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Best Coast Welding 20+ years in the trade. TIG • MIG • Stick
Marine • Structural • Custom Fabrication
Boats, shipyards, aluminum, stainless & real shop talk.

By far the best quality and lowest rates in the lower mainland.

10/10/2026

Turns out it wasn’t the battery.

Cal knows that now.

10/09/2026

Boss said the pipe was empty. Cal should’ve minded his own f**king business. ⚡️

10/09/2026

Cal welded himself into the container to avoid overtime. Then something inside started knocking. 🔧

10/09/2026

Cal says he knows what he’s doing. He’s still here, so we’re taking that as a good sign. 🔥

10/08/2026

What a mess of cords and Cables. SMH.

10/03/2026

Just a normal day at work: making sparks, angering the metal gods, and pretending that burn was part of the plan. 🤘🔥

10/02/2026

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THE PRETTIEST WELD CAN STILL BE THE WORST ONE ⚡️Social media has convinced a lot of people that a perfect row of shiny d...
09/15/2026

THE PRETTIEST WELD CAN STILL BE THE WORST ONE ⚡️

Social media has convinced a lot of people that a perfect row of shiny dimes automatically means a perfect weld. It does not.

A weld can look flawless on the surface and still be hiding poor pe*******on, lack of fusion, contamination, trapped slag or cracks underneath. When that weld is holding together a bridge, a ship, a pressure vessel or a piece of heavy equipment, appearance becomes the least important part of the job.

A real welder is not being paid for the few minutes the arc is burning. They are being paid for knowing how to prepare the joint, control the heat, choose the right process and make sure that weld is still holding years after everyone has forgotten who put it there.

Pretty matters, but strength matters more. Steel does not care how many likes your weld received. When the weight hits, the vibration starts and everything is pushed to its limit, that weld either holds or it doesn’t.

Be honest, would you rather have the prettiest welder on Instagram or the experienced old bastard whose work has survived 25 years in the field?

THIS ISN’T AN OIL RIG SITTING IN THE WATER. IT’S AN OIL RIG GETTING A RIDE. ✔️The BOKA Vanguard is currently transportin...
09/15/2026

THIS ISN’T AN OIL RIG SITTING IN THE WATER. IT’S AN OIL RIG GETTING A RIDE. ✔️

The BOKA Vanguard is currently transporting the massive VALARIS 106 jackup drilling rig from Singapore to Kokas, Indonesia, where it is scheduled to begin a two year offshore drilling contract with BP worth approximately US$74 million.

The ship carrying it is an engineering monster in its own right. The BOKA Vanguard is 275 metres long, has a deck 70 metres wide and can carry more than 116,000 tonnes. It has no traditional bow, allowing enormous structures to hang over both ends of the deck.

Loading something this big is even crazier. The vessel fills its ballast tanks until the deck sinks beneath the water. The drilling rig is floated into position above it, then the water is pumped back out and the entire ship rises underneath the load. It is basically a floating dry dock that can pick up an offshore rig and carry it across the ocean.

From a welding and fabrication perspective, the scale is almost impossible to appreciate. Every deck plate, support, brace, load point and weld must work together while the entire structure is being hammered by the open sea. There is no room for “close enough” when you are carrying machinery worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Most people see one gigantic machine sitting on another. Welders see thousands of critical connections that absolutely cannot fail.

Would you trust your welds to carry this across the ocean?

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