Dom Medeiros — founder & master electrician.

§ 01 · How he got here

Dom grew up in the South End of New Bedford, in a Portuguese-American family with two grandparents from São Miguel and one uncle who fished out of Pier 3. He apprenticed through IBEW Local 223 from 1995 to 1999, did seven years of commercial-industrial work in Boston and Providence, and four years on the substation maintenance crew at Eversource. He crossed the Acushnet to take a generator-rebuild bench at Fairhaven Shipyard in 2004 and opened the shop on his own four years later.

§ 02 · What he does

Dom signs every coordination study, every arc-flash analysis, every survey-prep walk that goes out under the shop's name. He is the master rate on the rate sheet, and the master is the work that requires master-level signature: regulatory work, design work, and the kind of trade judgment that requires twenty years of bilge time.

He carries the truck mostly. He arrives first at the yard at 06:00, makes the coffee, and is on the State Pier by 07:00 on a typical day. He is the one captains call when the after-hours line rings.

§ 03 · What he believes

Quoting from the inaugural Friday meeting in March 2008, on the shop's front wall in fuchsin pink: "A clean board is a quiet boat. The shop's job is to make the silence boring."

Dom is also active in the regional trade community. He sits on the Massachusetts Division of Occupational Licensure's electrical-trades advisory panel as a working-vessel-trade voice, and he has been a guest speaker at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy on commercial-vessel electrical practice. He is an irregular reader of the WorkBoat magazine and a regular reader of Fisheries Supply's stock-clearance page.

Cross-references: Dom leads P-04 (switchboards) and P-07 (survey prep).