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Southern California shipyard Marine Group Boat

Works (MGBW) has mastered the art of balancing yacht,

Marine Group commercial and government vessel repair work, with a bit

Boat Works of newbuild activity as well. Over the past three years or so,

MGBW’s workload has been about 60% yachts and the re- maining 40% a mix of commercial and government vessel projects. From both an operational and business point of view, chasing multiple markets certainly presents a number of challenges. But on the other hand, this model also pro- vides more opportunity as diversi? cation can help a yard stay busy through market dips and cycles. “That’s always been our mantra,” said MGBW president Todd Roberts. “We call ourselves a three-legged stool, and years ago we added a fourth leg. Our yacht business is one leg of the stool, commercial is another leg, navy repair is another and new construction is the fourth. It’s really hard to fall over when you have four legs.”

MGBW recently completed a fairly large $4.6 million program for Golden Gate Ferry to service and repair four high speed, aluminum passenger ferries, with more work for the same customer presently underway. Roberts said MGBW recently did some work for Edison Chouest

Offshore where it as able to haul a series of tractor tugs in a row to get them through their credit dry dock pro- cess. Roberts also mentioned two large tug projects for

Crowley, including one that saw MGBW repaint the vessel from red to Crowley’s new blue. And with new even new construction projects.

stricter emissions rules coming down the line for harbor MGBW’s new construction work is primarily for the craft in California, MGBW is about to get a whole lot U.S. Navy, and it is currently building two high-speed pa- busier amid a sharp demand increase for repower and trol boats that the U.S. will transfer to Jordan.

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