The city has a municipal marina, along with other private marinas, boatyards, and yacht clubs. There are also boatyards at Crosshaven and two other marinas. Freshmen act as apprentices/mechanics in shipyards or boatyards, and sophomores as cadets/observers at sea. It has moorings, a marina and yacht support businesses, including rigging, sail making and boatyards. Boatbuilding became an important industry, and even now the community has two boatyards. Several boatyards specialise in boat sales, boat hire, boat building and repairs. These included liqueur producers, brick and building material factories, and boatyards building increasingly large vessels. It has two boatyards and a marina for 200 vessels. In the meantime J&J Design continued designing boats for Jeanneau and several other European boatyards. Until recent years there were three quite separate boatyards building traditional wooden clinker fishing vessels. Warehouses and boatyards were constructed in the 1880s in both European and Chinese styles. The California Boatyards played an important role in building steamboats for western expansion. From 1811 to 1888, boatyards produced more than 3,000 steamboats. The boatyards were located in Annapolis, City Island, Miami, and Los Angeles. Boatyards have increased in scale allowing storage and repairs of larger vessels.