Recently I watched an interview of Michael Rybovich.

Although our family wasn’t much into deep sea fishing, the Rybovich boat yard in West Palm Beach was a frequent stop during the years we were Cruising the Subtropics: Yachting in South Florida and the Bahamas. We sold them a yard yacht crane from our family business’ Special Products Division, shown at the right.

More significantly, when we almost went to the bottom (described in When You Need a Native Guide) we took our boat back to Rybovich for repair. (Mercifully it didn’t need much work.) Its departure from Rybovich is shown below.

Michael’s observations on boating, South Florida and being in a family business resonated with me, and I enjoyed it very much.