote is from a radioDJ who said, It's like if Jimmy
Buffett and Wayland Jennings hada love child, it's yeah.
Capn Tinsley (39:46):
That makes sense.
Yeah.
Well, that's perfect for countryand for Gulf Coast vibe
country, or what do they callit?
They call it drop drop rock ortrop rock, but I'll be honest
with you.
Captain Matt (39:57):
I'm trying to coin a different phrase.
And it I'm trying to call itGulf Coast Country because I
feel like Gulf Coast Country hasa blend of a lot of things.
If you go from Texas toLouisiana to Alabama to Florida,
yeah, Panhandle, Florida,you're gonna hear different
styles of music, but it's allreflective.
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They're singing about the placethat they live.
Capn Tinsley (40:22):
I have let me say this.
The guy who did um I'm sorry,I'm blanking out.
What's that group?
They kind of did country rap.
Captain Matt (40:32):
What was oh what was it?
Capn Tinsley (40:36):
And then and Brian.
Captain Matt (40:39):
Are you talking about big and rich?
Capn Tinsley (40:41):
No God, what help me out here, y'all.
Um they were they were huge,they were part of the Bro
Country thing that happened.
They were huge for 10 years.
What is their name?
It was it was yes, Georgia,Florida Line.
So I never I thought, okay,it's kind of like eating fast
food.
You mean you have one or twosongs, and then you're like, ah,
(41:02):
I can't listen to that anymore.
But Brian Kelly, who was kindof a he played second banana in
that group, he came out with analbum.
Captain Matt (41:12):
Yeah, I remember that.
Capn Tinsley (41:14):
Oh my god, I still love it.
And it and I found it onYouTube.
I was just kind of looking forwhat you're talking about.
I was trying to because everytown has like a Jimmy Buffett,
you know, like uh ours is uhBrett Burns and Gulf Shores.
And he always says, I I sing, Iplay, I sing about the the life
Jimmy Buffett.
I I live this the life thatJimmy Buffett sings about.
(41:36):
He has a song like that.
And um, if it's snowbirdseason, why can't we shoot him?
You know, so but um BrianKelly, oh my gosh, he's part of
that.
And I I guess you I forgot thename of the album, but it was
great.
So I think that's what you'retalking about.
Captain Matt (41:52):
Well, and I for me, I like we're trying to coin
it.
I mean, just like Jimmy Buffettpretty much made Trop Rock, you
know, Capital in Key West,we're trying to develop the same
thing uh here in Texas andGalveston, um, where we want to
have people be come todestination and hear the music
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that influences them and bringpeople from all over the Gulf
Coast to come and perform.
That's why we're doing that'swhen we're doing the festival in
a few years, um, and and andreally just kind of make it the
home of the Nashville of theSouth, per se.
Recording studios, all that's agreat place to do it.
Yeah, and it is.
And it in the the cities behindit, we're we're really excited
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about that.
And and it and it is, if you'venever been to Galveston, and I
don't get paid for them sayingthis, I'm literally saying it
because I believe it.
If you've never been toGalveston to get on a cruise or
anything like that, and youhaven't been to the Strand,
that's what Nashville used to belike.
It where you see you literallygo from one room to another and
you're hearing different artiststhat are phenomenal, and
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they're performing rock, classicrock, concentrate.
You're talking about on musicrow, all the different yeah,
music it's just you know, but wecall it they call it the strand
in Galveston.
And so and and so it it wasit's that it's their music row,
and it's so phenomenal.
You have to go book a cruise.
Capn Tinsley (43:18):
Hopefully, they'll I don't I don't I don't do
cruises.
Captain Matt (43:21):
Well, I'm just I'm just saying everybody if you're
watching and you okay, okay, gocruise, go hang out the strand.
You'll probably see me therebecause I'll probably be
performing when I'm not on tour.
Um, and in and just enjoy it.
But that's what we wantGalveston to be.
And I heavily inspired inspiredby Jimmy Buffett, and and I see
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I saw what he did for Key West,and that's kind of my mission
to do the same thing for thepeople, not for me, for the
people, because I would muchrather it outlive me because I
only got maybe a couple 20 yearsleft on this world.
