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RIBS & Combat Craft happy with the industry we’re in. “It is up and down, but we seem to have a reasonable amount of things in front of us that are in contract or almost in contract. its’ a pretty exciting business and it fil- ters on down to the guys working on the boats. Everybody likes what they’re doing. You wouldn’t be in this unless you liked the end product.”

HANN POWERBOATS:

THE STRATEGIC ADVANTAGE OF SPEED

Kevin J. McLaughlin, vice president of Hann

Powerboats, Inc., said the company is 10 years old and evolved from president and founder Russ Hann’s interest in building a very fast fishing boat for himself. Hann, an engineer and graduate of Carnegie Mellon University,

Hann Powerboats

Kevin

McLaughlin “There seems to be a growing interest in aluminum patrol boats. We now offer a 40-ft aluminum patrol boat that also has a 50 knot cruising speed,” he said, “with wide open throttle it will probably do 55 to 57 knots.”

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