Ernie Hallas with his new "MAKO" 1972

Ernie with his new Mako Twenty with a 135 HP Evinrude at the dock at Williams Cottages on Little Torch Key Ernie was a great friend I first met in Wichita in March 1956 when I went to work at Boeing in the instrument shop he was my supervisor until he left to go to work at Eastern Air Lines in Jan '57 In Jan '58 I too moved back to Florida with my first wife Betty Jean and we were reacquainted with the Hallas family His three sons remain good friends today and they email often and send pictures of their families