Captain Zane took the challenge and ran with it!
Just over a year ago, Zane Naquin accepted the opportunity to move from the beautiful M/V Kathleen Dupre, a 4 year old vessel, and become the Captain of the newly acquired M/V Kylie Dupre, a vessel built in 1999. Although still a fairly new boat in “vessel years”, the Kylie was definitely a work in progress.
Rory put his faith in Zane, who is now 31 years old and a part of Dupre Marine for about 8 years, to bring this older vessel up to Dupre Marine standards, which are pretty high. The Kylie would definitely need a lot of TLC. Rory has said the older vessels should look as good as the newest ones; with hard work, cleaning, painting and keeping the safety standards at Zero discrepancies; all it takes is a Captain who is a strong leader. Zane said no problem, he would make it happen.
In just a year, Captain Zane has made that happen. He has surrounded himself with a crew that possesses the same passion as he maintains. He also surrounds himself with a wonderful family life with his wife Nina and their 2 children here in Houma, Louisiana. Both are important to a good balance and structure to his work/home life. And not only a strong leader, but Zane is well liked by all the other crew members and a great teacher to his nephew, Seth Helmer, now a steersman on the M/V Kylie Dupre.
Captain Zane Naquin and crew have turned the M/V Kylie Dupre into a beautiful well run vessel. Pristine. Hard work that also resulted in accolades such as a first year No Harm Award and in the past couple of weeks has received a Zero for the Kirby Inland Marine Safety Audit and now a clean SIRE audit with zero findings.
Zane’s passion shows. He exudes Dupre Marine culture. He took the challenge, ran with it and succeeded.
