PORT ANGELES – Having built a $30 million yacht, Westport Shipyard now will try its best to break it.
Evviva, the second 164-foot-long craft to come out of Westport’s Port Angeles assembly plant, hit the water Sunday morning and will start two weeks of sea trials today.
“We’re trying to break anything that’s going to break,” said Ryan Lemon, electrical supervisor at Westport.
“If anything breaks, we want to break on us – not on the owner.”
As it did with Vango, the shipyard’s first Port Angeles-built yacht that was launched last Feb. 6, Westport is staying mum about who owns Evviva.
Company officials said only that he is a married American believed to live Arizona.
The yacht may have an Old-World connection, however: Evviva means “Hurray!” or “This is the life!” in Italian.
