MJ profile Kerrie Forster: Acta Marine

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HUMAN NATURE IS at least part of the reason workboat regulations will never be perfect, explained Kerrie Forster: "If you change the goalposts someone will make something that will only just fit - and eventually you'll have to change the rules again to deal with the new issues." Certainly, rapid change was a characteristic of the "early, crazy years" of offshore renewables: an ex-racing yachtsman, he got involved with one of the UK's first installations at Gunfleet Sands and his career took off, quite literally, with the wind, giving him an insider's view of the sector's meteoric rise. "At the beginning of the CTV boom we saw incredible numbers of vessels flood into an industry that didn't even exist beforehand," he said. It wasn't long before new vessels "started to come out at a rate of one a month".