In 2000, Jim participated in the St. Roch II Voyage of Rediscovery, an epic recreation of the Northwest Passage voyages of St. Roch, Canada's famous Arctic exploration vessel and centerpiece of the Vancouver Maritime Museum, where Jim has served as executive director since 1991. Not content with raising funds and profile for the voyage, Jim had to go along - adding a search for the wrecks of explorer Sir John Franklin's lost ships from his 1845-1848 expedition, a sonar mapping of the wreck of Maud, and a field reconnaissance of the passage. Here he is, in an Royal Canadian Mounted Police marine detachment uniform, after a landing off the shores of King William Island in search of an elusive wreck said to lie just off its shores and visible only from the air. While the trip was amazing and Jim enjoyed his time with RCMP on the voyage, alas, no trace of Franklin's ships were found on the voyage.