Cathodic protection and coating are bought from different suppliers, designed by different engineers and inspected by different people. The failure that follows belongs to nobody, which is precisely why it keeps happening. By MarineCraft Journal · 14 October 2026 · 9 mins read 2systems designed as one, or neither works as intended … Read more
A protective coating on a structure is inspected. A lining inside a tank is tested, electrically, across every square metre of its surface. That difference decides how the work is scoped, who is in the vessel, and what happens when the result comes back positive. By MarineCraft Journal · 13 October 2026 … Read more
A worker who leaves mid-project takes the mobilisation cost with them, along with the induction, the site familiarity and the permit competency. The amenity that would have kept them is almost always cheaper than the replacement, and it is almost never what gets cut first. By MarineCraft Journal · 12 October 2026 · … Read more
Contractors prepare for an accommodation inspection by cleaning. Inspectors arrive with a tape measure and a headcount, because the requirements are dimensional and they scale with how many people are actually living there. By MarineCraft Journal · 9 October 2026 · 9 mins read 3.6 m²minimum bedroom floor area per employee, non-dormitory 3 … Read more
Film thickness is the one coating parameter everybody measures and almost nobody agrees on. The argument always arrives after the scaffolding is down and the money is spent, and it is nearly always about criteria that were never written into the specification. By MarineCraft Journal · 8 October 2026 · 9 mins … Read more
A facility gets one coating specification because that is easier to buy and easier to apply. The structure then fails wherever the exposure was worst, on a schedule nobody planned for, and the specification is blamed for a decision made at procurement. By MarineCraft Journal · 7 October 2026 · 9 mins … Read more
