RIGHT TOP TO BOTTOM: Devlin’s Sea Swift 19 sailboat (photo Debra Colvin) and his Pelicano 20 outboard camp cruiser.


plays a bit to that trend, helping us to smooth out the lumps of life with our time on the water. But the expense is conflicting and challenging. And is it healthy for us to escape to the water if it’s at the expense of doing what we can to make the world a better place? Not sure about the answers, but many issues need attention in the marine industry. All markets saturate and plug-up with the acres of used boats. So as a designer and builder those can either be seen as opportunities for new niches or we can go fetal in our own reaction to a rapidly changing market. But it’s all about energy, and the fostering, expending, and building of that energy…and as I mature, the handling and management of that energy becomes more and more important to my daily pursuits.


We know you have a passion for fly- fishing in distant places, and cruises up and down the Inside Passage to Alaska. Any other things you’d like to do away from the office...and have you started thinking about some retire- ment goals?


I love building boat models and want to move to more modeling of boats and new designs. It’s a fairly simple thing to CNC-cut scale models, and I would like to work more with those pursuits. I am most certainly getting “not younger,” and while I can feel some of my own dreams for great voyages and adventures on the water become more faded in de- sire and drive, I still may have a couple of tricks up my sleeve in terms of some neat boating ideas and adventures.


Who knows? I just need to remind myself that I am driving this ship—no one else. And also to keep in mind most designers don’t peak till their mid-sev- enties or eighties. I might have another 20 years to my career. Who knows what will happen? Tanks for the time. •SCA•


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