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Installing a new Westerbeke engine in a Catalina 38 at Royal Vancouver Yacht Club, Vancouver

Licences & Certificates

·         Certificate: 10,000 hour apprenticeship – motor vehicle mechanic (Kovac/Gyro Motors, Toronto)

·         License: Automotive Service Technician, British Columbia (Interprovincial red seal) [valid in all provinces & territories]

·         License: Truck & Coach Technician, Ontario [valid in all provinces & territories]

·         License: Marine Engine Technician, Ontario [valid in all provinces & territories]

·         License: Class 1 driver’s license (motorcycle & tractor-trailer truck with air brake endorsement), British Columbia

·         License: Marine Pleasurecraft Operator, Canada [valid in all provinces & territories]

·         License: Restricted VHF/HF Maritime Radio Operator, Canada [valid in all provinces & territories]

·         License: Restricted VHF/HF Land Radio Operator, Canada [valid in all provinces & territories]

·         License: Amateur UHF/VHF/HF (including CW – morse code) Radio Operator, Canada [valid in all provinces & territories]

Experience

·         snowmobile mechanic (Avenue Road Marine - Toronto)

·         marine engine mechanic (Pier 100 Marina - Bracebridge)

·         snowmobile mechanic (Tornado Marine - Edmonton)

·         motor vehicle mechanic (Kovac/Gyro Motors - Toronto)

·         marine engine mechanic (Tower Marine - Dorset, Ontario)

·         motorcycle mechanic/rider (Hess Racing – Toronto, sponsors: Kovac/Gyro Motors & Quimby Hess)

·         motor vehicle mechanic (Adria Import Automotive - Vancouver)

·         motor vehicle mechanic (Import Automotive - Vancouver)

·         heavy equipment mechanic (Green Valley Engineering - Peace River, Alberta)

·         motor vehicle mechanic (Guthrie Chrysler/Dodge - Peace River, Alberta)

·         heavy equipment mechanic (Transport Canada - Inuvik, Northwest Territories)

·         motorcycle mechanic/rider (Kingmik Husqvarna – Inuvik, Northwest Territories)

·         marine engine mechanic (Atomic Four Engine Service - Delta, British Columbia, 1990 – 2006)

·         marine engine mechanic (Eastern Marine Systems - Toronto, 2007 – 2009)

·         marine engine mechanic (Nanaimo Yacht Services – Nanaimo, British Columbia, 2009 - )

Trade-related Writing
(recent articles)

·         DIY (Do It Yourself) Boater, 2004 & 2005

·         Good Old Boat, 2009

Sponsorship/Donations/Support

·         Capilano College, North Vancouver, BC – IDEA Program

Business Mentors & Leaders
(people who believed in us and gave us good business council)

·         Ben Manke, Huntsville, ON

·         Ken Hone, Minden, ON

·         Alex Gervais, Dorset, ON

·         Marilyn Joiner, Toronto

·         Joe Kovac, Toronto

·         Paul Kovac, Toronto

·         Dave Hayward, Smithers, BC

·         Joe Kmet, Toronto

·         Quimby Hess, Toronto

·         Pete Wiebe, Grimshaw, AB

·         Henry Plaizier, Peace River, AB

·         Barney McNeil, Hay River, NT (RIP)

·         Dave Rayko, Cochrane, AB

·         Reid Masson, Hawkesbury, ON

·         Ben Rathbone, Kamloops, BC

·         Ian Bailey, Vancouver

·         Chuck Wigg, Vancouver

·         Henry McWilliams, Vancouver

·         Jim Cooke, Vancouver

·         Rick Rispin, Nanaimo, BC

·         Alex Whitfield, Delta, BC

·         Bruce Evans, West Vancouver, BC

·         Penny Chester, Toronto

Company Photographs

uncrating a new Universal diesel, Ladner, BC, spring 2006

Rebuilt Vetus diesel being installed in 32’ sailboat in North Vancouver, spring 2006

