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Before I founded my yacht design firm, I was the design engineer at a production boatbuilder. The company produced top-shelf fiberglass yachts at a rate of 50 to 60 a year. With hundreds of people employed at the multi-acre facility, no two days were alike.

But each morning after a stop in my office, I’d begin my rounds in the tooling department, a kind

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