Eight Bells for Dave Walters, Sailor, Boat Builder, Yacht Broker and Great Guy

Fort Lauderdale, Fl – David E. Walters, Sr. died on Jan. 17, 2018, at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He was 75. The cause of death was a brain tumor. Born on April 23, 1942, Dave was the son of Elzey and Ginny Walters. As a boy growing up on Long Island Sound, Dave took to the water at an early age, and, alongside his two younger brothers, Craig and Kenny, spent hours catching the wind in their sails. A graduate of Bucknell College, Dave began his apprenticeship in the late 1960s, for a fifty-year career in the boat business, under the tutelage of Howard Foster, at Allied Boats Company, in Catskill, New York. In 1971, he set up Sound Yachts Boat Yard and Marina, in New Rochelle, NY. Then, in 1975, in partnership with Walter Schultz, they established Shannon Yachts, in Bristol, RI. Read more.