Stephanie Smith started her journalism career at small-town newspapers, writing about everything from obits and crime to local weather, calling people to check their back yard rain gauges after every storm. She gathered awards along the way for breaking news about the still unsolved pipe-bomb killing of a small drug company executive in Texarkana, Texas, and special projects for a three-part series about white politicians steering votes by paying black church leaders to haul their congregations to the polls.
Stephanie was a staff writer at Vernon (Texas) Daily Record, Texarkana Gazette, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Palm Beach Daily Business Review and The Palm Beach Post. She covered beats including courts, the business of law, publicly traded hospitality and communication companies, and the tourism industry.
She continued freelance writing after leaving daily newspapers to join the family business restoring antique and classic wooden boats, growing Moores Marine from a mobile shop that operated out of a former bread delivery truck to three boatyards and boat shops in Florida and North Carolina. Applying her journalism experience, she developed a content-rich website featuring Moores Marine projects and monthly blogs at a time when most websites were merely online brochures still written in HTML.
As the premier wooden boat restoration company on the East Coast, Moores Marine’s notable projects included restoration of the presidential yacht, Honey Fitz, which served five U.S. presidents including John F. Kennedy, who named the 1931, 93-foot yacht after his maternal grandfather, John “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald. Moores Marine’s work has been featured in Yachting magazine, Power & Motoryacht, WoodenBoat, Soundings, as well as international publications.
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