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New York’s Intrepid Air & Space Museum officially re-opened for business on Saturday for the first time since September 31, 2006.  The grand opening

Welcome to this 135th edition of Maritime Monday. NOTE: Did I miss something? I am currently traveling so feel free to email me via the address listed below

Note: This is not our gear or our ship. <-click for photographer details. This is an article that was originally posted in July, but with the holiday season

gCaptain is excited to announce that Barack Hussein Obama was elected today as the 44th president of the United States Of America. Just a few short weeks ago

While sifting through NOAA.gov, I came across the NOAA Shoreline Website, a guide to national shoreline data and terms.  This is just another free tool to add

[polldaddy poll=”1074177″] Curious which presidential canidate gCaptain supports? Our support runs parallel to that of The Unofficial Coast Guard

The following is posted by Fred Fry: NOTE: Did I miss something that you posted? I am currently traveling so feel free to email me via the address listed

The List Universe brings us: Top 10 Unsolved Mysteries Mystery number 2, the harrowing tail of the sailing ship: Mary Celeste Mary Celeste was launched in Nova

For a business to be successful you need hard work, willingness to accept risk and a touch of luck. For gCaptain the bit of luck was someone else’s

Depending on how you look at it, CNN reports some good news from the Gulf of Aden: Five attempts to hijack ships off the coast of Somalia were thwarted

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

The Port of New York and New Jersey have recently announced that the raising or replacing of the Bayonne Bridge could be upwards of $2B.  The bridge, which

Welcome to this 133rd edition of Maritime Monday. You can find Maritime Monday 83 here. (Published 5 November 2007) You can find last week’s edition

The Russian Ministry of Gas ordered the self- propelled crane vessel “Stanislav Yudin” from the Finnish Wartsilla shipyard in 1982. The crane

University of Michigan researchers are investigating a radical new design for cargo ships that would eliminate ballast tanks, the water-filled compartments

The famed paddle-wheeled steamboat, the Delta Queen, may be close to making its final commercial voyage come the end of the month. The 82-year-old Delta Queen

Photo by AMagill We all know the basics of knots. They rely on friction to cinch against themselves or an object, they reduce the breaking strength of a line

The gCaptain SPOT Messenger Contest is now closed and the units are in the mail but for those looking to get a unit of their own West Marine has

Welcome to this 132nd edition of Maritime Monday. You can find Maritime Monday 82 here. (Published 29 October 2007) You can find last week’s edition

Like It Or Not; It’s Here Fighting LNG Ship Fires Originally Published Sept 2007 By Tom Guldner, Marine Firefighting Inc. First, let me state that this