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As it says at the foot of every page of MarineZine 'The views and opinions of contributors to this publication are not necessarily shared by the editors or publishers. Accordingly, the publishers and editors disclaim all responsibility for such views and opinions'.

As to any statements made by the editors themselves: we believe in freedom of speech but would never deliberately offend or cause hurt to any innocent individual or group of individuals. 

In the event of our unwittingly upsetting anyone we will be only too pleased to apologise if their complaint is a reasonable one.
Although we are fortunate enough to have the telephone numbers of a several kindly lawyers (no that is not always a contradiction in terms!) who might offer a few words of advice, we are without sufficient means to pay lawyers to check our every word before it is aired or to represent us in the event of litigation. But then again we are without sufficient means to be worth entering into litigation with in the first place. We do have plenty of space on the website in which to carry apologies, though, so we could offer to grovel abjectly in cyberspace if the need ever arises...well, honestly, we shouldn't even have to be considering such matters but we've been told that one of our readers is very touchy about almost everything so we thought we'd better get things straight from the start...

It is to be hoped that this website will meet with your approval. Efforts at improvement will be made on a continuing basis. 
Unfortunately, there was a bit of a technical hitch,  the day before the original intended launch of this magazine and we were obliged to wait until we could take the laptop, with its dead hard-drive, to the United States and avail ourselves of a brilliant (but, although very reasonable in comparison to most others, still very costly in terms of our budget!) data recovery service, and the Toshiba Guarantee Service (both under the auspices of the same company). After that there was an ocean to be crossed, amongst other delays, so the path to the launching has been far from smooth! 

The delays did, however, enable us to do a lot more work on the site, so it was probably just as well! 
All photography is by Linnet Woods unless otherwise stated. 
Of course what we need is a Mike Payton clone to draw cartoons for us and have us all rolling in the gunwhales but it may be some time before we can afford one! Any volunteers?

Want to know exactly what is on here?
 

ABOUT LANGUAGE: The current set of editors working on MarineZine (the majority of them, anyway, or at least the ones with the power to write stuff on this page) use British English because that is our native language. If readers use US English, or any other kind, in their e-mails to us, we will respect that and put it in, unchanged. We will also be happy to carry articles in other languages, and would be very grateful for any that come with a translation into English. We have several European languages, so you should feel free to include a version, in your own language, of anything you send us in English, if you are concerned that your written English may be open to misinterpretation and you would like us to check it.
We prefer to receive material which contains no obscenities but, if we do, we will edit them out if the material in itself merits the effort, otherwise we will simply delete it and forget it, so attempts to shock will be entirely wasted. We're sailors, for goodness sake! Our parrot probably knows worse words than most people but we can see no reason to publish them and add to the mental pollution of the planet. 

Although some of the work initially got done ashore, with the handy dandy  laptop plugged into the power supply of one accommodating refreshments establishment or another, the part that doesn't involve meeting, or trying to meet, people with a story to tell, is all done aboard the staysail schooner Leopard Normand III, wherever she happens to be...

THANKS:  We'd like to thank everyone who has helped to make this magazine a reality, to apologise to those who expected it to appear on the Internet a lot sooner and wasted time trying to find it before it was 'up' and to express the hope that anyone who reads this will add to the magazine in whatever way feels appropriate - suggestions, criticisms, news, views, stories, queries, information, anything and everything...it is only going to work in the long term if we all participate in an active way...
To those who have been so kind as to let us publish their words and pictures in this first issue, our heartfelt thanks and sorry for being such bullies!

This MarineZine is dedicated to the memory of all who have lived and died by the sea, the future of sailing and of  journalism online.

OTHER SITES WHICH SEEM TO CONTAIN SIMILAR MATERIAL:
The prototype of this magazine was first issued on a website built by a third party and hosted by a friend of his. Unfortunately the arrangement was unsatisfactory in every respect and the Managing Editor had no option but to withdraw the magazine from that website and teach herself the art of  website construction, or at least the basics thereof. 

The website host and webmaster decided to put the original version of the magazine back on their website, in breach of our copyright and infringing the intellectual property laws, despite repeated written requests to desist from so doing.

If you have seen a different-looking version of part of the material on this site, elsewhere, that is what you were looking at. 
We would like it to be known that we do not and will never, give our permission for any material created by us to be used by the webmaster in question or anyone known to us to be associated with him. 

The same goes for the host server of that site who, incidentally, again in conjunction with the same webmaster, hi-jacked the domain we had paid to register, www.leopard-normand.com and used the website upon it, for which we had also paid, for their own ends, to the extent of having any mail addressed to the site routed to themselves, a fact which we demonstrated to our satisfaction by sending letters from different e-mail addresses under different names, to our website,  none of which were ever received by us, with one exception, when the webmaster forwarded one which only had an Internet cafe address and was, therefore no use to him. 

It also implied that the writers were old friends of ours. We can accept neither responsibility nor liability for anything which appears on any site belonging to any other organisation, regardless of whether our names and offers purporting to be made by us appear therein, or not.