Freedom Boatworks

Regulator Marine gets its namesake from rugged individuals known as the North Carolina Regulators who rebelled and revolted against excessive injustices excised against the colony by the provincial government during the years preceding the American Revolution. The company s fleet consists of offshore sport fishing boats that range from 23- through 32-foot models. Regulator has earned the highly coveted CSI Award for outstanding product quality and dealership performance in the category of Fiberglass Outboard Boats, presented by the National Marine Manufacturers Association as rated by Regulator customers throughout the country. All boat models are NMMA certified, meeting the industry s highest manufacturing standards. Regulator s entire engineering and manufacturing team are trained under stringent Six Sigma quality principles incorporated throughout the manufacturing work environment. Regulator Marine is located in Edenton, N.C.

Bayliss Boatworks, one of the most famous boat manufacturers in Wanchese, N.C., specializes in building custom sportfishing yachts for some of the best anglers and crews in the world. The company has a state-of-the-art facility with three construction bays, 45-inch paint-spraying shop and a 12-inch by 40-inch small parts paint booth and a 2000- square- foot cabinet woodworking shop for building custom interiors. It uses materials such as Okoume plywood, CoreCell Cores, W.E.S.T System Epoxy, sequenced-matched veneers, old-growth teak and figured cherry woods and corian and granite countertops and provides monthly progress reports to its clients.