T&T: A Cautionary Tale or the worst possible luck

[C. Marin Faure]

 >The reason for opening the Singapore plant was the Kowloon plant  
wassimply unable to meet the production demands.

I have some photos in a book at home showing American Marine's  
Kowloon plant when it was going full-bore.  Because of the quality of  
the boats, I guess I expected their manufacturing facilities to be on  
the same par. I'm sure the relatively new Malaysia plant is very nice  
and modern.  I've never seen pictures of the Singapore plant.  But  
the Kowloon plant was hideous.  In its heyday, it looked like a long- 
abandoned cannery in SE Alaska.  The photo of the water-side of the  
plant is amazing-- there's a row of rusting, paint-peeling corrugated  
metal sheds with "American Marine" in fading and peeling paint over  
the center door, and inside the open bays at the top of the sets of  
rails going down into the water are all these gleaming varnished  
transoms with a pristine lineup of beautiful new boats at the dock in  
the foreground.  Quite a contrast....