Dockmasters

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March 8, 2010

Politics aren't Clyde Rawls' cup of tea. Customer service is his passion and the area he hopes to employ his skills in the near future.

Rawls, who in the spring of 2008 was appointed general manager of Camper & Nicholsons' Port Louis in Grenada, left his position at the end of the year.

“I enjoyed working in Grenada; Port Louis is a wonderful project,” Rawls said. “But I was uncomfortable being on the nightly news and in the hot spot on behalf of a foreign company.”

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February 8, 2010

Gerry Navas is the dockmaster at Yacht Club Palmas del Mar Marina on the eastern side of Puerto Rico about 40 minutes from San Juan.

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January 11, 2010

Sander Vellinga can’t get far from the water. The dockmaster of Renaissance Marina in Aruba lives on the island, which is 20 miles long and five miles wide.

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October 26, 2009

Marina manager Brad St. Coeur’s job is a puzzle. Each day he and dockmaster Mike Voelker draw little yachts on the marina map at Sunrise Harbor Marina in Ft. Lauderdale. “The only way to do this is to hand-write it,” St. Coeur said. About 2,500 linear feet of dockage is divided among four docks at this Westrec marina on the Intracoastal Waterway a few miles north of Port Everglades. The docks range from 100-420 feet and with dockage on both sides, the configurations seem limitless.

September 30, 2009

Because David Rogers likes to go fast in a good, strong breeze, he took a sailing course in college. And because it was where the classes were held, he hung out at Charleston City Marina. So when it became time for a summer job, he simply asked the people he knew, and he was hired. Now he’s harbormaster of the marina in charge of 40 acres of water, 425 slips and the 1,530-foot MegaDock fueling station.