Maritime

 Love for yachting.

Smal onboard workshop for fine mechanic, TIG-welding and electronic trouble shooting.

The love for yachting started as a kid sailing around with my dad along the English south coast and the French coast.

Working in the yachting industry started for me to take shape working ad Nautor's Swan and the Ferretti group in the middle class up to 30m. In the meantime I was also working in the process industry where I learned the skills for;

- Low voltage

- High voltage    

- Hydraulics     

- Pneumatic     

- Enginetechnology  

- J1939 

- Instrumentation  

- CAN bus

- Profibus

- PLC 

- Automation

- NMEA0183/2000

When working for a steering gear company Van der Velden got familiar with the ins and outs of yachts up to 145m.

The added skills;

- Passarella/ gangway

- Side boarding ladders 

- Cranes

- Thrusters

- Rudder systems  

- Rudder Vanes and Rams

Working for Kwant controles in handles and control systems my knowledge grown in line of electronics and automation in 


-CPP 

-FPP 

-Azipot

-Trusters

-Jet

Sailing around for the lastyear, worked close with Victron to build a 24KVA 380v 3phase system as a virtualgenerator for a sailing yacht to be able to go sailing without noise. Together with an automatic start for a 25KVA  Northern Light the system can work without loss of power.

Also Mastervolt is no trouble after the build in of a completed system with the last technology and integraded Wisper power generator.


I am what people call an allrounder and my knowledge is an average of 80% of all things mentioned above. I dare to say that I am better than most but not better than the best.

To the job, not by car but tender, together with the Admiral