CC Marine is joining Maritime Marine Supply in a merger that will bring together two longstanding Canadian marine suppliers while preserving the CC Marine name and existing operations. The company will move forward as CC Marine, a Division of Maritime Marine Supply, combining businesses whose roots date to 1932 and 1948 respectively. Together, they represent more than 170 years in the Canadian marine industry. Ron Savidant, president of Maritime Marine Supply, said the deal grew out of a...

All photos contributed When Captain Daniel Moreland first found the vessel that would become Picton Castle in a Norwegian shipyard in 1991, she hardly looked destined to become one of the world's most respected sail-training ships. Operating then as the freighter Dolmar, the riveted-steel vessel had already lived several lives: built in England in 1928 as a steam trawler, serving as a Royal Navy minesweeper during the Second World War, and later working the North Sea and Baltic trades. She...

Eamonn Doorly doesn't like to talk about himself. Luckily, his work speaks for itself. Born into a family of academics and writers in Lake Huron, Doorly knew early he didn't have quite the same mind as those around him. While most of his family was happy with their nose in a book, "I was always out in the fields building something," he says. In school he struggled to understand concepts on paper, but he loved working with his hands and he loved being on the water. "Right from the beginning, I...