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KIT DENISON {
Celebrating 80 Years and 100+ Yachts
Kit Denison grew up around boats in Saugatuck, Michigan and Fort Lauderdale, Florida. From the very start, he was fascinated by the boating industry and apprenticed in many boatbuilding trades, including: lofting, laminating, planking, welding, design, mechanical, and electrical. You name it, he did it. However, after graduating from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania in 1965, he started his career in—radio! He spent five years at ABC Radio, first as Research Director and then as National Sales Director, in New York.
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But his true passion always beckoned him back to boat building. So, he left ABC Radio in 1971 for Broward Marine and built his first Broward, a wooden 46-foot sportfish, in 1972. In 1974, he was also responsible for helping Broward transition to building aluminum boats. Kit pioneered plasma-arc cutting of aluminum for yachts, and was the first to build a yacht with Kamewa water jet drives when he founded Denison Marine in 1983. He launched and delivered the largest motor yacht ever built in the in the United States in 1986 (it was 43 meters
