Here we are in Q2 2024 and Wind Assisted Ship Propulsion and in particular Norsepower Rotor Sails are making headlines. More and more interest, not just from Owners but Charterers too now. For those readers in and around Vancouver we should be seeing a Rotor Sail equipped Oldendorff bulk carrier (Dietrich Oldendorff) in Vancouver in Q3 2024. Also we have just seen the announcement of six rotor sails per ship in a three ship fleet, shipping Airbus components across the Atlantic. That’s a real meeting of technologies.

If you are in Western Canada or the USA and have questions about Rotor Sails I can help you out.

I have just returned from China where I spent a couple of weeks working on an FLNG conversion project.

LCO2 projects are still on the go and recent interest has been around the west coast of Canada for some very technically challenging projects. Northern Lights is trend setting, four ships out of Dalian now all Rotor Sail equipped and the first LCO2 ships are being built in Korea.

The academic year at UBC is coming to an end for me, just the exams to do now. If you know someone who is interested in studying Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, feel free to contact me.

Every day sees more and more requests, moorings (MEG4 compliance), UTM, ballast water, drawing approval, chemicals transport and floating storage. Where I can’t help out directly, I know people who can.