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KEN FICKETT started his boatbuilding career as a boy working afternoons in one of the last wooden boat shops on the Miami River. Sweeping up, caring for tools and acting as a gofer, he learned boat building from one of the best. Forty years later he’s still at it! Having started his own boat building company, Mirage Manufacturing of Gainesville, Florida. He’s built some of the most competitive MORC racing sailboats, high performance airplanes, a line of fast, offshore sportfishing boats and now, a line of unique trawlers, the Great Harbour series, the GH37, GH47 and the Great Harbour N37. Ken writes about boatbuilding, technical issues and marine trends. His most recent work was published in Soundings magazine, headlined “Walk the docks with Ken Fickett, boatbuilder.” His boatbuilding philosophy was the center of an interview published in PassageMaker magazine, which you can read by clicking here.
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