Tonci Botica grew up on a small Mediterranean island, where almost everyone goes to sea and where the first European long-distance traveller ever saw...
[caption id="attachment_67405" align="alignnone" width=""]London Royal Docks[/caption]Ships don’t seem to have “home ports” any more – they circle the...
[caption id="attachment_65602" align="alignnone" width=""]Mayflower II[/caption]The Sea is a Magic Carpet was the title of the very first book written...
Looking back on it, the voyage seemed altogether improbable. The ship was an 1,100DWT coaster, registered for some strange reason in Singapore.
[caption id="attachment_64970" align="alignnone" width=""]Tokyo Express[/caption]I actually wanted to be a pilot – just like my grandfather, who had...
I had a wrathful email the other day, not because of anything I wrote, but from a maritime college lecturer deploring the treatment of a group of engineer...
Coming through a tricky section of waterway in the Moreton Bay Islands, the car ferry 'Seaway' came to a sudden silence as all engines died. This four-engined...
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