At Island Boats, we strive to meet the three key areas we believe are essential to a quality vessel. These three key areas are: + Quality Design + Quality Construction + Quality Systems

Quality Design
A high quality design is the result of combining progressive thinking with lessons of the past. At Island Boats we combine computer lofting, fairing and parts generation with numerically controlled plasma cutting and forming. We streamline our projects to maintain delivery and reduced costs. Ask your engineer if his design process will include:

Quality Construction
The owner of our company is a licensed professional engineer whose major area of study was structures and materials at Louisiana State University, an A&M college. Our project managers are graduates of a state university in Industrial Technology. Our workforce is comprised of individuals who have been involved in the boat construction industry all of their lives. We utilize engineering assets from the United States and worldwide. All of our welders are USCG/ABS certified to approved welding procedures. Our workforce is comprised of metal workers that are among the best in the world. Long experience with lightweight aluminum structures and custom fabrication makes for tremendous efficiency in the shop and shortens build times.

Quality Systems
If you combine a quality design and a quality hull, it is only as good as the systems that support it. When purchasing your next vessel, you should ask direct questions about your essential systems: steering, exhaust, bilge, main propulsion and fuel. These questions should include:

• Does the yard provide 316 seamless tubing for all steering piping?
• Does the yard provide high strength/corrosion materials for the rudder such as 316 stainless steel and Aquamet shafting?
• Does the yard provide high quality steering gear such as Jastram or Kobelt?
• Does the yard install flanged connections on all through hull fittings to minimize repair cost if a screwed connection to the hull should fail?
• Does the yard provide high quality 316 SST piping on the inlet cooling water to generators and main engines.
• Does the yard provide 500 degree "Red" silicone hose, where required, on the exhaust system?
• Does the yard provide all 316 sst water injection pieces on the exhaust system?
• Does the yard provide high quality components for the bilge system.
• Does the yard provide rugged mountings and engine beds?
• Does the yard provide 316 sst tubing on the fuel supply and return piping?

Remember: Your business has enough variables in it already. The one thing you must count on is that your piece of equipment will start every time you push that button. The key to that is having quality systems in your vessel. Island Boats is the provider that delivers.