Freeman Boatworks

At Freeman Boatworks, marketing director Scott Cothran spins yarns to Chris Dixon on building for Jimmy Buffett, a new 28-footer and how internet trolling led to a dream job.

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Chris Dixon

Senior Editor, Power & Motoryacht
Chris Dixon is the author of Ghost Wave and The Ocean, The Ultimate Handbook of Nautical Knowledge. His writing has appeared in The New York Times bestseller The Southerner’s Handbook. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Outside, Popular Mechanics and Garden & Gun. He grew up boating, fishing and surfing along the coasts of South Carolina and Georgia, once spent a year working and traveling with Jimmy Buffett and today lives in Charleston with his wife, son and daughter.

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