Once your reviewer gained the strength to lift its 500, bigger than A4, hard-covered pages, he not so much read this book as devoured it. It is a brilliant and priceless ..
Co-founder and former Editor-in-Chief of Baird Maritime and Work Boat World magazine, Neil has travelled the length and breadth of this planet in over 40 years in the business. He knows the global work boat industry better than anyone.
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Once your reviewer gained the strength to lift its 500, bigger than A4, hard-covered pages, he not so much read this book as devoured it. It is a brilliant and priceless ..
Written by Neil Baird on . Posted in Aquaculture World, Ausmarine - Featured, Ausmarine - Fishing and Aquaculture, Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Fishing Boat World Features, Work Boat World.
The Hon John Kerin AO died earlier this week. He was undoubtedly Australia’s best ever minister of agriculture and fisheries. He was a well-educated chicken farmer ..
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This is a big, beautifully produced “coffee table book” that is in reality much more than just pretty pictures, although it contains many of those. It is also ..
Written by Neil Baird on . Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Book Reviews, Commercial Mariner - Featured, Dry Cargo World, Ship World Features, Work Boat World, Work Boat World Features.
While still only in manuscript form, I found this book to be delightfully fascinating. It is available in electronic format direct from its author. What a life! From an u ..
Written by Neil Baird on . Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Ausmarine - Passenger Vessels, Ferries, Maritime Tourism, Ro-Pax World, Search and Rescue, Work Boat World Features.
Following a very poor year for known ferry fatalities in 2021, the year 2022 saw a big improvement with the known death toll almost halved from 1,378 to 699. However, we ..
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Throughout his now lengthy life, Port Lincoln-based fisherman Joe Puglisi has been one of the great innovators, leaders, and entrepreneurs of the Australian fishing indus ..
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Paul Strachan will be a wee bit familiar to regular readers of Baird Maritime. His articles on riverine tourism in South-East Asia have intrigued us recently. He is an ex ..
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Maritime history is continually being refined and revised as new discoveries are made and conventional wisdom and self-perpetuating myths are found to be wrong. This book ..
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As always, retired English judge Quintin Barry has meticulously researched his subject. In this case, it is the rapid development of Britain’s Royal Navy in the tumultu ..
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