Vince Lucas

Been with B&B Since July 1998

Vince Lucas has been welding since 1972. Back then, Vince walked into the Bethlehem Steel shipyard and filled out an application. They taught him how to weld and he’s been doing it ever since. One of B&B’s crack welders, Vince also does some fitting work and, in his words, “basically whatever they tell me.” Some guys like to fool with the computers, but not Vince. “I’m too old to do that stuff,” he says. Vince spent countless hours with the submerged arc welder working on the Norfolk Naval Pier job. It was work that required extreme precision. ” Here quality control is 100 per cent,” Vince says. “The stuff has got to be right.” Laid back, friendly, and funny, Vince works hard during the week and goes fishing come the weekend. He fishes for “anything and everything.” He takes his sixteen-foot boat out whenever he has the chance. “I go out there more to relax,” he says. “Matter of fact, I could throw a line out in the water and go to sleep.”

updated 2009