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A good day, says Front Street Shipyard President JB Turner, is when he's working on “some kind of fun project with a good group of people. Everything goes well, there are no stumbling blocks and the employees are not unhappy.”By that definition, Turner's days as the managing partner of the six-acre shipyard on Belfast's waterfront have been decidedly “good.”
Gifts for the Saw that Cuts Everything (Photo: Ethan Andrews) select Front Street Shipyardâs new water jet cutting machine (Photo: Front Street Shipyard) Front Street Shipyard recently acquired the largest water jet cutting machine in the state — a five-axis, 3D, Suprema DX 1340 model from Waterjet USA. It cost close to $1 million and can cut just about anything. Much of the actual cutting is done by garnet sand, which is mixed with the water and shot out of a nozzle in a high-pressure stream — three times the speed of sound, ac...