SV Salty heels slightly under a full white sail on choppy deep-blue water, seen from another boat, with a low island shoreline and a bright sky of scattered clouds behind her.

SV Salty

Sailing, cooking and adventure aboard SV Salty

Weekly episodes from the water and the galley are coming soon.

Meet the crew
SV Salty at a dock at golden hour, her white hull and tall mast lit by the setting sun and reflected in a long zigzag across calm water, with a concrete bridge behind her.

SV Salty

Sailing, cooking and adventure aboard SV Salty

Weekly episodes from the water and the galley are coming soon.

Meet the crew

About

Meet the crew

The family crew aboard SV Salty.

Scott, SV Salty's captain, at the main helm station in the starboard aft cockpit under the bimini, with open water behind him.

Scott

Captain

Brad’s father and SV Salty’s captain. He is a retired executive from the software development industry. He and Brad cofounded a software company together 2014–2025.

Beth at SV Salty's helm, in a dark cap and patterned top, steering at the wheel under the green bimini.

Beth

Crew

Brad’s mother and Scott’s wife; they’ve been married since 1981. Before Salty, the two of them completed multiple charter voyages and owned a Catalina 30 while living in Rhode Island.

Brad smiles in a white Everlast cap and mirrored sunglasses at the bow of SV Salty, with turquoise water, a distant shoreline and a cloudy blue sky behind him.

Brad

Crew, chef and future captain

A former Executive Sous Chef. Retired from the software industry. Currently a consultant in Utilities Cost Management.

Takes over as captain in June 2027.

Kelley smiling in pink-tinted sunglasses, her long blond hair framing her face, on a sunny day outdoors.

Kelley

Crew

Brad’s partner. A former banker. Recently retired from aerospace parts manufacturing. A homeopathic product entrepreneur.

Broadside view of SV Salty under a deep blue sky, showing her Beneteau and Oceanis 50 hull marks, green canvas, the seahorse SALTY logo and a US flag at the stern.

About the boat

Meet SV Salty

SV Salty is a 2011 Beneteau Oceanis 50. She is powered by a 120% genoa or a code zero, a spinnaker, mainsail and a Yanmar diesel engine. She has stern davits carrying our dinghy, Pepper. She is home, galley, and film set for every episode.

Gallery

Life aboard

Moments under sail and at anchor.

