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BOATBUILDING everything was working properly and then, he would call tial for success is greater with a modern maritime ? eet. me to pick up the vehicle. With a total reliance on digi- Talk to your builder and designer about a modern vessel tal technology, the technician failed to actually physically design that is a good ? t for your operation. Out? tting the test the mechanical problem to see if it was resolved. I was modern workboat means more than bells and whistles; it not impressed when I had to show up on two occasions means balancing a realistic CapEx budget with the realities to demonstrate that the problem still existed, despite the of an increasingly competitive, regulated and technologi- all-systems-go digital indication. The requirement for a cally advanced market.

skilled wrench-turning vessel engineer will clearly remain, and mechanical fail-safes will prove necessary even with modern equipment.

Joe Hudspeth is Vice President of Business

The technology shift is not an arguable point; we must

Development at All American Marine, embrace and keep moving in a technologically advanced di-

Inc., a manufacturer of high speed passen- rection. In this way, the U.S. Coast Guard and even NOAA ger ferries, excursion vessels, and work boats, have marked a signi? cant move by endorsing the use of in Bellingham, WA. Hudspeth has been involved with electronic charts and e-navigation instruments. Even the maritime sales, marketing and product development since

NTSB is pushing for on board networked monitoring with 2000. He currently serves as a regional co-chairman for a desire to see the implementation of voyage data recorders.

the Passenger Vessel Association and participates on several

The uniqueness of our industry and environment will committees concerned with marine industry issues. continue to present obstacles and challenges that cannot

Reach him at [email protected] be solved by technological advances alone, but the poten-

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