Another wrinkle on strip development.

• Position: Nirvana Sun Resort's Wayne Harbour

Being your own boss has its perks. You set your own hours. You wear what you want. In the case of developer Wayne Harbour, that's nothing at all.

"I think of myself like a lazy old guy who likes to lie around in the sun and who has a certain flair for starting businesses," he says. He made headlines in August when he announced Nirvana Sun Resort, a 36-acre nudist club and RV park outside Tabor City.

Prospects were sunny back then, but how's business in midwinter? The club has 51 members (couples pay $300 a year; singles, $175), and 16 RVs have moved in, with eight on the wait list. Folks drive from as far as Asheville to check out the pool, hot tub and each other. He predicts he'll have 300 members once sunbathing season returns.

He has volleyball, tennis and boccie courts sketched out. If things go well, he has "an understanding" to bring in a partner with 112 neighboring acres where they would build a clothing-optional housing development and motel. The idea is to put together package tours, say for golfing nudists keen on playing local courses (dressed, of course). There's plenty to be made from wearing nothing, he says. "It'll do well, or I wouldn't be fooling with it."

Harbour, 70, was born in St. Albans, W.Va., and played basketball in college - where he won't say because "they may be embarrassed." He worked as a Union Carbide engineer in California until 1955. The same year, he was invited to a nude volleyball tournament in San Bernardino...