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EDITOR’S NOTE ur annual Workboat Annual edition is typically our largest and, I think, our most excit- ing edition of the year. That’s because the word ‘workboat’ alone evokes so many dif- ferent ideas of what it is that this type of vessel entails. I could argue that since all but a

O handful of the nation’s 40,000 commercial merchant hulls are considered brown water vessels that every one of those increasingly sophisticated platforms qualify as a workboat. Collectively, this workboat