The end of the year approaches and it has been a pretty good year so far. Wind Assisted Ship Propulsion and in particular Norsepower Rotor Sails are making headlines with a first installation announced on a VLGC, Oceanus Aurora. We have seen Chinook Oldendorff on her first voyage into Vancouver in September 2024, first arrival for Norsepower Rotor Sails in Vancouver. See some of my photos here. I support Norsepower on their Western Canada and USA projects.

My conversion project in China, is making good progress, interesting technical challenges are keeping it interesting.

I’ll be continuing with UBC teaching in a more limited way in 2025 as there are commitments in the UK and South America to deal with.