Maritime, Travel and Conservation
Thoughts on issues and entertainments of our day.
Need a good maritime read during virus lockdown? Here are two free online books — one on the Marine Electric; the other on the SS El Faro to pass the time.
Ready or Not, Here She Comes. President Trump Orders the USNS Comfort to Manhattan
In a bittersweet irony for the American merchant marine, stocks of foreign-flag cruise vessels shot up yesterday in anticipation of
Opponents have underestimated Joe Biden since day one. He thrives off those errors.
gcaptain.com/top-10-reasons-why-the-us-merchant-marine-is-failing/ Captain Conrad and gCap nail it
(Circa 1981. The Inquirer had given me a lot of leash to follow the story of the SS Poet and
We covered some ground in February. Here is a recap of posts for the month. (Note: Last post here is
Here’s Chapter Two of this work in progress. (Chapter One is here if you missed it earlier.) All of this
A divergence from maritime books, here’s a piece on my other interest: Africa conservation and human-animal conflict. This grew from
So our latest dispatches determine with conviction that half of America’s Jones Act cargo fleet is every bit as creaky