Who knows?
Capn Tinsley (43:56):
Oh well.
Um, all right, are you ready todo another song?
Captain Matt (44:00):
Uh yeah, so um I gotta I gotta introduce this one
because uh in the and you haveto I'm gonna shamelessly plug
this, okay?
So so we we're okay.
Capn Tinsley (44:09):
That's what we're here for.
Captain Matt (44:10):
We are eventually going to uh we're about to open
up the merchandise store on ourwebsite, uh, where you can get
your own.
I I don't know if you can seethe the there's a shirt behind
me right there.
There's that's that's yeah,that's a pretty cool logo, and
then you got the hat here, anduh so it's actually a CM and
then crew, which representsCaptain Matt and the boat crew.
Capn Tinsley (44:30):
Um, and we've got you're in the studio right now,
right?
Captain Matt (44:33):
In the studio, yeah, right now.
So yeah, so and then uh andwe've got all different
merchandise.
I mean, absolutely everything.
A cap, you know, you couldprobably wear this bikini, I
think it would be fantastic.
You've got you know, all kindsof things that uh that we're
doing that.
Capn Tinsley (44:51):
And now I'm working on that too, yeah.
Captain Matt (44:53):
It it matters a lot.
You know this better thananybody.
This is the greatest way youcan support your creators out
there.
If they've got merchandise, buyit because they can make money
to do what they want to do inlove that you're inspired by.
Capn Tinsley (45:06):
And I always put mine up there too, right there.
That's my Shopify.
Captain Matt (45:14):
So definitely, definitely support her and what
she's doing.
Thank you.
Capn Tinsley (45:18):
I'm I I take I'm in the red with this podcast.
I I spend money that I earn inreal estate on this podcast.
Captain Matt (45:25):
Yeah, yeah, I I get it, I completely understand.
Um, and and with that beingsaid, I I'm gonna give you a
special announcement that Ihaven't told anybody else.
Capn Tinsley (45:34):
Okay, let's hear it.
Captain Matt (45:35):
Okay, so you know, the older things get, they
don't work right, they don't dowhat they're supposed to do.
And that's the same problemwith my dinghy.
And well, hold on, let me justwhip it out and show you.
So that's the way it looks.
It's horrible.
(45:55):
And uh that's my dinghy pick.
All right, y'all don't screencapture it and spread it all
over, but that's my dinghy pick.
It's deflated and doesn't it'snot as firm as it used to be.
And uh, but but this is ametaphor.
But I will tell you, there is asavior out there for me, and we
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just had a partnership withthem, and it's any sailor that's
out there as you probably areusing their products, it's
called Manis Marine, and theymake anchors and bridles and
everything else.
Well, now they're making rigiddinghies for all of the sailors
out there, and they came to mysay they came to save me from my
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deflated dinghy, and so I willhave a much firmer dinghy with
that everybody can write on assoon as I get a chance to get
it.
Capn Tinsley (46:46):
This sounds like a song.
Captain Matt (46:47):
So, so anyhow, like deflated dinghy.
Capn Tinsley (46:50):
I mean, there's a song in there.
Make it a metaphor, make itfunny.
So, okay.
Captain Matt (46:59):
How about this?
Capn Tinsley (47:01):
You did write one.
Captain Matt (47:13):
Well, I got a little thing I must show.
It can take you anywhere youwant to go when the sun's
shining in the sky, so blue.
Just hop right on.
Let's change our view on thisday floating on the sea.
Come right with the breeze inthis boat with me.
(47:40):
It's nothing fancy with thislittle thing.
We can be free and both.
Your little engine we canbutter in home.
Spring it over here and let thegood times come.
(48:02):
We've all been with switchingand there is a moment.
The world's a little betterwhen you're on for a ride.
Floating on say come ride withgrease in this boat with me.
It's nothing fancy how much dogwith this little day we can be
(48:34):
free and vote.
I not go file, who reallycares?
Just you mean salt yet, coupledrinks, peach tunes, and so on
this boat.
