Project: Client Profiles for Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-op
When the Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-op launched a new blog to promote their shipbuilding and repair services, I was asked to profile three clients from their 2010 work season.
With my maritime background, I am perfectly comfortable conducting interviews at a boatyard. However, this assignment marked the first time I met with an interviewee underneath a blocked-up boat. We crouched low, side by side on the boatyard gravel, me with my notebook and Dr. Geerlofs with his brush as he touched up the epoxy sealer on the hull seams!
Although he’s officially retired, Dr. Peter Geerlofs takes his “summer job” very seriously. The 62-year-old physician arrives at the Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-op early each morning, eager to put in some hard physical labor on a comely 44’ steel Diesel Duck troller called SEADUCKTRESS.
“I’m at the yard by 9:30 a.m. and I’m here four to five hours every single day,” Geerlofs says proudly. “And I often leave after they do.”
He’s not getting paid; in fact, he’s paying the shipwrights who usually get home for dinner before he does. Read more.
Read the three client profiles:
Peter Geerlofs, M/V SEADUCKTRESS
Project Manager: Chris Brignoli
Gary Nielsen & F/V VICTORY
Kevin Campion & Deep Green Wilderness, S/V ORION
Project Manager: Chris Chase
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