A recent short article in Seaways, the journal of the Nautical Institute, sang the praises of having a positive attitude towards change. The author, Tom Feakins MNI, ..
Author: Alan Loynd
Alan Loynd is a master mariner with extensive seagoing and shore experience, especially in the areas of salvage and towage. He is the former General Manager of the renowned Hong Kong Salvage and Towage company. He now runs his own marine consultancy and was chairman of the International Tugmasters Association.
In his book The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins expands upon the idea that a gene behaves not in a way that is beneficial to the carrier of the gene, but in a way that is ..
Forgive me, gentle reader, I am not referring to that Mr. Bean, but rather to Martin Bean, who is said to be vice-chancellor of the Royal Melbourne Institute of ..
In an interesting article for the Nautical Institute journal, a young captain who had recently completed his training complained about, “how outdated the syllabus is in ..
Your scribe grew up in a time when professionals were supposed to know what they were doing. Most professionals and tradesmen had done an apprenticeship or some other ..
Several pieces of news caught my eye recently, and I suppose they could all be classified, in very general terms, as aspects of sustainability. First, and most obviously ..
It is hard not to write about the Covid-19 pandemic at the moment, since it is dominating public discourse and headlines around the world, but there are so many different ..
A whole series of disastrous events caught my eye recently, because they all involved tugs and all took place in the same country. And while we know you cannot believe ..
Stephen Fry wrote that, “if a columnist has a single solemn duty, it is to make predictions for the New Year.” Well, I am sorry Mr. Fry, but I am well aware of the ..
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