So we're used to feel warm onthis day floating on the sea.
(48:59):
Come right with the breeze inthis boat.
It's nothing fancy or mustardwith this little thing.
We can be free and both.
(49:19):
So here's two sample, easy tofree on this little thing where
you need to be you by my side,no need for plans, just drifting
through life handing.
Capn Tinsley (49:47):
Woo! I really didn't know you were gonna sing
that song, even though I did Ido now remember seeing it in the
song list back there.
So Connie's over here puttinguh she says fire.
Captain Matt (50:04):
That's everybody likes likes to talk about my
duty, new duty.
I'm excited about it.
So I'm very proud of yourdinghy.
I am I'm very proud of it.
I mean, Mis Mana Serene, thankyou so much for doing that.
You're amazing.
Uh definitely go check outtheir products um if you're a
sailor.
(50:24):
And I'm sure you probably havesome manice stuff on your on
your boat as well.
It's it they're they're they'reTexas based and American made.
And they're they're they'rethey're they're amazing, they're
amazing products, and I am soglad that they're partnering
with us on this adventure.
Capn Tinsley (50:40):
We definitely like to support our American
company, so definitely.
All right, um, so let's see ifI have any more questions.
I'm down to rapid fire here.
Um okay, here's uh a fewquestions.
Rapid fire.
Marina or Anchorage?
Captain Matt (50:59):
Anchorage.
Capn Tinsley (51:01):
Okay, I like it.
Uh favorite port of call.
Captain Matt (51:08):
I you know what?
I can't I can't I can't chooseone.
There I love every one of themI've been to.
They're all unique.
I so so I can't say that I havemy favorite port of call.
Capn Tinsley (51:18):
I like I love Anchorages, but I also love
marinas.
There's just something aboutthem.
Captain Matt (51:22):
I know obviously we pull in a lot to perform, but
I love to be out at anchor andand uh just all you hear is the
licking of the boat, you know,at night, and you hear nothing
else.
Capn Tinsley (51:34):
You could do some good songwriting, huh?
Captain Matt (51:37):
Absolutely.
Capn Tinsley (51:40):
Okay, your go-to anchorage.
Captain Matt (51:45):
In Texas, we don't have a lot of anchorages,
unfortunately.
Um there are some that are onthe just outside of Kima, but
I'll tell you my favoriteanchorage was um an island that
was just off the coast ofAlabama, and I want to say it
(52:05):
was Angel Island, if I'm notmistaken.
And um, and we pulled into theAnchorage and there was a live
band performing at the countryclub, very, very close.
So we kind of felt like we hada free concert that night at
Anchorage.
It was really, really awesome.
I think that's the one thatstands out the most for me.
Capn Tinsley (52:26):
Do you think it's off the coast of Mississippi?
Captain Matt (52:29):
Yeah, you're probably right.
I mean, it's there it's rightthere on the edge.
It's right there on the edge.
And I'm trying to remember whatit is.
Capn Tinsley (52:37):
Dauphin Island?
Captain Matt (52:38):
Yes, that's what it is.
Dolphin Island.
Capn Tinsley (52:40):
Okay, all right.
That is off the coast ofAlabama.
I'm sorry, I'm having a littlecoughing fit.
So why don't you sing anothersong while I cough?
Okay, you really want to singanother song?
Yeah, all right.
Captain Matt (52:51):
So I tell you what, I will sing this song
here.
Um, and then she was asking alittle bit earlier about some of
the songs.
All right, I wrote thisspecific song um when I was
coming in and not sure I wasgonna live.
It was such a crazy trip.
And uh, all I could think aboutwas getting home to see my
(53:15):
wife, and I didn't want to justhug her, if you know what I
mean.
So that's why I ended upwriting this song.
It's called uh Rock the BoatBeen sailing so long, lose track
(53:41):
of days with high over theoceans waves.
Hurricanes try to swallow theoil for the next last show every
(54:04):
for face as the ocean only darkplace with lights burn right,
but I'm dreaming of the way forme to night she was my dress
(54:30):
that drives me in time that'snot showing still when I find
the breed school She's fine,classical gay way to tie up to
(55:02):
this dog and rock the boat.
