{"id":95,"date":"2015-10-02T20:15:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T20:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmarine.com\/blog\/?p=95"},"modified":"2020-01-23T15:44:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T15:44:10","slug":"tmi-employee-spotlight-october-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmarine.com\/blog\/tmi-employee-spotlight-october-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"TMI Employee Spotlight October 2015 &#8211; Frank Chance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Robbie Christy<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Canvas &amp; Upholstery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Robbie is a true Savannah Native. Born in Savannah he, has lived here his entire life.\u00a0 Graduating from Savannah Technical College with an associate\u2019s degree in Electronic\/Computer Engineering he worked for Union Camp Chemical for 10 years as an Instrument Technician.\u00a0 Robbie discovered \u00a0a need in the local marketplace for a qualified marine canvas shop after several unsuccessful attempts at finding anyone willing to travel\u00a0to him and provide a quote for a flybridge enclosure for his 29ft. \u00a0Wellcraft.\u00a0 \u00a0Frustrated, he bought a used commercial sewing machine and built the enclosure himself.\u00a0 The rest, as they say, \u00a0is history.\u00a0 \u00a0Robbie started his own boat canvas &amp; upholstery business, Sea Stitch, \u00a0in 1992, running the business for 2 years while still working \u00a0at Union Camp.\u00a0 Word spread quickly and the business grew.\u00a0 Not having prior experience in the canvas business, Robbie\u00a0hired 2 very experienced custom canvas makers from the Jacksonville area.\u00a0 They taught him the tricks of the trade as the business grew, eventually establishing relationships with the large refit yards in Savannah at the time Robbie\u2019s business became the go to shop for the mega-yachts in those yards and boat owners in the Savannah area.\u00a0 Robbie brought his experience to TMI, joining us in 2012 as Head of the Canvas &amp; Upholstery Department.\u00a0 In his free time Robbie enjoys watching football, bass fishing and RVing with his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robbie Christy Canvas &amp; Upholstery \u00a0Robbie is a true Savannah Native. Born in Savannah he, has lived here his entire life.\u00a0 Graduating from Savannah Technical College with an associate\u2019s degree in Electronic\/Computer Engineering he worked for Union Camp Chemical for 10 years as an Instrument Technician.\u00a0 Robbie discovered \u00a0a need in the local marketplace for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":97,"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\/95"}],"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=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmarine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmarine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmarine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmarine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmarine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmarine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}