Seery, an American expat who has spent 30 years in Indonesia, crafted the tropical-hardwood vessel herself, supervising a small army of Sulawesi boat builders.

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It takes a significant number of vessels to service the offshore wind fields, and local boat builders are already looking to get into the game.

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"Typically in the boat-builder world, builders would do everything just because they could, " says Johns.

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