A Beginners' Guide to Sailing

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Learning to sail is one of the best ways to familiarise yourself with the basics of operating a vessel on water. Many of the terms draw acro...

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Laytime & Demurrage: A Back-to-Basics Guide

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One of the more mysterious elements of shipping law, at least to the uninitiated, are the issues of laytime and demurrage. I thought, for th...

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Acronyms

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This is a collection of terms that I have built up after being asked by someone what something means or which I have heard people appear to ...

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Glossary

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This is a collection of terms that I have built up after being asked by someone what something means or which I have heard people appear to ...

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Q: Master, Captain or Skipper?

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All three of these terms refer to the person in ultimate charge of a vessel.  Every person in overall command of a vessel is the Captain of ...

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