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Risk Assessment for Offshore Passagemaking - Part II   Steve D'Antonio All photos copyright Steve D'Antonio   Newfoundland Bound     Fair winds, clear skies, and a well-found vessel makes for picture perfect...

Text and photos © 2020 Steve D'Antonio Marine Consulting, Inc. From the Masthead A few months ago, while carrying out an inspection on a new vessel,...

From the Masthead Knowing When to Self-Regulate I’m writing this column while in flight, as I return from a week-long trip to Taiwan.  While there I...

From the Masthead Engine Room Fire; Lessons Learned Of all the tragedies that can befall a vessel, fire is, in my opinion, the most catastrophic.  Flooding...

From the Masthead Seamanship Anyone? While I concentrate on vessel construction and systems, i.e., gensets, engines, electrical, steering, and propulsion systems, I’m a firm believer in...

Text and photos by Steve D’Antonio Copyright © 2016 From the Masthead Have you tasted the tea lately?  About two years ago, in order to make time zone transition easier,...

From the Masthead The AI Conundrum Hardly a day goes by that I don’t receive an email from a client or reader, posing a question, and...

Text and photos © 2019 Steve D'Antonio Marine Consulting, Inc. From the Masthead For those who don’t know it, Taiwan is a mecca for boat building...

Recently, an SDMC consulting client who is in the process of having a 68-foot cruising vessel built, contacted me.  He posed several important questions regarding...

Text and photos © 2020 Steve D'Antonio Marine Consulting, Inc. From the Masthead Hotel Quarantine Imagine spending two weeks in a hotel, without setting foot outside the...