seamanship

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Seamanship and navigation are the core of what officers will do when they go to sea, according to the Naval Academy’s seamanship and navigation chair Cmdr.

From Washington Times • Mar. 11, 2018

Ryan Rogers, the deputy chairman of the academy’s Department of Seamanship and Navigation.

From Washington Times • Nov. 1, 2015

The OED cites the Manual of Seamanship for Boys: "A parbuckle... is used for hauling up or lowering down a cask... where there is no crane or tackle."It's owl.

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2013

Seamanship was never an issue; the battle had been won and lost long months before on the designers' drawing boards.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its title was, An Inquiry into some Points of Seamanship, by a man Towser, Towson—some such name—Master in his Majesty's Navy.

From Heart of Darkness by Conrad, Joseph