Welcome to the British Columbia Branch of The Nautical Institute
The Nautical Institute is a professional body of highly qualified mariners, whose membership is drawn from commercial, naval, government shipping and other nautical activities. Its headquarters are in London with Branches on all continents. It is devoted to promoting high standards of nautical competence and knowledge.
The British Columbia Branch has membership of approximately 200 professional mariners based in Western Canada and in the USA. Seminars and meetings are held in Vancouver and Victoria, B.C. Any Nautical Institute Members visiting B.C. or the USA, Pacific Northwest is encouraged to contact the branch secretary.
All Branch Members are reminded that attendance at Monthly Directors Meetings is welcome. The meetings are normally conducted in the Conference Room onboard the MV "Spirit of Vancouver Island" during the 17:00 to 18:35 Tswassen to Swartz bay Sailing on the second Tuesday of every month. Please contact any Branch Director for details.
Ice Book Warmly Received
Polar Ship Operations, by our very own Duke Snider, is now available from The Nautical Institute price: £30; ISBN: 978 1 906915 18 6 www.nautinst.org/pubs
Click here for further details about this new publication.Nautical Profession Education Society of Canada
Branch members please remember that the NPESC are soliciting your tax deductible donations to increase the funds on deposit with the foundations.
Click here for further details about where to send your mail in donations.
To make things easier you may also make your donation by credit card or PayPal by clicking here and completing the on-line donation form.
New Slate of Branch Directors
At our AGM on Saturday April 14th 2012 our new slate of directors was duly elected. Click here to see the new list of branch directors
Spring Seminar 2013?
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Technical Meetings
At the March 13th Directors Meeting it was decided to encourage participation from members in "Technical Meetings". These meetings would be scheduled at the same time as our regulalr monthly meetings and would take place following a brief "business meeting" to deal with the affairs of the branch. Mr. Dinesh Kewalramani (MNI) was kindly "volunteered" by our Chairman to give us a presentation on "Ship Repair" at our September meeting. More details on this will be available closer to the date. We should like to encourage other members to step forward and share some of their experiences with us at one of these meetings. If you have any ideas for a topic please Click here to join in with the discussion.