Sintes Boat Works boatyard in 2015.
This file appears in: Sintes Boat Works: Life and Business on the Banks of Lake Pontchartrain
Sintes Boat Works ten years after Hurricane Katrina, with the same crane that was purchased by Lawrence Sintes Sr.
This file appears in: Sintes Boat Works: Life and Business on the Banks of Lake Pontchartrain
Sintes Boat Works: Life and Business on the Banks of Lake Pontchartrain
In 1952, Lawrence Sintes Sr. opened Sintes Boat Works on the edge of Orleans Marina in Lake Pontchartrain with his oldest son, Lawrence Sintes Jr. The Sintes family’s move to the area, known as the West End neighborhood, coincided with a…