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Maritime Publishing of San Diego has acquired the parent company of Ocean Navigator and its companion publication, Professional Mariner. The sale included both of Navigator Publishing’s print magazines and their respective websites, newsletters and email marketing products. The agreement, which closed in mid-March, has Ocean Navigator and Professional Mariner joining Maritime Publishing’s two other magazine titles: Pacific Maritime and Fishermen’s News. Maritime Publishing previously acquired those publications from Philips Publishing Group of Seattle. Both magazines, which ceased publication early in the COVID-19 pandemic, are set to re-launch this spring. Abrams, an experienced mariner, will serve as publisher for the new…