Q4/2026 is under way now, the year is flying past. For regular followers our SNAME paper wasn’t accepted! Apparently we misunderstood an instruction as just being a comment. Oh well; it’s written now so we’ll find another venue.

British Columbia is making major infrastructure investments and I’m very happy to be part of a couple of teams working towards success in this areas. I’m learning a lot about cross overs between Naval Architecture and Civil Engineering.

Ship inspections continue as well as other work looking at tug operations. Hopefully both of these tasks will result in significant safety and efficiency improvements for the Owners.

Wind Assisted Ship Propulsion and in particular Norsepower Rotor Sails are making headlines and Chinook Oldendorff, a rotor sail fitted bulk carrier, is now a regular visitor to Vancouver. Any questions about Rotor Sails in Western Canada or the USA please contact me.

Iain Braidwood Consulting respectfully acknowledges that it lives, works and plays on the unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ / sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations as well as other ancestral territories.