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gCaptain Birthday Contest Winners

May 6th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Congratulations to Mr. Platt and Viessman, grand winners in our birthday contest. Our winners will be receiving:

Apple iPod

Sony Noise Canceling Headphones
gCaptain tshirt (Pirchase Your t-shirt HERE)

Congratulations also go to our second place winners who will receive a Starbucks gift card. They are kenschinn, I.fellows, oscarjack, engle and Tim Flanagan.
Why Starbucks? Find out HERE.
Here is […]

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gCaptain Birthday Givaway

May 1st, 2008 · 33 Comments

Photo by Cinnamon
In a short few days gCaptain will reach two big milestones…. one million pageviews and our first birthday!
In celebration we are giving away a pair of prize baskets… one for each milestone! Both winners will receive the following:

Apple iPod

Sony Noise Canceling Headphones
gCaptain tshirt (Pirchase Your t-shirt HERE)

Runners up:
5 runners up will receive Starbucks […]

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gCaptain Aquired By Unofficial Networks For $1.9 Million US

April 1st, 2008 · 9 Comments

While not quite the payday other blogs have recently enjoyed we are very excited to announce a new partnership with an amazing company called Unofficial Networks. We are still inking the deal so I can’t discuss the merger in full detail but I can LINK to THIS video post from Chief Negotiator Richard Astley.
Techcrunch has […]

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Tags: Humor · Uncategorized · gCaptain

gCaptain Logo Store - Now Open

March 30th, 2008 · 8 Comments

We are happy to announce we are continuing our partnership with CafePress.com who will be providing us with gCaptain Schwag featuring our famous Anchor Logo. In addition to the plain white t-shirt we are offering certified organic cotton shirts, stickers, magnets and even ceramic tile beer coasters!

To start supporting your favorite site now: gCaptain’s Logo […]

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Google Toolbar Buttons - Maritime Edition

March 27th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Introducing gCaptain’s Google Toolbar buttons.
How do you get them?

Click on one of the images then…
if you already have Google’s Toolbar installed then a small anchor button will be added to it.
if you don’t have the Toolbar then you will be allowed to add it to your browser.

Once installed, how do they work?

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Reuters & Sail Magazine

March 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Congrats to gCaptain contributer Richard Rodriguez for the recent syndication of his post on whaling protests by Reuters. Next stop a Pulitzer for his coverage of the Washington State Ferry dibacles on his blog The BitterEnd.
For more of gCaptain at the news stand be sure to check out the next issue of Sail Magazine […]

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Bug Report - Maritime Jobs Mashup Online

March 9th, 2008 · No Comments

We are cleaning up after our migration to a new dedicated server by squashing waterbugs as we find them. Today we fixed our mash-ups. Take a look:
News

gCaptain News
Maritime News
Offshore News
Maritime Blogs

Jobs

Maritime Jobs

Many thanks for your patience during our growing pains. If you stumble across any more bugs please leave a comment below and we’ll take […]

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Enjoy Ships? Fluent in Wiki? Help us launch a new feature.

March 4th, 2008 · 11 Comments

Are you familiar with Wikipedia? We have installed the same software running the site that put thousands of encyclopedia salesmen out of business. What do we plan on doing with the software? Giving it to you of course!
The new gCaptain wiki will offer a place for mate’s to share voyage plans, engineers to share drawing […]

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Stand-By - As we put the final touches on our new server.

March 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

photo by Jim Hartland
If you see this post it means your viewing the gCaptain from our brand new Dedicated Server!
STBY - normal ops to resume shortly.

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gCaptain’s Newest Contributer - John Denham

February 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment

I want to welcome a new member to our team, John G. Denham, Captain USN (retired), Master Mariner (5-12 License), San Francisco Bar, and Bay and River pilot with Puget Sound endorsements. A veteran of 66 years maritime experience in seamanship, ship handling, navigation, piloting, education, writing and management. From focs’le to Pentagon, […]

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