Qualifications

I am retired from a 35-year career as an Air Traffic Controller, Air Traffic Control Trainer and Training Manager. I have worked both in Canada for Transport Canada and Nav Canada as well as for the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as a training specialist in Saudi Arabia. Now that I am retired I am following my real passion which is boating.

I have been sailing since I was 5 and owned my first boat at 12. In my teens I worked as a sailing instructor, managed a small boat club and maintained a fleet of dinghies and two mahogany committee boats.

I have chartered boats in Lake Ontario, Lake Champlain, the Maine Coast as well as the Bay of Fundy.

I have owned several boats ranging in size from 22 feet to 39 feet. My wife and I sailed our Camper Nicholson Ketch to Southern Florida and back. My last boat was a Niagara 35 which we sailed in eastern Lake Ontario for 5 years.

I am a graduate of Chapman's School of Seamanship Courses, "Yacht and Small Craft Surveying" and "Conducting and Reporting the Marine Damage Survey."

I am a retired SAMS Accredited Marine Surveyor (AMS). I was an active member of SAMS since graduation from Chapman's until the end of 2024.

I am a member of the American Boat and Yacht Council (ABYC).