Posted on 1/12/2016
Gold Coast Yachts partners Rich Difede and Roger Hatfield are veteran boatbuilders who’ve seen almost all the changes in techniques, materials, styles, budgets, and buyers in the modern multihull market.
Their observations about boats, boat design, and the business of boatbuilding are consistently imaginative, optimistic, and pragmatic, even in the current economy. Steve Callahan’s complete profile of Gold Coast Yachts, “Their Phone Is Ringing,” appears in Professional BoatBuilder No. 124.On Designer-Builder Dick Newick Roger Hatfield was heavily influenced by Dick Newic...