Blount Boats, Incorporated, formerly Blount Marine Corporation continues to provide the U.S. and many foreign nations with “task-masters of the sea” work boats that have won the praises of the ship building industry, vessels designed with imagination and built with a quality that strongly supports Blount’s motto: Built to serve – Built to last – Built by Blount. Courtesy “Taskmasters of the Sea” 1960.

The company builds sound, long-lasting, and cost-effective boats for
customers around the world. Each is designed with the operator’s needs
held in first consideration. Over 300 boats have been built on the prem-
ises since the company was first founded, including fast commuter boats,
dinner excursion boats, passenger and passenger/vehicle ferries, small
ship cruise vessels, tugs, bunkering tankers, oil supply boats, commercial
fishing boats, and glass- bottom boats.

Blount attributes a lot of his success as a boat builder to his natural ability as an inventor and his photographic memory. After 6 years as a plant engineer in a sewing plant and construction supervisor in the seafood industry, he became involved in commercial boat building. Blount's skills as an engineer, mechanist, inventor and captain helped him become a pioneer in the work boat industry. Over the past 50 years, this unique boat builder has designed and built high quality boats that have gone into most all sectors of the commercial work boat industry. Many of these boats are revolutionary in design and have set standards for the industry.

Blount built boats can be found working the following waters:
• From New England to Florida
• The Great Lakes
• Throughout the Caribbean Islands
• The Gulf of Mexico
• Numerous ports in Central and South America
• From Mexico to Alaska and west to Hawaii

To date, Blount has built boats in the following categories:
• More than 90 passenger ferries and 30 vehicle ferries
• 24 off-shore oil supply/tender vessels
• 20 commercial fishing vessels
• 20 dinner boats
• 17 harbor tugs
• 13 tanker vessels
• 14 barges
• 10 personnel launches
• 10 mini-cruise ships
• 8 head/party fishing boats
• 6 research boats
• 3 glass bottom boats
• 2 oil skimmers
• 2 survey boats
• 1 pilot boat

With the end of WWII, the late 1940's marked a resurge in the private sector growth of the U.S. economy. In the early 1950s a growing demand for ferries, harbor tankers, commercial fishing boats, harbor tugs and offshore supply vessels gave Blount a good market to build his shipyard upon. Blount's simple, logical, straight forward, and above all practical approach to both the design and construction of his boats provided customers with an affordable workable vessel. According to Blount, a big key to his success is that early on, people realized that the ones who owned Blount built boats were the ones making the money. In the first decade of operation Blount designed, built, and launched 63 vessels. Many repeat customers would follow.

The Hustad Marine Products Company, a subsidiary of the yard was formed in the 1950's. This company manufactured a number of Blounts patented marine inventions such as the Hustad marine window and the Hustad controllable pitch propeller.

During the 1960's Blount built a total of 94 boats, 41 being ferries. In 1966, Blount designed, built and began operating his first mini-cruise ship. To assist in the financing of this new venture he sold off 3 patents from Hustad Marine to the Avco Company for $50,000. He operated the vessel under the newly formed company American Canadian Line. To date a total of 10 of these vessels have been built, 9 for A.C.C.L. and one for another owner. The 1960's also marked the construction of the first hulls designed to go from displacement mode to planing mode. Over 20 semi- planing/planing hulls have been built. By 1970 ,152 boats where built.

The 1970s showed a boom in the U.S. oil drilling industry, increasing the demand for oil supply vessels. Blount built 10 large 0.S.V.'s making them the largest vessels the yard has built to date. There was expansion into building dinner boats and head fishing boats. The yard built its first aluminum boat. By 1980, 226 hulls had been designed built and launched by Blount.

During the 1980s, Blount faced increase competition from new boat builders. As more people started to utilize the U.S. waterways for recreational purposes, Blount designed and built 17 dinner boats, four of them among the largest dinner boats for their type afloat. Hitech boats, a division of Blount Industries was created. Hitech boats offers a patented design and construction method making a hull built of composite materials offering superb strength with appreciable weight savings.

In 1997, fifteen years after the creation of the Hi-tech hull, Blount created the Hi-tech Ultra-light Catamaran Division. This is an experimental high speed, low wake composite catamaran design. There are plans to build a larger jet powered 49 passenger harbor express shuttle.

During the 1990s Blount focused on building and operating mini cruise ships and the unique tender boats to service these vessels. The yard designed and built a number of passenger vehicle ferries. By the millennium, Blount has designed, built and launched 303 vessels. Out of all these, only a hand full are no longer in service.