fr a n k ly s pea ki ng
A Band of
BROTHERS { Boatbuilding Brotherhood runs deep in the Denison family
In the fall of 1973 when this picture was taken, I was attending Broward Community College after dropping out of Rollins College two years earlier. I was 20 years old and along with attending BCC, had started a photography business specializing in, you guessed it—yacht photography. My brother Kit, (father of Bob Denison), was 10 years older and had just come down from New York City with his wife Ann and their three-yearold son, Christopher to work at Broward Marine. They were temporarily housed in our family home inside the boatyard property at the NW corner of
20 /
the yard on New River. I think I was living either in a mobile home park that a captain friend owned or at another friend’s house at this particular time frame. Peering through this piece of scrap metal (pictured right) at this point of our lives we were two brothers who clearly were at other ends of the success spectrum. Kit grew up, as I did, literally, inside the Broward Marine facility on SW 20th Street—now officially Denison Way. My other older brother, Skip, grew up there as well. While all of us are currently involved in the boat business, back then,
