The Pilot 19 is designed with a pilothouse, but after Haynes bumped his head a few times on the frame that supported the roof, he decided to keep the cockpit open. The result has worked well for family outings.photographs by Joe Haynes

The Pilot 19 is designed with a pilothouse, and Haynes started building his boat that way, but after he bumped his head a few times on the frame that supported the roof, he decided to keep the cockpit open. The result has worked well for family outings.

 Joe Haynes grew up in Detroit with three brothers and two sisters. Their father, once a tight end for the University of Michigan football team and later an Army sergeant who stormed beaches in the Pacific during World War II, was a very athletic man, but in spite of his best efforts to get his kids involved in sports, none of them showed any interest.

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