fish factory

Mr. Donald Willis, owner of Custom Marine Fabrication, New Bern left us Feb 8th. Just found out. I've known him for 15 years. A fine gentleman, started out with only a little and left a million dollar business. Most important, he never took advantage of anyone. One of the very first T-top builders in NC. Wrote the specs for NC Wildlife boat's T-Tops.

He wasone of the few in the boat business, heck any business, one could hand cash to and expect a properly made product (without a contract). One of Donald's favorite stories...

"An individual came up to me at the Virginia Boat Show, said he had one of my T-Tops on his boat for 10 years. Last year, he bought a new boat."

"Well" Donald asked "Why didn't you come to me for a new T-Top for your new boat?"

the man answered "Hell, there wasn't nothing wrong with the top, I transferred it to the new boat"



A Sad Day.

Wet-n-Wiley

wolfpack03

Agreed. I never formally met him but I know he was a good man. He will be missed.

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Shag

Here is a link from a previous thread with some additional comments.

http://www.thehulltruth.com/forums/t...sts=11#M908422

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Shag

whoops, double post

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fish factory

Thanks for the link...didn't know about a previous thread.

SCAngler

he was a first class man.