President.

Owner & CEO of Bristol Marine.

Vice President.

General Manager of Bristol Marine Boothbay Harbor, Maine.

Treasurer

Board Member.

Managing Partner at Herreshoff Designs.

Board Member.

Alec Brainerd grew up sailing and racing wooden boats on Penobscot Bay, and after many years working in local boatyards, crewing large classic yachts around the world, and captaining local windjammers - founded Artisan Boatworks in 2002. He lives in Rockport with his wife Erin and two daughters, where they enjoy skiing at the Camden Snow Bowl during the winter months, and cruising aboard their 40′ wooden S&S yawl NORA in summer.

Alec and Erin employ 12 year-round employees at Artisan Boatworks, and care for 80 boats in 20,000 sq. ft. of purpose-built storage and workshop space. They specialize in new construction, restoration, storage, maintenance, and brokerage of wooden boats and yachts. For more information about Artisan Boatworks and their services visit www.ArtisanBoatworks.com.

Alec is a member of the Camden Yacht Club, Bucks Harbor Yacht Club, Cruising Club of America, and Yacht Brokers Association of America. Over the past fifteen years he has served on boards of the Rockland Apprenticeshop, Maine Marine Trades Association, Camden Yacht Club, Landing School Program Advisory Committee, Mystic Seaport Watercraft Committee, and New England Wooden Boat Restoration Foundation.

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As Fredk C. Bieberbach, Jr., AMS, I grew up around a small boatyard in Upper Narragansett Bay. My first memory of working on boats is as a child and watching Godfrey "Unk" F. Allen (a master shipwright, and boat-builder) re-caulk, re-paint and service wooden yachts (some of which he built). I also spent each winter-storage period at Narragansett Terrace Boat Yard, in Riverside, Rhode Island, where I grew up (and continue to live and sail on). Fiberglass boats were short on inventory at NTBY; where wooden boats remained the primary focus.

After a short tenure as a diver, with the U.S. Navy, I moved back to Rhode Island and went back to school, while continuing to work along the waterfront. I also worked as a rigger for James Bliss & Company, Inc. (a marine chandlery headquartered in Dedham, MA), and was lifted-up, to supervisor of operations for all (10) locations. I gravitated back to the waterfront and briefly worked as a project manager for a yacht charter company on Newport’s, Long Wharf (after that business was completely destroyed by Hurricane Gloria). After that mission was complete…

The mid-80s provided me with the best work/study program - that money could never buy. I was requested to join the work-force at Little Harbor Marine, Portsmouth, RI. While there, I was able to dive into almost every aspect of the marine industry; boat-building, boat deliveries, turning wrenches, wiring electrical panels, foreign travel, project management, service management. By the end of the 90s; I was able to attain a Graduate 'Degree', Ted Hood's School of Yacht Technology.

At the beginning of the new millennium; I took all those skills that I could gather, and started work as a marine surveyor. I managed to move through all the flaming-hoops for their accreditation process, and was accepted into the Society of Accredited Marine Surveyors. After surveying anywhere from 130 - 150-boats per year (and approximately 2,600 vessels); Bravo Marine Associates provided me with a living and more than 20-years of doing exactly what I wanted… working around boats. When I am not working around boats; I am playing around boats. This is very serious business.

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Naval Architect at Matthew Smith.