Mikelson Yachts may not have been at the top of your radar, but this family business has been quiety turning out high-quality sportfish/cruisers for better than 40 years. After an adventure aboard the first express boat they’ve built in a generation, Chris Dixon joins Co-Owner PJ Sullivan for a wide-ranging discussion about Mikelson’s past, present, and future.
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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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