Excerpt from our 1995 catalog:
Coming up with new ideas for our catalog is sometimes as easy as looking out the window of our office at 89 Front St. in Marblehead. Right there below, on any given day, parade ideas from a half a dozen lifetimes at sea…we called ‘em the Boatyard Boys. Remember the TV show Hogans Heroes? Well, it’s a lot like that. Mark McCluskey, he’s Hogan. Lars is Carter, Toby is Newkirk, Ryan is Schultz and Ralph… he’s Colonel Klink. Anyway, this is the tool bag they all use. Because in addition to being the toughest, (24-ounce cotton duck), the meanest (a mouth the size of a killer whale’s), the most compartmentalized (24 separate compartments), tool bag in the world, it’s also the best darn vehicle for concealment transport, for getting “things” -- from Budweiser to bolt cutters -- through the boatyard unnoticed. And since they all carry the same bag, well, let’s just say the shell game starts every Friday afternoon about 4 PM.