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Maritime Photo Scam

Maritime Photo Contest? More like, “We want unlimited rights to your best photos, but don’t want to pay for them”

By On January 7, 2011

In case you see an ad such as this one: Make sure you read the fine print under the “Rules & Terms”.  In this case it reads: “By entering the [...]

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Competition calls for innovative life jacket designs

By On November 9, 2010

Here at gCaptain.com, we are big proponents of safety in the workplace and often times for us professional mariners, that means reporting on technologies that are going to keep us [...]

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Name That Ship – What Is it?

By On September 20, 2010

We are looking for a few specifics on this interesting vessel including:

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Interesting Ship of the Week – Split Hull Oil Recover Vessel (SHORV)

By On June 10, 2010

Earlier this week we challenged gCaptain readers in a contest to identify a rather odd looking ship (shown above).  Sure enough, the first commentor “Philip” nailed it, point us to [...]

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gCaptain Contest: What is that?

By On June 8, 2010

We came across the above image while reading an article titled “WTF is that?!”.  Quite frankly, it got us thinking:  WTF is that? Be the first person to correctly identify [...]

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Ugliest Ship Contest

By On February 13, 2009

To help promote our friends at The Ugly Ship blog we are starting a contest for the ugliest ship. The top 5 contest winners, as voted on by our forum [...]

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International Shiphandling Championship 2009

By On November 19, 2008

gCaptain is excited to announce, in partnership with TRANSAS, Professional Mariner Magazine and Northeast Maritime Institute, the First Annual International Shiphandling Championship to be held at Northeast Maritime’s Fairhaven, Massachusetts [...]

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Mini Contest: What Is This?

By On October 28, 2008

We are giving away a free SPOT t-shirt to the first person who can tell us about what is going on in this image. Let us know in the comments… [...]

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SPOT Messenger Contest – The Results Are In!

By On October 8, 2008

We are excited to announce the winners of our SPOT Messenger Contest. They have been chosen randomly from our list of comment contributors during the contest period. Overall a very [...]

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gCaptain Birthday Contest Winners

By On May 6, 2008

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 [...]

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gCaptain Birthday Givaway

By On May 1, 2008

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 [...]

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MAIS Podcast – Episode 5

By On January 5, 2008

Episode 5 of Messing About In Ships is launched! Download the MP3 file here: Messing About In Ships podcast #5 This week’s highlights: “A Mariner’s Perspective” with Master Mariner Captain [...]

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