TIME OUT WITH JOHN ARRUDA
Had everything gone to plan, John Arruda would be flying jets high above the water rather than building and installing exotic turbine engines for boats that scream across it. Born and raised in Oslo, Norway, where his father – a former F-4 jet pilot – owned an Evinrude/Johnson outboard dealership, he came to the United States in 1986 with dreams of flight. Those dreams didn’t pan out, yet Arruda, now 36, did end up with a pretty sweet gig as a yacht captain in south Florida.
