CEO Chat (continued)


I issued a hard hitting IIMS press release to the yachting and boating press worldwide a couple of weeks ago on the subject of the worth and value of a marine surveyor and shared the details online too. The result has been a surge of online debate, much of it thought provoking and the offer by several editors of well-known publications to publish the article. You can find a link to the article elsewhere in this bulletin.


The first IIMS training event of the year, held just a few days ago, attracted an audience of nearly 50 real-time and online delegates from the UK and much further afield. Dr Mike Lewus, Technical Advisor, British Stainless Steel Association joined forces with IIMS and delivered a one day seminar entitled ‘Marine Corrosion and its Prevention in Small Vessels’, well received by all who attended.


Preparation is now well advanced with the next tranche of training events too in the coming weeks. I recommend Karen Brain’s online seminar on 6 February entitled ‘Mediation and the marine surveyor’ which proved popular last year. A completely redrafted and right up to date report writing online seminar is scheduled for 26 February. Ideal as a refresher, or for those with limited surveying experience, it seems the world of report writing is evolving. And finally, Kim Skov-Nielsen is running a one day course entitled ‘How to conduct a complete mast and rigging survey’ in Southampton on 26 March. Full details on these three events can be found in this news bulletin and also on the IIMS web site.


Survey well! Terry Reynolds Obituary


A tribute to marine surveyor and IIMS member, Terry Reynolds, who passed away in late 2017 written by his friend of many years, Peter Dawson.


When approached to pen this tribute to Terry Reynolds, my first thoughts were: How do I fit a large life into a short article? How do I follow in words, the footsteps of a larger than life character in the marine industry?


I knew Terry first as his lawyer and then as his friend. He was one of the first and most loyal supporters of my then fledgling maritime law practice and we voyaged together through litigation that would have destroyed a lesser man.


At the age of 15 Terry’s parents shifted to Whangarei and Terry started his life-long love affair with the sea. Knowing his son, his father wisely told him not to train on the deck side but to become an engineer. He served his apprenticeship at Whangarei Glass as a fitter/turner. His then boss, Owen Davies, who called him “Terence” when he blew it or played some prank on one of his fellow workmates, was to eventually become his father- in-law when he married Jean in 1984.


Terry started his sea-going career with a Swedish merchant shipping company as an oiler, and eventually, through hard work and perseverance with his exams, became one of the youngest chief engineers in the foreign-going merchant marine at the age of 32. Study for Terry was never easy, and it was only in the past two years that he was finally assessed and declared to be, what he termed ‘special’, with a spelling/reading age of nine, as a result of dyslexia.


Mike Schwarz Chief Executive Officer


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