About Maurice Marine

I spent the first twenty years of my career a long way from boats — in the part of the electrical industry where getting it wrong doesn't mean a blown fuse, it means a substation going dark. As an engineer, and later a program and product leader at companies in electrical protection and grid automation, I specified protection systems, ran risk assessments (FMEA) across design and process, and managed compliance retrofits on switchgear built to standards that don't forgive shortcuts — the same discipline AS/NZS 3004 asks of a boat's electrical system, just at a different scale.

That background is what marine electrical documentation was missing, in my view — not more hands with a multimeter, but the habit that's standard practice in grid and industrial electrical work: calculate a system before building it, document it once it's built, and check it against a standard afterwards, rather than relying on memory and judgement.

I became an ABYC Certified Marine Electrician in 2025 and set up Maurice Marine to bring that engineering discipline to boat owners and marine trades around Melbourne and coastal Victoria — drafting, labelling, standards review and upgrade planning, done the way any other piece of safety-critical equipment already gets documented.