There you go, there's a littletease in it.
Capn Tinsley (55:20):
Awesome.
I heard it.
I heard what you wanted to do.
Okay, I got I got a couple morerapid fires.
Okay.
What what's the first song youplay when you settle in at the
helm?
Settle in it could be it couldbe like your playlist or so so
well so um I do a littlegrateful dead.
(55:44):
Ah, really?
Captain Matt (55:45):
Yeah, I definitely do a little grateful dead.
Um and then um but usually itlike I'll we'll play my song
Sail Away.
That will be the that's likethe departure song.
Capn Tinsley (55:57):
Yeah, it sets the mood, sets the vibe, it sets the
mood.
Captain Matt (56:00):
And then and then um, you know, I I I dig deep
into the the Texas Outlaws typestuff, the Wayland Jennings, the
Willie Nelsons, you know, um,you know, the the fat the the
four horsemen type situations.
So I listen to a lot of that.
Um but I think the mostimportant is is is is probably
(56:21):
Sailor.
Capn Tinsley (56:22):
That's the one that always will now do you play
it or do you play the the core?
Captain Matt (56:26):
Oh no no I push play paying attention to
everything the guitar in myhand.
Capn Tinsley (56:35):
You're not good leaving the marina while you're
playing.
Captain Matt (56:38):
No, no, no, we just I just I I mean I have the
uh the Garmin that that'sconnected to my you know stereo,
and I just push play on thatand boom, there you go.
Capn Tinsley (56:49):
Cool.
Okay, so um what is the nextplace, like a dream destination
you want to sail to, and thenplay music there too?
Captain Matt (56:57):
Where do you want to is this the Caribbean or I
that the so the Freeport toFreeport tour is my next goal as
I I want to be able to to sailback and get to the Bahamas, and
there's so many places ifyou've never been to the Bahamas
to just I'm on my way there,and and and I will tell you like
for me, the draft on my boatwhen my kills are swung up is 18
(57:20):
inches.
Wow, I can get to places thatno one else can get to in the
Bahamas, and those are thereally hidden gems, and so I
want to do that and then keepworking my way down to as far as
Grenada um in performing atevery island stop that I can
possibly stop at.
Capn Tinsley (57:39):
Wow, when's this gonna happen?
Captain Matt (57:42):
You know, it depends on Boak Crew, and if
Vokru can support me and getthese recording outs, then it
it'll go faster than than uhthan later, you know.
I mean, that's that's the wholesituation.
Capn Tinsley (57:54):
So, where do they have to go to do that?
So they they need to go to yourwebsite and start there, and
then okay.
Captain Matt (58:00):
Okay, so we we are so right we're I just I don't
want to get caught up in thewhole Christmas thing, but in
the first of the year, we'regonna launch the merchandise,
we're gonna launch thecrowdfunding for the album, and
then we're gonna launch ourmemberships, uh, which are gonna
be really, really awesome.
So you can support me uh on asubscription base monthly, um,
which helps sustain us.
(58:21):
And the most important one isuh if you if you do like a
certain level, we give you apassport, and that passport is
your VIP to any concert that youcome to, gives you a front row
seat and the potential of goingbackstage when available.
So uh, so we're definitelygonna do stuff like that uh for
those supporters because thatmeans a lot to me, and uh that
(58:44):
monthly income from them, youknow it's coming, they that kind
of helps you that's nice betterfor sure.
Capn Tinsley (58:51):
So you're gonna be able to slide up into
Georgetown and and just startplaying.
Captain Matt (58:56):
Yeah, absolutely.
Capn Tinsley (58:57):
Are you gonna pet play at the chat and chill or
you're gonna just play in theanchorage?
Captain Matt (59:01):
You know what?
We did the booking agent willfind places that want us to
play, and that's exactly what wedo.
And if we can't find a place,then I'll just literally play on
the front deck of my boat andlet all the other boats pull up
to me so when we can sing andperform and hang out and have
fun and drink as many margaritasas we possibly can.
