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June 22, 2014

Back to life, after a great big wave

Seaspan’s Brian Carter received a token of appreciation for his update on NSPS from MC Malcolm Barker As I type this, we are sailing across the Gulf of St Lawrence, having discharged a load of aggregate in Summerside, where I joined the ship. We are proceeding to Sept Iles to load Aluminum, bound for Oswego, via the St Lawrence Seaway....

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June 7, 2014

Worthwhile time sucking vortex

After 20 meetings, about 4000 emails and countless hours of work, Marine Engineering – The New Wave 2014 is finally here. The event is a technical conference and exhibition for marine professionals and the planning is nearly complete, with less than a week to go. We have an broad series of papers to be presented and a full room of...

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June 7, 2014

Worthwhile time sucking vortex

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April 11, 2014

Technical program released by The New Wave

Tee New Wave Organizing Committee The Vancouver Island Branch of the Canadian Institute of Marine Engineering is hosting “Marine Engineering: The New Wave“, a technical conference and exhibition for Marine Professionals. The conference will take place June 12 and 13, 2014 at the Delta Victoria Ocean Pointe Resort and Spa. The two-day event will feature guest speakers, relevant technical presentations,...

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March 31, 2014

“Big Iron” gets a fishbowl

BCIT North Van campus, home to the Cadet programs I got an email from Russel Oye recently, letting me know of a great development for the west coast engineering types. Most of you you may know Russel as the long time Shop Instructor at BCIT’s North Shore Marine Campus, where all recent Marine Engineering cadets have passed through. Russel is...

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March 28, 2014

CIMarE’s 2014 Medal of Excellence

The Canadian Institute of Marine Engineering’s Medal of Excellence Award is the hallmark of achievement in the Canadian marine engineering profession. It recognizes an individual’s contribution to marine engineering in this country, whether through innovation, service or leadership. The inaugural presentation last year to Bud Streeter was one of the high points of Mari-Tech 2013 in Halifax. Interviewed afterwards, Mr....

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March 26, 2014

What’s keeping you?

What a hectic few weeks. Got home to BC, from a blizzardy Newfoundland, looks like that it still pretty blizzardy over there. Needless to say I more than happy having to decide whether I should mow my lawn today, or tomorrow. Been busy with quite a few projects; taxes, failed computers / Windows 8, construction project, so on and so...

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March 14, 2014

Looking to dodge Cdn taxes? look to DFO for advice

What’s good for the goose… In response to my recent blog post on a decision, denying a Canada Coasting Act waiver by the Canada Transportation Agency (CTA) – which is very unusual – Halifax Shipping News tweeted about another story, where the Canadian federal government seems to be stabbing the Canadian marine industry in the back. In his blog post,...

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