President.

Owner & CEO of Bristol Marine.

Treasurer.

General Manager of Bristol Marine Boothbay Harbor, Maine.

Secretary.

Naval Architect at Matthew Smith.

Board Member.

As Fredk C. Bieberbach, Jr., AMS, I grew up around a small boatyard in Upper Narragansett Bay. My first memory of working on boats is as a child and watching Godfrey "Unk" F. Allen (a master shipwright, and boat-builder) re-caulk, re-paint and service wooden yachts (some of which he built). I also spent each winter-storage period at Narragansett Terrace Boat Yard, in Riverside, Rhode Island, where I grew up (and continue to live and sail on). Fiberglass boats were short on inventory at NTBY; where wooden boats remained the primary focus.

After a short tenure as a diver, with the U.S. Navy, I moved back to Rhode Island and went back to school, while continuing to work along the waterfront. I also worked as a rigger for James Bliss & Company, Inc. (a marine chandlery headquartered in Dedham, MA), and was lifted-up, to supervisor of operations for all (10) locations. I gravitated back to the waterfront and briefly worked as a project manager for a yacht charter company on Newport’s, Long Wharf (after that business was completely destroyed by Hurricane Gloria). After that mission was complete…

The mid-80s provided me with the best work/study program - that money could never buy. I was requested to join the work-force at Little Harbor Marine, Portsmouth, RI. While there, I was able to dive into almost every aspect of the marine industry; boat-building, boat deliveries, turning wrenches, wiring electrical panels, foreign travel, project management, service management. By the end of the 90s; I was able to attain a Graduate 'Degree', Ted Hood's School of Yacht Technology.

At the beginning of the new millennium; I took all those skills that I could gather, and started work as a marine surveyor. I managed to move through all the flaming-hoops for their accreditation process, and was accepted into the Society of Accredited Marine Surveyors. After surveying anywhere from 130 - 150-boats per year (and approximately 2,600 vessels); Bravo Marine Associates provided me with a living and more than 20-years of doing exactly what I wanted… working around boats. When I am not working around boats; I am playing around boats. This is very serious business.

Board Member.

Managing Partner at Herreshoff Designs.