On the banks of Louisiana's Bayou Lafourche, a symphony is hard at work. Rather than making music though, this symphony is creating boats. Ocean-going double hull barges, o shore oil vessels, tug boats, rigs, lift boats, push boats, and patrol boats for the U.S. Military. Everything originates from Bollinger Shipyards, a 70-year-old shipbuilder started by Donald Bollinger with help from three brothers returning from World War II. Shipbuilding at Bollinger may start with a design usually licensed from the Darnen Group, an international designer and builder of ships based in the Netherlands. A Darnen design is actually the foundation for the company's most recent Coast Guard order: 38 Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutters. This order is based on a Darnen Stan patrol vessel measuring 154 feet

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