First startup of a reconditioned 60 hp Graymarine 4

working on 2 big turbocharged Yanmar diesels, Eastern Marine, Toronto - 2007

selling Universal and Westerbeke marine engines for Marine Parts Supply Canada at the Vancouver Boat Show – 2005

selling Volvo Penta marine engines for Eastern Marine at the Toronto Boat Show – 2009

installing a rebuilt Mercruiser V8 at Eastern Marine – 2008

The Right Way: reconditioned propeller shaft stuffing box and flange on rebuilt Vetus diesel
(note “T” clamps & stainless steel lockwire on set screws)

 Company Training Philosophy

“...The presence of the apprentices was an act of charity on the part of Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni, who was concerned that there should be enough properly trained mechanics in Botswana to replace his generation when it eventually retired. 'Africa will get nowhere until we have mechanics,' he once remarked to Mma Ramotswe. 'Mechanics are the first stone in the building. Then there are other people on top. Doctors. Nurses. Teachers. But the whole thing is built on mechanics. That is why it is important to teach young people to be mechanics.' “
Morality for Beautiful Girls, by Alexander McCall Smith, 2001, Time Warner Books UK

“... While Japanese workers built the oil-tight [Honda] CB750 [motorcycle], British workers [at Triumph Motorcycles] went on strike. Or casually dropped the random handful of screws into the crankcase, just to teach Capitalism a lesson. How a successful company [Triumph Motorcycles] could have made so many bone-headed decisions and fatal errors in such a short period of time is hard to comprehend, though I suspect a sociologist might attribute it at least partly to the Swinging London Syndrome. The late Sixties and early Seventies were a time when everyone wanted to be a Beatle and smoke dope in Chelsea, but no-one wanted to study metallurgy or drill-bit technology. Specificity and real knowledge were out of fashion. Bell bottoms got caught in the drive chain of quality.”
Leanings – Triumph Motorcycles in America, by Peter Egan, 1995, Cycle World

partsperson Emily Hess – summer 2005

Spring 2006: trainee mechanic Andrew Atoui (1986 – 2009: Andrew was killed in a terrible car crash in Feb. 2009 while travelling in Australia)

partsperson Alice Hess - summer 2004

our driver Graham Hess with his Ford Mustang 5.0 litre V8 built by Robert Hess – 2005
(sponsor Atomic Four Engine Service Ltd.)

Robert & Graham putting the engine in the Mustang

final adjustments to the car before it leaves for the dragstrip at Mission, BC

our rider Mike Sherens on his Kawasaki 125 MX with his dad Rick before a race, Canadian Motorcycle Association Motocross MX track at Agassiz BC – 2004
(sponsor Atomic Four Engine Service Ltd.)

our rider Gerald Wiens (1960 – 1991: Gerald was killed in an accident in Whitehhorse, Yukon in Oct. 1991) & sponsor/mechanic Robert Hess with the Kingmik Motorcycles Husqvarna 500 4-stroke ice racer (studded tires)
(winner of the Arctic Circle Riders Motorcycle Club Muskrat Jamboree / Northwest Territories Championship ice race on the Mackenzie River at Inuvik, NT – 1985)

Motorcycle Sport

Road Racing
Ducati Diana 250 Mach 3, Harewood Acres, Ontario – 1969
(sponsor Quimby Hess)

Road Racing
Yamaha TZ250 (water-cooled), Mosport, Ontario - 1976
(sponsors Quimby Hess and Joe Kovac)

[photograph coming soon]

Dirt Track Racing
Bultaco 360 Astro, Port McNeil, BC – 1977
(sponsor Hess Racing)

[photograph coming soon]

Ice Racing
Husqvarna 360 WR, Inuvik, NT – 1982
(sponsor Hess Racing)

[photograph coming soon]

Cross Country Racing
Husqvarna 250 MX, Kamloops, BC – 1987
(sponsor Kingmik Motorcycles)

[photograph coming soon]

Ice Racing
Honda 250 MX, Kamloops, BC – 1988
(sponsor Hess Racing)

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