I decided to make another point.

A young man on the lake had just graduated from boatbuilding school in Maine. Together we worked out a design and made a deal - I would buy the tools and provide the space if he'd build the boat. An old wood-shed was enlarged, a concrete floor poured and work began on the first "Carter."

The prototype (just how it had become a prototype, I'm not sure, but that's the way my life works) was finished in the winter and we had to trail it all the way down to Delaware to find ice-free water to test it.

A tribute to Spencer Jenkins' plans, it floated on the water-line and performed as expected. By the next summer, I had five teams of three men each at individual stations on a production line. (We had to expand the wood-shed another 4000 square feet.)