Word: tramontin
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...Roberto Tramontin, 47, whose family has been making gondolas since 1884, knows something about apprentices. "I've had four of them in the last six years," he says. "I just don't think young people want to work today like they used to." Tramontin, who has one new gondola under construction in his yard and another being restored, says he currently has orders for 37 boats. "We do two a year," shrugs his father Nedis, who is still working even though he will turn 80 in September. "It's not like the old days, when we had more skilled workers...
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