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| J. Parks Atkinson is a native of Virginia Beach, Virginia, has been around water and boats all his life starting what was to become a boat-building career by working on surf boards. That was in the late 60s and early 70s when short surfboards came into vogue. Parks and his brother, Frank, cut down their long boards and refinished them and then did the same for all their friends. Soon they were building boards for sale from scratch. He is now owner of NBC Boatworks, he started in 2006, importing pangas to the US. Parks Atkinson also purchases boats and restores them for resale. He also restores boats for others – building fish boxes, replacing transoms and decks, and installing hardware. Parks has been building Carolina Sport Fishing boats, and rigging boats the “Way a fisherman likes” since 1986. Parks also is a USCG Licensed captain and holds a Masters License up to l00-ton. He was a launch operator for harbor pilots for 12 years and presently works as a captain. Among his community activities:
In his business, he has custom built Carolina sportfishing boats and restored boats from different manufacturers such as Sea Craft, Topaz, Black Fin, Bertram and Regulator as well as a classic 1969 Boston Whaler Montauk for his wife. |
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