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Navagear points us to “Rite in the Rain”:
The folks from “Rite in the Rain” were at the Pacific Marine Expo, and I picked up a brochure, an all-weather pen, and another pocket-sized spiral notebook…thanks guys!
See, I use these products every day. Into my pockets each morning go my keys, wallet, coin purse, cell phone, and […]

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Our Favorite Maritime Photographer, Houston Pilot Lou Vest, has donated a few of his amazing photos to the pilot association’s charitable foundation, Anchor Watch. They will use the images to produce a 2008 calendar with the proceeds funding scholarships to maritime schools, sea scout troops, the Houston maritime museum and other worthy causes.
Purchase details and […]

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gCaptain readers know we are big fans of Pelican Cases and Flashlights and may also know that we have destroyed memory cards in the past. This is why we are excited about a simple new product from our favorite tough guys; Pelican’s Memory Card Cases.
Our plan; purchase Sanyo’s Xacti Waterproof Flash Memory Camcorder protect […]

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MaritimeLinks.net (a must see site) brings us what is reportedly “The Worlds Sexiest Sextant” or less smashingly called the Cassens & Plath Horizon Ultra. Why? Here’s their answer:
WIRED magazine recently ran an article that was a real surprise to me: It was about a sextant, and a very good looking sextant at that! This old […]

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Panbo, the marine electronics blog, brings us today’s gCaptain Holiday Gift Suggestion. The unit is the SPOT Satellite Messenger & Emergency Locater and it’s fairly amazing.
First a note. This is not a substitute for the most important safety item aboard ship an EPIRB. If you are looking for the best personal emergency solution we […]

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I continuation of our gift guide we have teamed up with chitika to bring you some great deals from around the web. Just search in our new holiday portal to find great prices and gift ideas.
Links:
gCaptain’s Holiday Deals
gCaptain’s Holiday Gift Ideas

(The amazing photo above is by anacm.silva)

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We continue our gCaptain gift guide with Planet Earth DVD Series. This series by the BBC is simply amazing and looks stunning on a plasma TV. For those not familiar the show is appropriately called “the definitive look at the diversity of our planet”. The clip above is shown in the first of 11 […]

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Over the next few weeks we are going to be sharing gift ideas. So if you have a loved on who is a Captain, Mate, Engineer or just a boater sailing the ocean keep an eye on our new Gifts Section.
Our first pick is a device that has made my life at sea significantly more […]

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As mates, masters and pilots of really big ships we get plenty of bragging rights on the waterfront but the small guys have one thing on us, cool handheld electronics. Sure we (well most of us) have million dollar GMDSS, VSAT, ECDIS and radar systems that would make any geek drool but the small interesting […]

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