Under apron pleat on the X-Kilt

[Steve Ashton]

Because Father Bill is pulling your chain. In a former life I was a Naval Architect/Marine Engineer. I worked in the boating industry, owned my own yacht company, and have designed and built many boats from fiberglass and rotomolded sea Kayaks, to trailerable lapstrake wooden rowing and sail boats, up to 63 ft. world class, single handed sailing cruisers.

I used to live on a 42' Rhodes Bounty II and single handed from Florida to Hawaii and back including 3 days in a hurricane off the coast of Honduras.