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Insights seriously considering several small business acquisitions to takable and key milestones for the industry.

expand our offerings to the market. Several tools have allowed the operator improved ease of use. For example, the 1990s brought our ? rst line-tension

Over the course of your career, what have been some of displays, allowing operators to view actual line tension the biggest or most impactful changes to take place at from the wheelhouse.

Markey—or in the marine business in general? Many of our innovations in fact date from the 1990s,

The aforementioned change in ownership structure, just during which time we had Barry Grif? n, manufacturer’s a year ago, marks a unique event in Markey’s 116-year his- representative, working at Markey. Barry was especially tory. Speaking technically, the successful launch of Mar- keen to listen carefully to the operators, spending an as- key’s Asymmetric Render/Recover in 2004, which forever tonishing 5,342 hours aboard customer vessels. He was changed the world of winch control, was an unforgettable responsible especially for the development of our ? rst game-changer on my watch. “Render/recover” (as on a hydraulic render-recover controls, working steadily to tugboat) has since become a standard term in the English make them ergonomically sound. Decades later, today’s technical parlance. The steady improvements in electric render/recover controls for Markey’s Class III winches winching over the recent decades, including regenerative bear a remarkable likeness to the ? rst control systems functions and improvements in control, have been unmis- Barry developed.

Left to right: Scott Kreis, vice president of sales and engineering; Jeff Dempke, general manager; Robert LeCoque, technical manager; and Blaine Dempke, CEO. 14 | MN October 2023