Today a brand new 42mm Stainless Steel Apple Watch with Sapphire Crystal Display and a Black Leather band arrived at gCaptain HQ and we are giving it away for FREE...

This weekend we will see the biggest, brightest moon of 2013, and we want to see your photos!

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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…...

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...

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...

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...

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...

We are so excited by the capability of our Maritime News & Links Discoverer to bring you the best maritime related content that we have a HUGE announcement to make....