All this could have nourished dreams in an ambitious young man with nautical experience.

This was insisted on for the many paintings commissioned by captains, ship-owners and others with nautical knowledge, and many of the artists had nautical experience themselves.

These nautical experiences were at times violent; he witnessed the French Army bombing Port Said.

In midtown a nautical culinary experience awaits at Oceana, 55 East 54th Street, (212) 759-5941.

A central element of the book are the complex relationships between the crew members, in whose depiction de Hartog's personal nautical experience is manifest.

Most of those joining had no nautical experience at all.

The producers have given the role to an actor with nautical experience; he played a crew member on the big-screen Titanic.

Her captain was Joshua E. Ilbery, a master with 30 years nautical experience.

Having grown up on and around the water, his views were colored by his nautical experiences.

"Their only nautical experience had been racing sailboats," he said, "and they wanted to know what it was like to do it professionally."