Capn Tinsley (59:17):
That sounds awesome.
Okay, let's see.
We have a comment.
Um Bahamas follow salty abandonthere.
Captain Matt (59:25):
There you go.
Capn Tinsley (59:26):
We gotta do that Texas tour first, yeah.
Captain Matt (59:29):
Yeah, so but and that's the but you know, here's
the best part, and you know thiscat.
The best part about this is welike we met through the Sailors
Roundtable on TikTok, and I loveit that we're all over the
world, we may not be in the sameplace.
I love it that we can connectlike this and be able to have
(59:51):
the relationship and and helpeach other out and give each
other tips and tricks, but whenwe do actually show up in the
same spot.
It's like family, and we're soexcited to hang out with each
other because we've known eachother for so long.
And it just it's a family.
It really is.
And that's exactly what my boatcareer is to me is no matter
where I go, I always feel like Igot family that's waiting for
(01:00:13):
me to arrive.
Capn Tinsley (01:00:14):
That's very cool.
And I um, you know, like I Itold you I'm on my way to the
Bahamas, and there are peoplethat I've interviewed on this
podcast because I've had beendoing this for two years.
The podcast, I've had thesailing channel for 10 years,
but the podcast, and I'm lookingforward to actually meeting
them in person.
Captain Matt (01:00:32):
Oh, yeah.
I mean, that's that's the Ifeel like I know them.
Yeah, and and so helpful.
I mean, everybody who's in thesailing community is so helpful
to help they're willing to lenda hand, they will drop
everything just to more up yourboat when you pull in.
I mean, that's my favorite partof the whole situation.
Capn Tinsley (01:00:49):
But do you think it's different than the
powerboat community?
Captain Matt (01:00:52):
Oh, by far.
Capn Tinsley (01:00:54):
Tell me about that.
I want to hear about that.
Captain Matt (01:00:56):
Well, I mean, you know, you're you're very
individual, right?
As a power boater, you don'thave to depend on the wind or
anything like that, you know.
So so whereas when you're goingsix, you have a lot more chance
to look at everything and beaware of everything, and and um,
and so you also have more timeto get to know other sailors,
(01:01:19):
and and we all have stories,right?
We all have those crazy,amazing stories that of how
everything was perfect that day,and I had full cells, and
nothing went wrong.
Wait a minute, I don't thinkI've ever had that day, but but
but so you all can go around andy'all can hang out and and you
know talk about salty sailortales um of how it made you who
(01:01:44):
you are today.
Capn Tinsley (01:01:46):
Yes, yes.
Well, that's a good place toend right there.
So I want to do this again, Iwant to catch up with you later.
Yeah, um, in the meantime,everybody that's watching,
please like, subscribe, and andshare.
Um there's no excuse, please.
Right now, here, ask them to doit.
Will you ask them to do it,Matt?
Captain Matt (01:02:05):
Hey, if you like this, if you like the salty
podcast and you're just sittingon your butt right now, you can
do a few things just by liking,sharing, and actually commenting
on this podcast and saying,Hey, you know what?
It's free.
It's just like just like wewant you to do.
(01:02:28):
We want to entertain you, butwe need your support.
So please like, share, and andcomment on the thank you.
Capn Tinsley (01:02:35):
And please go to TikTok at Captain Matt Music on
Facebook, TikTok, you're onYouTube, you're on all those.
Yeah, just like I am.
Uh Instagram, uh I I tagged youall those places.
Uh, please support Matt and uhplease support the Salty
Podcast.
And I guess that's that's it.
(01:02:55):
Thank you.
This has been a pleasure.
Captain Matt (01:02:57):
Oh, thank you so much for having me.
I am so excited to be a part ofthis, and I can't wait to come
back and and tell you all thenew news of what's happening.
Capn Tinsley (01:03:06):
Yes, yes.
I like I like having people onand getting caught up again, so
you know, caught on whatwhatever's going on.
So thank you very much.
A pleasure, and uh thank youfor singing.
And with that, I'll end this bysaying salt to your band.
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