Susan Snider | 910.622.4394 • Kelly Strickland | 910.612.6537 • Larisa Gadalla | 910.777.4882 Michelle Clark | 910.367.9767 • Wendy McElhinney | 910.515.5495 Linda Woods | 910.233.8900 • Alison Long | 910.520.5949 739,900 $1634 Verrazzano Drive 3 bedrooms on first level 859,000 $1315 Hydrangea Court Waterford at its best 809 Fox Ridge Lane $499,000 $664,000 Private yard with screened porch $1,149,816 29 W. Greensboro Street Beautiful views of WB sound $459,000 6312 Shinnwood Road Recently updated home off Greenville Loop 545 Moss Tree Drive Golf course and pond front $565,656 1308 Edgewater Club Drive No. 10 Waterfront with boatslip $272,727 6 Keaton Avenue Charming 1940s Cottage “This was my first experience selling a home. Michelle made what could have been a very difficult and overwhelming experience much easier as she explained and guided me through each step of the process. Thank you, Michelle, for a job well done!”— Ginger Wells When Gunboat founder and CEO Peter Johnstone was looking for a place to build boats in the United States, North Carolina’s central location on the Atlantic coast, the availability of facilities suitable for large yacht production, and a labor force with a history of boat building and woodworking were major factors in the company’s move to Wanchese in 2012. The state provided an incentive package that included rehabilitation of the former Buddy Davis Boatworks and the construction of an access ramp wide enough to accommodate the company’s catamarans. Gunboat’s lightweight, high-speed catamaran sailboats were first built in South Africa, and later China and Holland, but the nine boats under construction in Wanchese make it the primary facility now, employing 125 workers, and Johnstone expects it to expand more in the next few years. “We are so grateful for the warm welcome that we have gotten from everyone, whether it’s neighbors, or other builders around us, the various distributors, suppliers, and subcontrac-tors,” Johnstone says. “North Carolina is really special; it has terrific people.” Steve Brodie, president of Pacific Seacraft Yachts in Washington, NC, says North Carolina’s woodworkers are world class. “We have some incredibly talented woodworkers here, some with long boat building backgrounds, some with custom furniture backgrounds, who bring some unique and varied skillsets on the woodworking side,” Brodie says. Production manager Raul Olivares, left, reviews deck plans for a new PS-40 sailboat with Pacific Seacraft owner Steve Brodie in Washington, North Carolina. PHOTO BY BILL KUND 38 WBM may 2015
Wrightsville Beach Magazine May 2015
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