Tucker West became president and CEO of Kadey-Krogen Group in April 2021, after serving as vice president of sales for seven years, and following jobs at Grand Banks Yachts, The Catamaran Company and Sunsail. Today, he oversees the boat brands Krogen Yachts, Summit Motoryachts and American Tugs, giving boaters a choice of displacement, planing or semi-planing hulls, respectively.
His role as head of the Kadey-Krogen Group has been many years in the making, he says, with his whole lifetime spent on and around boats. “My crazy father used to work in the boating magazine business. He was with Cruising World, and he was one of the forces behind the Newport boat show,” West says. “We moved up to Rhode Island in the late ’70s. I was always around boats—driving a launch in Newport Harbor, sailing, all of that good stuff.”
Today, West lives in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, with his wife and three children. Two are in
