Tampa Bay · Known at the dock as Captain Johny
Stories, songs, and salt.
Gulf novels, original trop-rock, island shirts, and the charters he still runs at first light. The world is the product.
Read
The Ballast Point novels
Gulf adventures with a weather eye. Hardcovers you can take on the boat and not treat like a relic.
Listen
Original trop-rock
Songs from this dock, this tide, this voice. Vinyl, a songbook, and a radio that is not a tribute act.
Wear
Island kit, Tampa-cut
The camp shirt they ask for, linen that wrinkles on purpose, and the gear that already has salt in it.
This week on the dock
What the crew is carrying.
The Helm Tee
$48.00
Heavyweight cotton. Fades like a good day on the water.
Half-Day Inshore
$550.00
Four hours on the flats. Redfish, snook, and a running tide.
Captain's Catch Box
$89.00
Gulf snapper, packed like it still owes you a fight.
Ballast Camp Shirt
$148.00
The shirt the Gulf puts on after the fish are in.
The Last Outgoing
$28.00
A Tampa Bay novel. The boat is named Wasn't Me. The noise is not the fuel pump.
Wasn't Me
$8.00
The first single. Johny's voice. Tampa water.
The official likeness
Captain Johny is the name. The face is the one on the books.
Locals already know the nickname. The novels, the records, and the shirts use the rendered likeness — not a civilian name. The man still runs the morning tide. The character does the talking in town.
Charters
The high-ticket is still a boat.
Shirts and novels scale. A morning on the flats does not. Four hours, a moving tide, Johny at the helm. That is how strangers become crew.
See the tripsGet on the crew list.
Chapters, drops, and the odd tide note. No civilian name required. No spam from a man who barely checks email.