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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?

• Clicking on the anchor will bring you to our Maritime Industry Custom Search Engine (CSE) or our google powered site search (depending on which you install).
• Clicking on the arrow next to it will display the tiles of our latest blog post OR the latest Maritime News from Discoverer.

Our suggestion:

• Try out the Google CSE button first. If you like it then return and install the gCaptain site search button.

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 for an article by our very own cp-founder, John Konrad (with much help and advisment from Panbo).

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 a look.

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 and everyone to share facts, photos and information about their favorite ships . First on the agenda is a dedicated TWIC page for U.S. mariners.

Before we launch the new feature, however, we need help. Namely a person familiar with editing Wikipedia who can administer our site. This is a paid position perfect for a cadet or young mariner. Contact us for more details.

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.

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, from pilot house to courtroom, from classroom to senior management he will share his successes and failures in contributions to our blog. Welcome Captain Denham, nice to have you on board.

If you’re interested in reading more from Captain Denham be sure to pick up his books DD 891 and The Assistant, A Sea Story which can be found at Amazon.com or by contacting him directly.

In last week’s poll we asked you to identify a topic for a possible new gCaptain blog. These are the results.

If you are interested in becoming the editor of an “Interesting Ships” or “Maritime Gadget” section please Contact Us.

User	News	Published	Comments	Total votes	Published votes	Karma
john	794	287 (36%)	36	1307	530 (40%)	10.00
Tim	96	21 (21%)	2	965	334 (34%)	10.00
mike22	227	67 (29%)	9	768	318 (41%)	10.00
Kt2headwall	4	2 (50%)	1	455	117 (25%)	10.00
captsmith	38	13 (34%)	2	252	77 (30%)	10.00
wb6nah	102	65 (63%)	6	126	75 (59%)	10.00
seafever	44	31 (70%)	4	102	51 (50%)	10.00
FredFry	49	29 (59%)	3	99	40 (40%)	10.00
seamate	10	2 (20%)	0	94	22 (23%)	10.00
cmjeff	7	4 (57%)	0	83	28 (33%)	10.0

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To start voting on your favorite stories. Watch the video below then click HERE.

 

 Maritime News Tutorial: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Thanks to YOU the reader gCaptain’s stats are soring with over 50,000 unique individuals logging in every month! Along with growth comes expansion and change, a process we want you to participate in! One idea is to separate our blog’s content into sections, each headed by an editor. Let us know your thoughts about this idea by taking our poll:

If you’re interested in becoming a gCaptain editor please Contact Us.

gCaptain’s Founder recently did an interview with Remco de Zeeuw of IMC’s blog. Those interested can find it HERE.