Interviewer: Victoria Phaneuf

Affiliation: University of Arizona

I met Mike Flechas while visiting one of his customer's boats on the drydock. [see fieldnotes] He came up to discuss when they planned to launch and we were introduced. His customer told him about the study, he seemed interested, and when he dropped by later in the afternoon to speak with the boat owner, he told me that I should drop by his office later and we could do an interview.

It took me a little while to find the office – the shipyard is spread out on a couple of different pieces of property, and while I knew where the second piece was it took some time to find the office door – there was no sign, just an outdoor light on the outside of a tan metal building. I walked around to where I heard someone working – it wasn't VP070, so I walked back to the building and knocked again, I finally heard a voice from inside.

We sat in his office – yet another shipyard office with all the pictures in boxes on the floor. [I realized the other day that of all the offices I've been to, only 2 have had pictures hanging on the walls, a sign of post-Katrina repairs.] I introduced both studies, he wasn't sure about the OH but agreed to participate in the shipbuilding study and to think about the other.