Q3/2026 is under way now, the year is flying past. My RBI work is continuing as well as support for mooring analyses and stability. I’m also helping to write a couple of documents, one for a SNAME panel and the other for SNAME’s annual; conference, this year in Houston.

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.

Other work is addressing dry dock safety, structural inspections and conversions for FPSO work.

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.