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Cups & Minesweepers. Under Nevins' skilled hand, his yard turned out such ships (designed chiefly by Sparkman & Stephens) as John Nicholas Brown's Bolero, which has twice been first-boat-in in the Bermuda race; R.J. Schaefer's Edlu I, winner of the 1934 Bermuda; Henry Morgan'...
Most were sailing craft, but for Richard Hoyt, onetime board chairman of Curtiss-Wright, Nevins built the high-powered Teaser, which raced the crack 20th Century Limited from Albany to New York.
(The boat won.) Few owners ever asked Nevins for a price before signing the contract, even though it might be upwards of $75,000; instead, they relied on Nevins to set a fair charge when the boat was delivered.
During World War II the Nevins yard built minesweepers and aircraft-rescue boats. But when war orders ended, Nevins found he could no longer make profits on new boats. Nevertheless, he kept building, often turning out yachts at cost just to give jobs to his workmen, some of whom had...
Decline & Fall. Before his death, he turned the helm over to Arthur Gauss, who had been with the company for eleven years, with instructions to keep the yard going. But Mrs. Nevins, who inherited all the company's stock, now finds that the cost would be too much. Gauss...