M How did you go from a career in banking right into building boats?
I always knew this was what I wanted to do, but I also knew growing up around boatbuilding, that it wasn’t very well organized. Some of these boats were being built in a pole barn behind a guy’s house. It would be unrecognizable to people today who are used to going to our yards and seeing these welloiled operations that we have. I wanted to learn how to run a business, I wanted to learn the ins and outs of finance, and I didn’t want to come into a situation where I