When the yard opened in 1949, Blount was only one of two boatyards building Catamarans. The "Rhodoyster" (hull #2) was a 73' X 21' oyster vessel built using two 7' diameter steel tubes as hulls. The vessel had an impressive oyster hold capacity of 70 tons. According to Blount, when he took the vessel into the open ocean and ran beam to the sea, the ride quickly deteriorated. This characteristic discouraged him and he turned his efforts back to monohulls.

Conclusion
Recently launched and presently being sea trialed on the Warren River is a 131' 600 passenger dinner boat (hull #303). The third 105' Oyster dredge boat (hull #304) is under construction for Tallmadge Brothers of South Norwalk, Connecticut. There are plans to start construction on another dinner and passenger boat. Blount is still hard at work on the development of a larger high speed Ultra-light Catamaran. He hopes to go down in history as building the lightest fast ferry ever.

After 5 decades of boat building Blount Industries is best known for building heavily constructed, long-lasting steel hull boats. While the onboard systems on the new boats are state of the art, Blount has stayed with and honed the lines of vessels that work well. If you visit a busy port such as New York Harbor you can still see some of the first Blount built boats still in service.