Q1/2026 is under way now. My RBI work is continuing as well as support for mooring analyses, structural modifications and repairs. 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.

The latest queries have been for stability questions for barges and small boats. I’m also engaged in designing a repair for a corrugated bulkhead failure, it’s not the first one of those that I’ve looked at. Does seem to be a bit of an intractable issue.

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.