Laura Rendell, Coastal Marine Care and Coastal Upholstery

By Dara Syrkin

Laura Rendell, owner of Coastal Marine Care (Portland, Maine), uses whatever mode of transportation is necessary to get the job done. “I do lots of work at our local Centerboard Yacht Club, and they gladly shuttle me in their runabout to any mooring. I travel, on average, a 15-mile radius and up to 70 miles. I have used customers’ tenders to row or motor to reach their boat on a mooring. I have been picked up by boat and brought to an island to work on a vessel on land there. Another time, I took a seaplane, ferry and taxi to reach a boatyard for work in the Caribbean.”