Background:

Birth Date:
2ND January 1965
Profession:

Merchant Marine Officer (deck Officer)

Dynamic Positioning Operator (DPO)

Electronic Naval Engineer

Engineering Projects Manager

In 1983 joined the Naval Academy (Admiral Padilla) Cartagena - Colombia.

Graduate as Naval Officer in 1986.

In the Naval Academy (Admiral Padilla) Graduate as Naval Engineer (1995).

Postgraduate as Engineering Projects Manager (1998) - Universidad del Norte - Barranquilla , Colombia.

Bernardo Lopez  (Technical  designer)

Mr. Bernardo worked as a kind of one Auditor in the project..

Responsible for the plans at all. In charge to make the wooden frames patterns in full scale from the papers plans sent by the yacht designer. 

Responsible to verify that all the real dimensions in details match the dimensions exactly accordingly to the yacht designer plans.

Responsible also for the material list, material specifications and weigh hull calculations.

For Mr. Bernardo Lopez the job was so easy, All his life has worked drawing ships plans under the Naval architects specifications, even since old days when CAD computer programs still did not exist.

He played important roll in the starting project to develop the hull shape from the plans. Frame by frame, detail by detail was made under his responsibility.

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Hector Camacho Arellana.

In charge  to carry out the metal hull construction, worker's foreman and responsible for the hull construction at all using his longer experience in metal boat building.

Very well known in the shipyard industry for your work contract  accomplish, quality and  good  management of personnel, equipments and materials.

Background:

Hector Camacho has 40 years of experience in metal boats building. He started in this profession   since the age of 18 years.  starting as technical drawer. He has made many technical courses at the SENA ( National Center of Learning) well reputable teaching institution in Colombia.

During all those years under his supervision as subcontracted or shipyard employed  has been made many kind of vessels; some of them listed below:

Colombian Navy Patrol crafts.

Fishing boats for VIKINGOS (Colombian fishing company).

Fishing boats for Venezuela, Nicaragua, Panama.

Barges for BANADEX - (banana expo company).

River and ocean tug boats.

Ferris used to cross the Magdalena river before the Pumarejo bridge be built.

Many industrial equipments as: bottles washing machines, High pressure tanks, etc.

Innumerable ships reforms and repairs has been made by Mr. Camacho during all those years.

Now, is the first time he is building one sailing boat. Sure will not be the last

Workers:        (They use friendly their nickname well know in Barranquilla)

All the welders listed below had worked also for many years in shipyards under Mr. Camacho direction, they hold their respective  certificate of competence as professional welders. For them, make the metal frames, bend and weld  plates has become a routing job after many years of experience doing the same. 

Jaun Ariza - Nickname: " El chino de Jalapa"

Blaz Jacobo Molinares - Nickname: " Manduco "

Donaldo Henrique Martinez - Nickname: " el pato" 

Juan Castro - Nickname : " el chino "

Armando Rafael Lance - Nickname: " biyuyo"

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