John Konrad

Catching a flight to your ship soon? Here are the best websites to help you get there on time: FAA’ s Real Time Flight Delay Status Map: LINK Seat

  Now you can sort through the hundreds of topics gCaptain has covered with the help of “the spinning globe”, our new tag cloud. Click HERE to

Damage caused by Hurricane Gustav along New Orlean’s Industrial Canal. Photo by Eric Gray, NPR. More photos can be seen at NPR’s Hurricane Gustav

Two new Golden Shellback items today. Above is a recent photo of Inventor Sid Martin with the equipment used to apply the coating and at the bottom of this

Digital Ship tells us: ORBCOMM has successfully  launched six  AIS-equipped satellites  (a  Coast Guard  Concept Demonstration satellite and  five

John Clandillon-Baker of pilotmag has been featured along with his fellow London pilot (retired) Geoff Taylor in an article written by Libby Purves of The

We just recorded episode 28 of Messing About In Ships, our weekly podcast about ships, and during the taping Peter Mello reminded me to follow up on our friend

Head over to IMC Broker’s blog to find a really good guide to tanker sizes. From Handy to ULCC this guide has pictures, descriptions and dead weight

Popular Science brings us Future Navy Ships – Littoral Combat Ship. They write: This is a small, fast ship (capable of 45 knots) for sub-hunting,

Photo By Jay Q The first documented lighthouse was in Alexandria Egypt, circa 290 BC. And today, lighthouses are an endangered species. Pharos Lighthouse stood

The most elegant ship built in decades has caught the inspiration of artists, photographers and ship spotters worldwide. She is elegant, record breaking and

Photo By Tom Jervis Last year Sid Martin, Director of Technology at Northeast Maritime Institute was faced with a dilemma. He had been hired to spearhead a

  The most technologically advanced drillship in the world is not on lovaton in the gulf of mexico or in a Korean shipyard. Actually it’s not even

gCaptain just returned from a whirlwind tour of San Francisco with the Northeast Maritime Institute’s Golden Shellback development team. Highlighting the

CNN tells us: The 420,000-gallon oil spill polluting 98 miles of the Mississippi River happened early Wednesday when a 61-foot barge carrying the fuel collided

Golden Shellback Waterproof Coating from gCaptain on Vimeo. This is video of the Golden Shellback coating in action. We will be keeping you updated with more

How would you rate the TWIC process? ( surveys) . How would you rate your experience getting a TWIC Card? Leave your comments below. Procrastinating? Check out

1. Who developed this coating? a. Northeast Maritime Institute in Fairhaven, MA USA has an engineering group under its sister company Transportation Security

This is a word cloud depicting the most commonly used words this week on gCaptain. Thanks to Peter Mello for pointing us to this neat feature at

Our friends at theboaters.com have came up with a fun game called “Complete The Caption”. Each day they post a new photo submitted by their users