As obliquely mentioned recently in its comments following the Tasmanian state government’s controversial, completely illogical and inadequately explained decision to pu ..
Author: Neil Baird
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.
A fascinating, informative, interesting, and slightly sentimental collaboration brings to life this valuable history of crash boat operations during the Pacific War. The ..
The unmanned craft sector is undergoing a massive boom at present. This is particularly so at the smaller end of the market with new and interesting vessels being launche ..
This is yet another edition of the always dependably brilliant Clarksons registers. This one is up to the usually very high standard and benefits from a few incremental i ..
Normally we do not celebrate the lives of non-mariners on these pages, so Bernie Gerlinger, who died last week, and was certainly not a sailor, is a special case. Bernie ..
After a long and rather boring hiatus, the fishing and aquaculture sector seems to be reviving with a bang. Bigger, better-equipped and more stylish boats are coming on t ..
Despite the ongoing pandemic and the trail of fatalities that continues to blight ferry operations in certain developing countries, people, both rich and poor, want or ne ..
The ship and boat building business in the United States generally seems to be thought of as being primarily focused on defence. That, obviously, is only partially true. ..
The story of the entrepreneurial, managerial and organisational genius Henry Kaiser is well known, at least among older mariners and maritime historians. His particular g ..
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