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Walking The Walk
Power and Motoryachts
|October 2017
SOME ENGINEERS AND DESIGNERS MAY SURPRISE YOU
In the late 1970s I moved from my home state of California to New Orleans to get my first shot at professional boat design. I was met with great skepticism by the shipyard workers at Halter Marine West End Division, as they were introduced to their new designer and all they saw was a 25-year-old, long-haired kid wearing flip-flops.
While I looked like a hippie, they viewed me as a nerdy academic, clearly out of my element in a commercial shipyard. Those old salts made my life pretty rough in the beginning and kidded me unmercifully for being a notoriously light drinker, ordering me milk whenever we went out to a bar after work.
During my first year, the yard was building a 65-foot Halter aluminum sportfish yacht and some of the interior finish work wasn’t coming out very good.
This story is from the October 2017 edition of Power and Motoryachts.
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