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As a recent immigrant to Canada, I had completed an apprenticeship as a shipwright and found a good paying job in the shipyard, which allowed me to buy a three-bedroom house for my growing family. Three weeks before Christmas, the foreman at the shipyard gave me one hour's notice that I was laid off. I found piecemeal work to help pay the mortgage - then decided to go into business repairing boats. I rented a large warehouse, brought a chair from home, made a desk from a door and bought a brown manila envelope to put receipts in. I Need My Yacht by Friday, is the story of what happened next.

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Rod Baker, went to sea at age 16 and emigrated to Canada at age 21. He worked on towboats until one night, the boat he was on ran aground in Masset, Haida Gwaii and was run over by the barge. Rod decided to find work ashore and became an apprentice boatbuilder working at McQueens boat yard building 60' wooden yachts. He then worked at Bel Aire Shipyard until laid off. He started ad ran his own boat repair company for 20 years, until getting a Masters degree in Counselling and becoming executive director of Canadian Mental Health Association in New Westminster.

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