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Chef Ben Robinson aboard a superyacht

Five Questions With Chef Ben Robinson

Six seasons on Below Deck, twenty-hour days in a yacht galley, and midnight paddleboarding on a Fort Lauderdale lake. Also: he prefers the fries at McDonald's.

Waiting on the flats, two anglers on a skiff

The Tarpon King: On the Hook With David Mangum

He caught a 215-pounder. The world record is 202. Taking the record would have meant killing the fish, so he let it go. Inside the obsessive...

A living area looking out toward the Gulf of Mexico

Coastal Casual (Without the Kitsch): Five Tips From Vern Yip

Three homes in Rosemary Beach and not one of them blue and white. The designer on citrine walls, quartz instead of marble, and why there is...

The poster for the documentary Sand In My Soul

Sand In His Soul: Shane Reynolds and a Decade-Long Documentary

Sixty-five countries for National Geographic and the BBC, and the hardest film he ever made was about home. Four broken projectors and ten years later, Sand...

An aerial view of Grayton Beach on the Gulf Coast

Red Bar Reborn: A Gulf Coast Icon Roars Back to Life

The lease was written on a paper napkin. Twenty-four years later it burned to the ground at 5:30 in the morning. By that afternoon all 112...

XPT coach Sean Miller doing push-ups on the sand

Breathe, Move, Recover: The Waterman's Way to a Healthier Life

Laird Hamilton learned to stay calm under giant waves by carrying stones along the sea floor. That idea became XPT, and a coach on 30A is...

An aerial view of two beachgoers on empty white sand

The Panhandler

Burt is a diehard local. He has never strayed far from the water, he winters on a little old lady from Michigan, and he is watching...