Ocean City Today
APRIL 26, 2013
NEWS 23A
Sans arm, Lisi runs charter fishing and roofing businesses with ease SHEILA R. CHERRY ■ Associate Editor/Bayside Gazette (April 26, 2013) Dale Lisi’s full time profession is running his Alexandria, Va. roofing company. His resort-based profession is chartering sport fishing trips and his pastime is helping boat builder Chris Haynes overhaul and prep Lisi’s charter boat “Foolish Pleasures” for the upcoming season. Not bad for a guy who seems oblivious to the idea that every day he shows he can succeed with one arm at more things than most people can with two. Capt. Dale has been chartering the sport fishing boat “Foolish Pleasures” out of the Ocean City Fishing Center, which he calls “the greatest marina in town,” for the past 10 years. Lisi, a big guy with an easy smile, said he has been fishing on the Eastern Shore since 1981 and described the area as a nice change from the city. Lisi owns Old Dominion Roofing, which also has contracts in Ocean Pines and Fenwick, Del. He says he has been roofing since age 12, having come from a family of roofers. Lisi said he has a five-man roofing crew who stay at his vacation house when working here. While he added that
he’d like to do fulltime roofing here, he said he has been lucky to always have business. “I run the business and sneak away to work on the boat in the summertime,” he said. He speaks in matter of fact terms about losing his arm during a boating accident in 1992. Without a hint of irony about an injury that for most would be life altering, he said, “I was out of work for three months.” Not to be outdone, Haynes, interjects with a joke that he would only have been out for two months. The two chuckle with one-upmanship banter, but Haynes never stops sanding. The schedule is tight: the first trip for the Foolish Pleasure’s summer season is June 1. The biggest thing is to ensure the preparation is right before the paint goes on, Haynes said. He sweats the finest details, transfixed on everything from smoothing the fiberglass just so, to faring out the ceiling. Haynes moved to the Eastern Shore from Annapolis over a year ago to continue a passion for boat building that, similar to Lisi, began to develop at age 5 while helping his father, who was a master boat builder.
ED GALYON
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BAYSIDE GAZETTE/SHEILA R. CHERRY
Boat owner Dale Lisi works to prepare his charter fishing boat “Foolish Pleasures” in time to sail by June 1. Lisi, who owns Old Dominion Roofing, said losing his left arm in 1992 in a boating accident only left him out of work while recuperating for three months.
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