Professional BoatBuilder - February-March 2018

30 PROFESSIONAL BOATBUILDER

BUILDER PROFILE: Bertram

equipment. Brent Brown, the “great

laminator” whose gel time tests I

observed, has 37 years of experience.

Lazzara’s impact on this part of

Florida, on boatbuilding in general,

goes beyond the physical plant and

expandable/retractable mold Dick cre-

ated now sits in a  eld down the road

a piece.  e 5-axis router the brothers

bought sat idle for the intervening

years until Blackwell and his crew got

it up and running again, along with

the 3-axis Homag CNC cutter.  e

buildings remain as they were, though

Truslow said a lot of cleanup was

required before work could begin

inside.  ey repainted nearly every-

thing and rebuilt the cranes and

o ces. “Dick did a lot of good things,”

Truslow said, well aware of what he

inherited. “It was a beautiful straight-

line-production building.”

Gavio Group bought the building

in August 2016 from an investor

who’d purchased it from the bank;

and hull No. 1 of the 35 was out the

door by end of the year.  e 800'

(244m) of waterfront and the Travel-

i s remain, key to Bertram’s burgeon-

ing service business.

A 5-axis router, employed by Lazzara Marine, was refurbished to tool small parts.

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BUILD A

BETTER,

STRONGER

BOAT

Patriot

TM

Multi-Color

Gel Coat System

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