Latitude 38 November 1981

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Boatbuilders live in a world of their own. Their “office is usually a large, high ceiling

ing a thousand pieces of wood, fiberglass, paper, resin, stainless steel, space age foams

Engineers, homebuilders, captains of mdustry, sailors, and kids who grew up with a

warehouse filled with fiberglass dust, wood chips and the din of whirring, whizzing,

and fibers, and putting them together to form a floating, sailing, safe vessel

knack for putting things together with their

banging machinery. Their job consists of tak-

Boatbuilders come from all walks of life:

hands. They bring with them their own particular slant on life and business. They are


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