Builders & Yards

San Francisco Bay

Anderson & Cristofani

900 Innes Avenue, India Basin, Hunters Point

partnership 1926 – 1988; boatbuilding on the site from c. 1875 · 2 open questions

Arques Boatyard

Napa Street then Johnson Street, Sausalito

1913 – ; the family shaped the Sausalito waterfront for a century · 2 open questions

Dickie Brothers / John W. Dickie & Son

Potrero Point, then Alameda

1871 – 1907 · 1 open question

Easom Boat Works

Sausalito

1955 – 1989

Kneass Boat Works

Mission Street, Pier 70 and 3rd Street, San Francisco

1868 – 1970 · 1 open question

George Krenkel

Amateur builder — Richmond, California

dates unverified · 1 open question

Madden & Lewis Company

200 Johnson Street, Richardson Bay, Sausalito

founding date unverified; a major fire in 1960 · 1 open question

Marinship

Sausalito — the war that reshaped the waterfront

1942 – 1946 · 2 open questions

Millerick Brothers

Boatbuilders — San Francisco Bay Area

dates unverified · 1 open question

Moore Dry Dock Company

Oakland Estuary

1905 – 1961

Moore Sailboats

Watsonville, California

dates not researched · 1 open question

Nunes Brothers Boat & Ways Co.

Second and Main, Old Town Sausalito

c. 1898 on the Sacramento River; Sausalito 1925 – 1959 · 3 open questions

Menotti Pasquinucci

Turney Street, Sausalito

1894 – c. 1955 · 1 open question

Reliance Boat & Ways Co.

Second and Main, Sausalito

1920 – 1925 · 1 open question

Richardson Bay Boatworks

Sausalito

1986 – present · 1 open question

Spaulding Boatworks / Spaulding Marine Center

600 Gate Five Road, Sausalito

1951 – present

Stephens Brothers Boat Builders

Stockton, California

active from the early 20th century · 1 open question

W. F. Stone & Son / Stone Boat Yard

Hunters Point → Tiburon → Harbor View → Oakland → Alameda

1853 – 2004 · 4 open questions

Svendsen's Boat Works

Alameda Marina, Alameda

1963 – 2016 under the founder's name

Matthew Turner

Shipbuilder — Hunters Point, then Benicia

1825 – 1909 · 2 open questions

Union Iron Works / Bethlehem San Francisco

Potrero Point, San Francisco

1849 – 1982 under Bethlehem · 1 open question

Southern California

Jensen Marine / Cal Yachts

Costa Mesa, California

1957 – ; sold to Bangor Punta 1968

Kettenburg Boat Works

Point Loma, San Diego

1918 – 1993

W. D. Schock Corp

Newport Beach, Corona and Santa Ana, California

1958 – present (family-owned to 2011)

Wilmington Boat Works

400 Yacht Street, Wilmington, California

1920 – 1958

Pacific Northwest

Blanchard Boat Company

Lake Union, Seattle

1919 – c. 1969

New England & the East Coast

Brooklin Boat Yard

Brooklin, Maine

1960 – present

Concordia Company

South Dartmouth, Massachusetts

1926 – present · 1 open question

Herreshoff Manufacturing Company

Bristol, Rhode Island

1878 – 1945

Hodgdon Yachts

East Boothbay, Maine

1816 – present

George F. Lawley & Son

Scituate, South Boston, then Neponset

1866 – 1945 or 1946 · 2 open questions

Luders Marine Construction Co.

Byram then Stamford, Connecticut

1908 – 1968

Henry B. Nevins, Inc.

City Island, New York

1907 – 1962 · 1 open question

Quincy Adams Yacht Yard

Germantown, Quincy, Massachusetts

1932 – 1968, on a site working from 1906 · 1 open question

Rice Brothers

East Boothbay, Maine

1894 – 1956

Smith and Rhuland

Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

1900 – 1967 or later · 1 open question

United Kingdom

Alexander Robertson & Sons

Sandbank, Argyll

1876 – 1980

Camper and Nicholsons

Gosport, Hampshire

1782 – 2005 (shipyard)

Charles Cooper

Boatbuilder — Teynham, Kent

dates unverified · 1 open question

Scandinavia & Northern Europe

Abeking & Rasmussen

Lemwerder, Germany

1907 – present

Anker & Jensen

Norway

1905 –

Arendals Yard, Gothenburg

Gothenburg, Sweden

first Folkboat 1941–42 · 1 open question

Børresen Bådebyggeri

Vejle, Denmark

from the mid-1930s · 2 open questions

Hong Kong & the Asian Yards

American Marine Ltd. — Grand Banks

Junk Bay, Hong Kong; later Singapore

1962 – ; wooden construction ended 1974 · 1 open question

Cheoy Lee Shipyard

Shanghai, then Hong Kong

family shipbuilding from the 1870s; Hong Kong from 1936

Okamoto Boatyard

Japan

dates unverified · 1 open question

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