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 and allow you to.... well, the title s self explanatory. A fun game and I hope to find more of our readers signing up for theboaters.com to help represent the professional side of nautical endeavors. You can find our profile HERE … [Read more...]
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to gCaptain's readers but especially to those at sea this year and the family missing you back home. … [Read more...]
The Crunchies – Support Your Favorite Sites
We received this note nominating us for "Most Likely To Succeed" start-up in Techcrunch's Web 2.0 award contest "The Crunchies" gCaptain is making a difference in the safety, life and enjoyment of mariners. I think you have bright future so I nominated gCaptain for The Crunchie 'Most Likely To Succeed'. Keep up the good work, I enjoy watching you grow. -CB Thanks CB, we're … [Read more...]
Ship of the Day – Saipem 7000
Ship of the Day brings us the Saipem 7000; Today's SotD is world's second largest crane vessel Saipem 7000 (IMO: 8501567, Port of Registry: Nassau, Bahama's) with a lifting capacity of 2 x 7,000 tonnes. Only Heerema's Thialf is larger with its lifting capacity of 2 x 7,100 tonnes, however the crane radius of Saipem 7000 grant a lifting capability of 14000 t at 42 … [Read more...]
Hull Inspection Video – More Exciting Than It Sounds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxDH2CS7c0I We're hard at work on some interesting new features including a visualization of the Cosco Busan incident in San Francisco Bay. Since the Captain has called "All Hands on Deck" for this project we are relying on some of our friends for content this week. This video comes via the daily must visit site; Sea-Fever.org. As an example … [Read more...]
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving to all our readers at home and away at sea. Since launching gCaptain in late May we have logged over 100,000 unique visitors and over 300,000 pageviews and are very thankful for your support in spreading the word. … [Read more...]
National Hero Award Nominee – Brian Tolkin
Photo by Scott Cohen/ Special to the Seattle Times Seattle Teenager who takes cancer patients boating could win National Hero Award From BYM news: "Seventeen year old Brian Tolkin spends his free time boating on Lake Washington and Puget Sound for a good cause. Four years ago, Tolkin co-founded the nonprofit organization Beams and Dreams to provide cancer patients, … [Read more...]