In 2000, Bill Noon of Victoria, British Columbia, embarked on a program of restoration and improvement projects on his 50'powerboat, MESSENGER Ⅲ, that he thought would take 15 years to complete. The work has now stretched beyond two decades. But as it turns out, Noon, a retired Canadian Coast Guard captain, has been preserving a key element of the 75-year-old boat's heritage. His extended program of maintenance and upgrades has kept the boat in service continually and averted major restoration. The boat was built to work, and Noon, as only the third owner, has carried forward an ownership philosophy that I like to call "pragmatic functionalism."
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