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to do before you get there. It’s worth

the e ort. Took us about two weeks to

do this. If you’ve built a bunch of the

same kind of boats before, you don’t

have to. But the 60 is new to us. We

won’t have to do this again.”

The House That Lazzara Built

When I drove up to the Bertram

property I immediately recognized the

Italian-styled ristorante facade attached

to one of the buildings.  is is where I’d

entered in 2003 when I came to write

up Lazzara Marine Corporation’s

(LMC) new 106 (32.3m) motoryacht

for Showboats International magazine.

As recounted in “Lazzara & Sons,” PBB

No. 169, I’d been o ered a steak lunch

but unfortunately had already stopped

at McDonald’s a few miles away.

LMC went down in the 2008 Great

Recession. Brothers Brad and Richard

(Dick) Lazzara lost the property and

everything in it.  e ingenious 64-piece

here and assemble it, complete with

engines, demisters, and Seakeeper.

 is is what it feels like. You know

what you’ve got and what you’re going

engineroom. “ is is what the 60 inte-

rior will look like,” said Blackwell.

“ is is the real boat. We cut AC ply-

wood on the CNC, and bring it out

All features of the Bertram 60 are mocked-up in plywood in a separate building to

check their ergonomics before tooling is made.

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