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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...

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 I began working in the marine industry as a mechanic and electrician back in 1988.  At that time, I was in the...

From the Editor A Million Miles' Worth of Boats I’ve been on the road for much of the last few months, from cruising in Greenland, the...

Life Raft Details  Part II   Make certain you understand how life raft security and deployment mechanisms are designed to work, don't assume they've been properly rigged. ...

Text and photos © 2019 Steve D'Antonio Marine Consulting, Inc. From the Masthead The Value of Time Not long ago, a client and I spoke about the...

Complacency and Situational Awareness By Bill Band Photos by Steve D'Antonio and Captain Bill Band A pilot boat carries its all too important cargo,a skilled pilot, to...

Text and photos © 2019 Steve D'Antonio Marine Consulting, Inc. From the Masthead Building a Boat Overseas Not surprisingly, I’m writing the final ‘From the Masthead’ column...

From the Masthead Readers may have noticed that the Marine Systems Excellence eMagazine missed a deadline last week.  That was intentional, however, we also had...

Text and photos by Steve D'Antonio Copyright © 2016 From the Masthead When you read this I’ll be aboard MIGRATION, a Nordhavn 68, cruising among the islands of Norway’s...