{"id":100,"date":"2016-02-25T17:01:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T17:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmarine.com\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2020-01-23T15:32:36","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T15:32:36","slug":"tmi-employee-spotlight-february-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmarine.com\/blog\/tmi-employee-spotlight-february-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"TMI Employee Spotlight February 2016 – Robbie Douberly"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RobbieD\"<\/a>Robert \u201cRobbie\u201d Douberly <\/strong>
\n Finishes and Varnish<\/strong><\/p>\n

Robert \u201cRobbie\u201d Douberly, the Head of the Finish Department at TMI is a Savannah native born and bred. \u00a0His family has a history of boat building in Thunderbolt dating from the early 30\u2019s to the 70\u2019s.\u00a0 His Great Grandfather and his Grandfather built shrimp boats off\u00a0the bluff in Thunderbolt, employing the Portuguese traditions and techniques of their heritage, only bringing the vessels into the commercial boat yard for the finer touches.\u00a0 His family made their home in Thunderbolt and Robbie\u2019s Mother worked at the old convenience store located\u00a0in what is now the Main Offices of Thunderbolt Marine. As\u00a0a child, riding his bike through the neighborhood he would stop in at the store, look through the gates and marvel at the scope of work carried out on the yachts coming to Thunderbolt from around the world.<\/p>\n

During Robbie’s\u00a0early school years, the family moved to Texas but Thunderbolt called them back.\u00a0 While in high school to earn money on weekends and evenings, he\u00a0learned the basics of painting and varnishing at local marinas as well as the yard based on the property that is now TMI.\u00a0 Like many young adults, Robbie was bitten by a travel bug and used his new found skills to secure work in various boat yards along the way, in the U.S. as well as a summer in Germany, which is his most memorable experience. He feels that these travels broadened the knowledge of his craft. \u00a0Working pretty much every day of the first\u00a0two months he was there, but taking advantage of a month of free time. Hitchhiking, \u00a0he explored much of the country. His favorite time was spent in the small villages in the Bavarian Alps.<\/p>\n

Robbie oversees four craftsmen, whose skills include a wide variety of finishes on furniture, walls, flooring and rails, including faux finish, spray and brush applications, satin and hi-gloss finishes and color matching of paints.\u00a0 With two prep\/finish buildings at his disposal, there is little that presents Robbie\u2019s team a problem.\u00a0 Robbie is knowledgeable in exterior painting & fairing as well, working with his brother Adam, the Head of TMI\u2019s Paint Department.\u00a0 That experience along with his expertise with interior finishes and all varnish work, make him quite an asset to the company.<\/p>\n

Robbie lives on nearby Wilmington Island with Michelle and their rescued Rottweiler, Zeke.\u00a0 He spends a lot of his free time involved in various local outreach programs and volunteer organizations like the local humane society, spending time with a good friend, walking the adoptable dogs as well as giving them much needed attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert \u201cRobbie\u201d Douberly Finishes and Varnish Robert \u201cRobbie\u201d Douberly, the Head of the Finish Department at TMI is a Savannah native born and bred. \u00a0His family has a history of boat building in Thunderbolt dating from the early 30\u2019s to the 70\u2019s.\u00a0 His Great Grandfather and his Grandfather built shrimp boats off\u00a0the bluff in Thunderbolt, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmarine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmarine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmarine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmarine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmarine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmarine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmarine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmarine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmarine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmarine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmarine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}