Desperado Yacht Charters Hatteras 53 Luxury Motor Yacht
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Mid 1960's video taken at the Hatteras Yacht factory.
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Hatteras Yacht factory builiding with todays methods.
Hatteras would design a river patrol boat for the government to be used in the Vietnam conflict
North American Rockwell would be building spacecraft and rockets to the moon............fighter jets................supersonic bombers..............corporate jets................deep diving exploration subs.......and Hatteras yachts...............the year would be 1972. A gallon of gas cost 52 cents...........the average income $11,800..............avg. monthly rent $165.................your avg. home price $27,550. It would be the year the Dow Jones would go over 1000 for the first time.......Mark Spitz would win 7 Olympic golds for the USA...........Apollo 16 and 17 would put the first rover on the moon and the last men..........Richard Nixon would order the start of the space shuttle program and Watergate would become news and in Dec of 1972 Hatteras would begin building Desperado........................