New Kid on the Dock
May 03, 2022
4 minutes
BY DANIEL HARDING JR.
The son of a Scandinavian fisherman, Hugo Vold gained his respect for the ocean at a young age. His father regularly encountered treacherous seas and storms while working the waters between Norway and Sweden, yet always made it home. Thankfully for the young Vold, fishermen—and their boats—are built hardier at higher latitudes.
After graduating from college, Hugo set out to build sport boats that shared the seakeeping ethos of his father’s fishing vessels, all of which were named . As a tribute to their strength, and his father, in 1966 the young man named his fledgling boatbuilding
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