TOPIC: Texas Boat Manufacturers

Here's a listing of pleasure boat makers in Texas that I compiled. It may not be complete, so feel free to add and clarify. This is a listing of pleasure boat makers - not builders of large commercial ships and military craft.

Andreas

Glad to contribute. Here's what I can add from my database (I maintain an excel database of brand/company/city/state/address/persons/years/types/reference which I periodically update)

ARA Boats, A.R.A. Mfg. Co. of Grand Prairie, TX, circa 1960-1961, Fiberglass boats
Bay Mar Boats by Clipper Mfg. Co. of Forth Worth, TX and Jasper, FL, circa 1959, Fiberglass, Aluminum, Wood boats
Helton Boats, Boat Works, Inc. of Houston, TX, circa 1960-1961, Wood boats
Lakeliner Boats, Lamco, Inc. Lamasas, TX, circa 1959, Fiberglass boats
Bell-Craft Boats, Liberty Boat Works, Liberty, TX, circa 1954, wood boats
Terra-Marina boats, Terra-Marina Mfg. Co., Inc., Houston, TX, circa 1959, steel houseboats
Texas Longhorn Boat Mfg. Co., Inc. (nothing else known, except for an associated fellow by the name of Lawrence C. Moody)
Rexcraft, Houston, TX, circa 1957 (nothing else known)

Thanks for the additional stuff!

I have also created similar lists for MN, WI, IA, and IL

Andreas

Power Cat Boat Corp.

The Texas plant was opened in 1960 and I have
just recently verified that the last boats
produced from the molds in Victoria was
1983.