摘要: |
Capt. Ronnie Paul Stevens, 51, knew at an early age he was going to be the captain one day of a towing vessel in the commercial marine industry. He loved being on the water and was raised around boats. His father worked at a shipyard in Lockport, La., where he was born and raised. Plus, his two best friends and their father worked on boats. "Why wait?" he remembers asking himself when he was a sophomore in high school. "Why not just start my career right away, and make a good living doing what I love?" At 16, then, eager to get started- and with a release from school by his parents required because of his being a minor-Stevens dropped out of school and went straight to work as a deckhand on the mv. Vicki Lynn, which was an 800 hp. towboat in the fleet of St. Charles Towing Company, where his friends, the Dufrenes, worked. |