![]() Hampel collaborated on the design of the barge with Cox, Giddings’ general manager Mike Lee, and naval architect Bruce Culver. Observing alongside Cox on Friday was local seafood entrepreneur Jerry Hampel in his capacity as manager of Pacific Aquaculture, a division of Pacific Seafood. The barge was cut up on Friday, and by Friday afternoon, Giddings Boat Works owner Ray Cox was watching his employees prepare the sections for shipping. On Sunday, the sections will take off for Grand Coulee aboard a procession of four trucks, he said. That was the only way to get the 30-by-75-foot steel barge to Grand Coulee, Wash., where it’s going to haul fish and equipment up and down the Columbia for a Pacific Aquaculture steelhead farm. 12, 2015 - As soon as Giddings Boat Works employees finished their latest project, they had to cut it up in pieces. In a nation that has spent the past 50 years outsourcing its manufacturing sector, Cox’s company, against the odds, is booming.ĬHARLESTON, OREGON Sept. So where do you get your people from? Your experienced people?” As everyone knows, we don’t do anything in this country anymore. He’s a 20-something with short cropped hair and tattooed biceps.Ĭox reluctantly turns him away. ![]() On a Wednesday afternoon, an hour before quitting time at Cox’s two-story shop, another hopeful arrives. Time Lapse of the F/V Patriot emerging from our shop.ĬHARLESTON - By Coos County standards, Ray Cox has an enviable problem: He has too many jobs to fill. Giddings was featured on the Oregon Coast Digest.
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