The entire yachting community is welcome to join us on the first Wednesday in October as we rejoin the team at Kemplon Marine Engineering Services for our monthly networking event. This is the fourth time Kemplon is sponsoring our October event, always a fun time with barbecue, music and great networking. 

Stop by between 6-8 p.m. at 3200 S. Andrews Ave., suite 103, and catch up with some of your yachting friends as we all get into boat-show mode. In the meantime, learn a little more about Kemplon with this question-and-answer feature with Jeff Kemp, former yacht chief engineer, and Colette O’Hanlon, former yacht stew, the owners of Kemplon Marine.

Q. So remind us again about Kemplon Marine Engineering.
We’re a refit and repair company. We provide services to yachts: mechanical, hydraulics, heavy rigging, AWS/ASME certified welding, fabrication, machining, plumbing and pipefitting.

Q. It's a tough time to maintain business now. How have you fared over the past year?
To be honest, 2009 was really tough, especially for a newer business. We started our company in 2005. This year has been better and I believe in the long run the last couple of years will end up teaching us some valuable lessons at Kemplon. During this time everyone on our team has worked even harder than before. We decided that rather than...