Steve White, the son of prominent designer and Brooklin Boat Yard founder, Joel White, began building boats at thirteen. Among his first projects working for the boat yard were Martha’s Tender and Martha, both for his grandfather, E.B. White. Steve continued to work for his father throughout his adolescence, then he attended and graduated from Colby College in Maine.

After graduating college, Steve spent time traveling and working throughout the country. He calls himself an “unrealized professional skier,” as he has always enjoyed skiing and spent most of these years as a ski instructor in Colorado. One of his other jobs during this time was working on a tugboat in Morgan City, LA.

Eventually, Steve made his way back to Maine to work with his father at the boat yard. Together, the White men began to build a boat yard that both suited their personal skills and filled a niche in the wooden boatbuilding industry. Steve, a self-proclaimed “people person,” developed a growing clientele and managed the workforce which allowed Joel to focus more on designing, his real passion.

Steve says, “My dad had a lot of patience,” and, “We never had a single argument.” He credits the complimentary nature of their combined skillsets as a reason why they thrived as partners.

Under Steve’s direction, the Brooklin Boat Yard has continued to break boundaries in the world of wooden boatbuilding, a world where there are fewer and fewer shops creating one-of-a-kind dreamboats- all on time and within a budget.

Steve lives in Brooklin with his wife, Jen.