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From the Logbook

The Logbook

Flight stories, restaurant discoveries, and seafood adventures — notes from the cockpit, the dock, and every crab shack in between.

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Working People
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What a Shrimp Boat Captain and an Airline Pilot Have in Common

Weather decisions, early mornings, trusting your instruments, and the weight of bringing everyone home safe. The parallels between the wheelhouse and the cockpit run deeper than you'd think.

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Origin Story
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Why Seafood? A Pilot's Case for Coastal America

How a kid busing tables at a Virginia Beach seafood buffet and a grandfather's marinara on the Delaware Bay turned into a life spent chasing America's coastline from the cockpit.

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Seafood Culture
2 min read

The Blue Crab Is American. Period.

Callinectes sapidus exists naturally only in the Americas. That's not trivia — it's the foundation of a story about American coastal identity that most people have never heard.

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Behind the Scenes
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Overnight Layovers and Open Kitchens

The best stories happen after the tourists leave. What happens when a curious pilot walks into a restaurant kitchen at 9pm in a town he's never been to.

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Destinations
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Gear Down, Claws Out: Flying Into America's Forgotten Seafood Towns

Apalachicola. Bayou La Batre. Crisfield. Most people fly over these towns at thirty-five thousand feet. Here's why they're worth landing for.

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Aviation Culture
3 min read

The $100 Crab Cake Run

Pilots have been flying somewhere just to eat since the Wright Brothers. CrabbyPilot takes aviation's oldest tradition and gives it a destination guide.

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Origin Story
3 min read

The Kid Who Helped Open Captain George's

In 1985, a high school kid helped open a seafood restaurant in Williamsburg. Forty years later, he's a pilot building a map to places just like it. This is where CrabbyPilot really started.

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