Photograph · Blackwell Boatworks

Builder · Wanchese, North Carolina

Blackwell

Craig Blackwell started building boats at sixteen in Bay City, Michigan, apprenticed five years with the Gougeon Brothers, worked at Monterey Marine in Florida and Davis Boatworks in North Carolina, and founded Blackwell Boatworks in Wanchese in 1988 with his wife Sandy. The yard has built more than sixty custom Carolina sportfishermen from 28 to 72 feet and is now run by his son Jeff Blackwell and Bow Meekins.

Hulls on record
7
Built between
1994–2006
Names carried
16
Renamed at least once
6

Hulls on recordBy decade, then hull number

  1. 1990s2 hulls

    Redemptionlaunched as Marked Off · 3 names since 1994HIN CSB00954L3941994
  2. Boss HoggO.N. 1048627 · 611996

  3. 2000s5 hulls

    Marked Offlaunched as Sweet Crude · 3 names since 2000HIN CSB01560D7002000
  4. Collie Hlaunched as Oh Well · 3 names since 2000HIN CSB02147K8002000
  5. Wreckerlaunched as Instigator · 2 names since 2000HIN CSB02257G9002000
  6. Maelaunched as Life Is Good · 2 names since 2006HIN CSB04165F506200665 ft
  7. El Bendidolaunched as Monica · 2 names since 2006HIN CSB04366I5062006

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