February 12, 2021 By H. Nelson Spencer
Capt. Ronnie Paul Stevens, 51, knew at an early age he was going to be the captain one day of a towing vessel in the commercial marine industry. He loved being on the water and was raised around boats. His father worked at a shipyard in Lockport, La., where he was born and raised. Plus, his two best friends and their father worked on boats.
“Why wait?” he remembers asking himself when he was a sophomore in high school. “Why not just start my career right away, and make a good living doing what I love?”