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
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
They called them the “Sailing Calicchio Brothers” because Dom, Fred, and Michael all were sea captains. Dom is famous among
