Cardinal Sin

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    Loyalty

    2023-06-26T14:28:00Z

    Once upon a time, trust and loyalty were a by word in an industry lead by passion and desire to succeed.

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    Summer is coming

    2023-05-30T14:28:00Z

    It’s been a long drawn out spring, but summer must be around the corner as I have already heard the two phases (while working on a boat in a marina) that bring my blood to the boil quicker than a Turkish steam room.

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    Marine union is the eutopia

    2023-05-03T13:55:00Z

    Here’s a thing. Have you noticed how it’s now incredibly fashionable to join a union, more so than any time since the 1970’s it seems.

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    Is the leisure marine sector a fan zone?

    2023-03-29T13:33:00Z

    I wonder if there is any other dynamic quite like the leisure marine sector when it comes to relying on goodwill from companies to operate.

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    Engagement - or lack of

    2023-02-28T17:25:00Z

    In my many years in this amazing marine industry, one thing always pops up as an issue time after time

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    Disappointed in you

    2023-01-31T16:16:00Z

    Well having spent a few days recovering from nine days at boot Dusseldorf, I have become quite reflective.

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    There are opportunities

    2023-01-06T14:49:00Z

    Welcome to 2023 and all the opportunities that it will bring.

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    A time of hope?

    2022-12-06T10:58:00Z

    Cardinal Sin reflects on the joys of this Winterville time of year

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    Psychology

    2017-10-13T16:26:00Z

    I’m really not getting the mind set of so many exhibitors on the UK show circuit.

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    Networking

    2017-06-26T16:13:00Z

    Networking events remain a mystery to me in our wonderful marine world. We are on the main, an industry of links and networks, where you don’t need five links to be connected to any one; its more like two or even one. We are a small industry doing great things ...

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    Anniversary time

    2017-05-31T13:28:00Z

    I can’t believe we have got here, but this column marks the 50th Cardinal Sin ramblings. Oh how time flies when you’re having fun/getting old.

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    Survey time?

    2017-05-07T20:37:00Z

    So while your busy going about your day-to-day business, rapidly adjusting to the changing world and changing opportunity bubble, I ask when was the last time someone asked you how you are?

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    Sum of many parts

    2017-03-29T16:15:00Z

    It’s a constant amazement to me that we make world class marine based products, while at the same time happily sit in splendid isolation.

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    Back to the future

    2017-02-23T13:40:00Z

    I sat at a dinner not so long back and looking around noticed that for once there were more people I did not know than I knew.

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    Titles

    2017-01-03T16:45:00Z

    It seems the title a job gives has come to define all in our world. Back in the day I am sure we were just happy to have a job doing what we loved, with boat ‘things’.

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    Disconnection

    2016-12-19T08:30:00Z

    Disconnection, it occurs when you stop getting involved. This is dangerous and we have to be careful this does not start to proliferate in our marine world.

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    Lack of buy in

    2016-11-18T12:17:00Z

    I am concerned, really concerned not about Brexit or all of the other political mish mash, ultimately that will all be sorted out by those money men really in charge. No I am concerned by the total lack of buy in to environmental issues surrounding the leisure marine sector, ...

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    Product and innovation

    2016-10-25T12:33:00Z

    Why do we find that our industry, which is so dependent on new product and innovation seems to suffer such a lack of real funding for the life blood of our business?

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    Older age

    2016-10-10T13:39:00Z

    It is becoming more and more obvious to me that the average age of my boating buddies is ever increasing, with little sign of the youth following on currently.

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    Girls on top?

    2016-08-18T12:16:00Z

    So we are now truly in the age of the woman, from America from Europe and in to the more or less United Kingdom, its fairly much or about to be, women in charge.