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GREAT LAKES BUSINESS “We took AWO and the RCP very seriously. Our Vice President of Operations was on the AWO Board for several years. We were proud of it – we promoted it. At the time of our last 3-year audit, we hired our auditor and he became our Director of

Operations and Compliance, a new role within our organization. Shortly af er that, we hired a maritime college graduate and he became our Quality Auditor.” men Class,’ will all be sisters to the tug Cleveland, built folio of proven off-the-shelf models to sell to customers.” last year. “We actually laid 10 of those keels. So, after we Starck – like the U.S. Coast Guard and many others – is get through these next four, we’ll take a step back and reas- sold on the Damen concept. “Most of those tugs have been sess and decide if we want to continue on. But those other built multiple times. The tug, Cleveland – the 1907 ICE keels, we expect to use those, and if not for ourselves; we’ll that we’re building – that was their most-popular design. I try to sell those to others,” says Starck. went over there and rode the boat in the Port of Amsterdam,

The idea, continues Starck, is to get the line started in and I just thought it was just a perfect modern-day version series-build fashion, and maybe even having a couple of of our old traditional style G-tug. It made sense to me that stock hulls available for quick turnaround to prospective this is a proven boat with every