If you ask Read Fasse how a former record executive and classically trained violinist ended up restoring vintage Boston Whalers in Nashville, Tennessee, he points to his childhood. Growing up, Fasse spent weekends on Georgia’s Lake Allatoona and summers on the Gulf Coast in Sarasota, Florida, where he whiled away the hours behind the wheel of his father’s 1979 15-foot Boston Whaler Striper. After the violin earned him a scholarship to the University of Miami, whenever he wasn’t studying or practicing, he was on the water—backcountry fishing in the Everglades or island hopping in the Bahamas. “There’s always been this underlying theme of boats in my life,” he says.