We were too young to get real jobs so we would knock on doors and offer to do work. When I got into high school, my parents allowed my brother Craig and I to start spending a lot more time on-island on one condition: We had to support ourselves. N MAGAZINE: You grew up on a farm in western Massachusetts and attended Georgetown University, but you could argue that your entrepreneurial roots trace back to a charter fishing boat on Nantucket.Д¬REELMAN: No question. We might leave the house a few times during our visit but mainly we fished, shell-fished and mucked around.

They were kind enough to let us rent every summer for a few weeks starting when I was in elementary school. They would land on Madaket Harbor and winch the plane up off the beach on railroad ties. It was a summer cottage that had served as a pontoon plane hangar for their family years earlier. N MAGAZINE: How and when did you first discover Nantucket?Д¬REELMAN: My introduction to Nantucket was вЂњStill WatersвЂќ on Eel Point, the family home of W.S. While the company might end up being CreelmanвЂ™s crowning achievement, Spindrift is just the latest venture in a long entrepreneurial journey that began on Nantucket. Launched by Bill Creelman in 2010, Spindrift has grown exponentially and shows no signs of going flat. In this bubbling marketplace, Spindrift has risen to the surface as an all-natural alternative to artificially sweetened sparkling waters. Some believe that seltzer will eventually eclipse soft drinks and sodas entirely. Sparkling water is the fastest growing segment in the beverage business. Photography By: Ken Richardson How Spindrift founder Bill Creelman got his entrepreneurial start on Nantucket.

Seltzer water drift