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Meet a Mobile Bar Pilot: Dave Berault

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The People Behind the Industry

Oct 15, 2020 - - Christina Myles

The People Behind the Industry

The maritime industry at the most basic level is water commerce. It is the movement of goods, services, and people around the world by...

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Meet a Mobile Bar Pilot: Dave Berault

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CUT OF HIS JIB

Mariners took pride in their sails, including the jib (a type of triangular sail). A flapping jib, or a badly made one, was ridiculed. Today, we still gauge people by the "cut of their jib."