SV Salty, a white sloop with a green bimini, sits at anchor in clear turquoise water under a deep blue sky, her mast reflected in a long ripple across the calm surface.
SV Salty at anchor in clear turquoise water.
Brad takes a selfie on SV Salty's foredeck in a white Everlast cap, sunglasses and a dark vest, with the mast, green-trimmed dodger and turquoise water behind him.
Brad on the foredeck, the Bahamas, February 2026.
SV Salty sails under main and genoa across choppy blue water, seen from another boat, with a low wooded shoreline and soft clouds behind her.
Main and genoa up in a fresh breeze.
SV Salty sails under a big pink, green and yellow spinnaker on gray water, with a gray inflatable dinghy on the stern davits and a long steel truss bridge in the background under an overcast sky.
Flying the spinnaker.
SV Salty at anchor in bright turquoise water, framed by palm trunks and fronds, seen from a white-sand beach with green leaves in the foreground.
SV Salty through the palms from the beach.
Two people relax in blue folding beach chairs on white sand, facing clear turquoise water where a gray inflatable dinghy sits on the beach under a deep blue sky.
Chairs on the beach.
SV Salty under a full white headsail sails through choppy gray water in front of a large container ship stacked with red and orange containers, under a dark storm sky, with a green channel buoy off to the right.
SV Salty under a storm sky.
SV Salty floats on calm, glassy water off a green grassy shore lined with trees, her hull reflected below a clear blue sky.
Calm water off a grassy shore.
A man in a cap and sunglasses sits in SV Salty's cockpit under the green bimini as she sails, with the headsail full, a stainless winch in the foreground and white wake on deep blue-green water.
From the cockpit.
SV Salty's genoa and mainsail are full of wind under a cloudy sky, seen from beside the dodger with blue-green water past the rail.
Genoa and main full, the Bahamas, February 2026.
SV Salty at a dock at golden hour, her white hull and tall mast lit by the setting sun and reflected in a long zigzag across calm water, with a concrete bridge behind her.
Golden hour at the dock.
Full-length side view of SV Salty at anchor, a white sloop with SALTY and a seahorse logo on her hull, a tall mast, green bimini and dodger, and her reflection in calm blue water.
SV Salty at anchor, name on the hull.
A woman bends toward several large rock iguanas walking across a white sand beach beside clear water, with green scrub and rocks behind.
Rock iguanas on the beach.
White wake churns across turquoise water, framed by the shiny stainless steel of SV Salty's stern rail, with a small sailboat on the horizon.
Wake through the stern rail, the Bahamas, February 2026.
View forward along SV Salty's side deck under sail, with the white mainsail, green-trimmed dodger windows and lifelines beside open, sunlit ocean under scattered clouds.
Under sail on open water, the Bahamas, February 2026.
Two people sit in a gray inflatable dinghy floating in crystal-clear shallow water over white sand, tied to a yellow float, with a low island under a deep blue sky.
In the clear shallows.
Scott and Brad eating dinner at Salty's cockpit table under the green bimini, with the wheel and an anchorage of turquoise water and sailboats behind them.
Dinner in the cockpit at anchor: Scott and Brad.
Brad standing at Salty's wheel in a camo T-shirt and yellow shorts, under the teal bimini, with bright turquoise water all around.
Brad at the helm under the bimini.
Salty's gray inflatable dinghy Pepper with its outboard, tied off the stern in clear turquoise water, with the US flag in the corner of the frame.
Pepper, our dinghy, waiting off the stern in clear water.
Brad and Kelley smile for a selfie on a sandy beach in Cleveland, Ohio, both in sunglasses, Brad in a plaid shirt and Kelley in a blue patterned top, with waves and a deep blue sky behind them.
Brad and Kelley, Cleveland, Ohio, September 2026
Brad and Kelley share a kiss on the beach in Cleveland, Ohio, in sunglasses, with breaking waves and a clear blue sky behind them.
Brad and Kelley, Cleveland, Ohio, September 2026
Kelley twirls barefoot on the sand in Cleveland, Ohio, in a flowing light blue dress and sunglasses, sandals in hand, with waves, a wooded point and a blue sky behind her.
Kelley, Cleveland, Ohio, September 2026

Inside Salty

Wood-paneled sailboat salon seen from the companionway: L-shaped cream settee and table on the left, straight settee and nav desk on the right, blue striped runner down the middle.
The salon, looking forward to the master cabin door.
Starboard side of Salty's salon with a cream straight settee and a sea-turtle pillow, the navigation station with instrument panels at right, overhead hatches and a long hull window.
The starboard side of the salon: a straight settee and the nav station.
Sailboat galley with warm wood cabinets, a stainless gimbaled stove and oven with a kettle, a microwave in an upper cabinet, speckled counters on both sides, and portlights above.
Salty's galley: a gimbaled stove and oven, a microwave, and counter space on both sides.
Cream L-shaped settee with octopus and seahorse pillows around a fold-out wooden table, a blue Dometic cooler, and the companionway steps and galley in the background.
The L-settee and table, with the companionway and galley behind.
Cream L-shaped salon settee with blue sea-life pillows around a cherry table, a large compass rose on the bulkhead, and overhead hatches letting in daylight.
Salon seating, built for long dinners at anchor.
Forward master cabin with an island double berth made up in gray floral bedding and a soft gray throw, wood cabinetry and shelves on both sides, and cabin portlights above.
The forward master cabin with its island berth.
Starboard aft guest cabin with a double berth in gray floral bedding, warm wood paneling, and a teak-look floor.
The starboard aft guest cabin: a double berth tucked under the cockpit.
Through an open wooden door: a marine head with a toilet, a vanity with a mirror, and a frosted glass shower stall beside it.
One of Salty's two heads, with its own glass shower stall.
Inside a sailboat head: a white shower stall with a handheld shower on a rail and glass doors, with sunlight through a port on the wood door.
A real shower stall on board, not just a handheld over the toilet.