As our readers know, the publishing world is in the midst of an upheaval as publications and readers turn to online outlets to deliver content. Naturally, we at OceanLines feel we’ve been helping to lead our audience of cruisers and passagemakers to that new online world of resources. Well, the publishing powerhouses continue to evolve [...]
Sometimes we advertise these changes weeks or months in advance. Sometimes we just spring ‘em on you. Like now. Welcome to the new OceanLines LLC corporate theme for both Oceanlines and Marine Science Today. The WordPress theme is the WP-Vybe theme from Solostream. It’s extremely flexible and well-written and we’re thrilled with it.
I am pleased to announce the upcoming debut on January 1, 2009, of a new online publication, Marine Science Today, dedicated to news, analysis, and discussion of modern marine science. With our heightened understanding of the central role played by the world’s oceans in controlling our climate and overall environment, there is both a need and a [...]
Welcome to the new and improved OceanLines (I always wondered about that slogan: Would anybody ever announce that something was new and ‘unimproved’?). You will notice a couple of major changes to the site. The two new, more sharply focused content areas are highlighted in the design. Readers interested in all things related to making [...]
OceanLines is about to undergo a major transformation. Over the past year, I have been carefully studying reader response to the various stories we’ve done and I’ve decided to re-design the website to focus more sharply on two specific content streams. OceanLines will, starting August 1, 2008, feature daily coverage of “passagemaking” and “marine science” [...]
Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of writing for Glen Justice at Mad Mariner (www.madmariner.com) and I’ve had a chance to work with his great crew there on a number of separate pieces. The first piece was an overview of the engine choices available to boaters today; covering everything from outboards to the drive pods [...]
Well, I finally got bit by the technology gremlins. My web-hosting service screwed up the servers and lost the last three days of data — and posts. I’ll re-create them and get them back up as quickly as possible. A quick re-cap — highlights for me from the Newport International Boat Show were new products [...]
One recent evening I was at a popular overlook near the mouth of a river that empties into Long Island Sound, watching with many others as a Bay Constable boat (unidentified to protect the guilty) attempted to attach a flashing light to the top of a locally maintained red buoy. The Constable Himself was behind the [...]
If you are passionate about something you no doubt have some opinions, perhaps even strong ones, about that subject. Does that mean you have to share them with the whole world? No. Clearly, most people on the planet really don’t care what you, or I, think. But, we’re rarely alone in our passions and that’s [...]
