History
of Bay Marine
Bay Marine is a subchapter S corporation that was founded in 1975 by President, Robert E. Henry. Bob gained an equal partner in David J. Bonney in 1993. Dave had been employed by the firm since 1990. The firm size has varied over the years. The company started as a single man operation and has seen several periods of expansion with a one time complement of six personnel. Bob Henry died in December 2003 leaving Dave as sole owner. Bob was a wonderful person, a great friend and a superb Naval Architect. A page dedicated to the memory of Bob is under construction.
We call upon consultants to subcontract in the case of
increased workload. Increasingly over
the past 5 years, we have used specialists in the areas of Speed/Powering (HydroComp, Inc.), Seakeeping (
Since its founding, Bay Marine has been dedicated to
providing naval architecture and marine engineering services to the small to
mid size commercial fleet. As with many
companies within the marine industry, Bay Marine has adapted to provide
services to the markets most in need at any given time. We have been involved with the design of
fishing vessels, oil skimming vessels, research boats, barges, ferries as well
as commercial passenger and sail training vessels. We have worked with a variety of materials
from steel and aluminum to wood and fiberglass.
We pride ourselves on developing unique solutions to solve customers needs while maintaining cost efficiency in first
cost and life cycle costs. We both draw
on personal, practical experience in building vessels, and in Bob’s case,
operation of vessels. The experience in
building/operating and maintaining vessels allows a valuable perspective when
designing a boat. We know how to design
for ease of assembly and for long term maintenance.