October 28, 2026
14 min
Captain Boomies Uncensored: What it's like to be a woman in the marine industry
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What is it like to work as a woman in the marine industry? Captain Boomies explains why standing out in a male-dominated field has worked in her favor, and why the confidence behind it was earned through mistakes and good mentors. 🛎️ Subscribe to Current Yachts
Recorded at the Current Yachts booth at the 2026 Annapolis Powerboat Show, Maryline Bossar and Amanda Haley sit down with Captain Boomies, a captain, boating influencer, and brand ambassador with 25 years of professional maritime experience. She shares what she has learned teaching couples to run a boat together: most docking stress comes from crews who never swap jobs and don’t know what the other role demands. Her coaching differs by person. She teaches men to fail gracefully and women to be willing to fail, sometimes by bumping the dock on purpose.
The conversation also turns to money. Captain Boomies sees women captains being underpaid, often because they care so much about the boat that it stops feeling like a job. Amanda shares the pushback she has met as a female yacht broker, which comes from fellow brokers rather than clients, and how Current Yachts answers it with a transparent brokerage model.
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