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Aluminum boats built with every detail engineered, designed, and executed with dedication. ACI Boats builds welded aluminum catamarans and monohulls for recreational and commercial use. Our boats are built to last a lifetime.  

We are founded on generations of boat building experience. ACI Boats is owned and operated by Cory Armstrong, and backed by a team of skilled craftsmen and women. When choosing a boat builder, quality and trust is everything– ACI boats delivers with a safe, and comfortable vessel that you can rely on.

Pybus Point Lodge is proud to announce the official launching of two brand new, catamaran style, fishing and touring boats from ACI Boats. This is the second time we’ve had the pleasure of working with ACI and once again, they exceeded our expectations. Since we run a premium fishing and adventure lodge, we don’t just have to worry about our boats being safe and functional–we also have to make sure that our boats have the style and comfort that our guests expect.

ACI Boats is thrilled to announce the official award of a $3 million dollar contract with American Samoa’s Departmant of Commerce for four “Super Alia” commercial fishing vessels. All four boats will be manufactured at ACI Boats’ facility in Port Townsend, WA. The vessels themselves will be 38’x14’ semi-displacement catamarans, designed by ACI Boats and Coastwise Marine Design. The first of the four vessels, to be completed in Fall/Winter 2022, will be used as a training platform for boat owners, captains, and deckhands. The following three boats, will be completed over the course of 18 months and will then be available for lease by the American Samoa Dept. of Commerce, intended to support the growth and safety of the local fishing fleet.

ACI Boats launches it’s first CatLander in it’s line of CatLander landing crafts. Built for the Jamestown Sklallam tribe in Washington State, the CatLander7500 will be used as a spill response support vessel by the tribe.

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has earned a solid reputation for pioneering and crafting the world’s most rugged aluminum catamarans and workboats since 1991.

The company was founded in Canada and moved to Port Angeles, WA in 2001. We gained new ownership under Bryton Marine Group in 2017, which fortified the company’s focus on our Core Values and strategic plan for our future.

“Our team has developed strong momentum with our boat portfolios and customers. As we look to the future, BRIX Marine will honor the legacy we have built and move beyond to deliver exceptional custom boats,” said Perry Knudson, Managing Director.

BRIX literally means the scientific measure of sweetness in liquid. This translates well to the high-performance boats the company is known for. “BRIX is more than a sweet riding hull,” said Knudson. “Our custom projects begin with the first communication and the relationship continues after the boat is delivered. BRIX is committed to an owner-centric approach.”

BRIX Marine has another important target. “We want to be the best place to work in our community,” said Knudson. BRIX employs master level craftsmen in the disciplines required to build welded aluminum boats. The company invests in defining career paths and training employees to gain the skills needed to advance in their fields.

The BRIX team will broaden and diversify its portfolio of welded aluminum boats, known as being “first in cats.” The newly redefined custom recreational portfolio is in high demand, and BRIX Marine is bringing this same innovative approach to other key markets.

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Archived schionning designs, the alaskan series is sized to fit between the prowler designs and the aquaplay. fantastic fuel economy and efficiency at high speeds. construction is a mix of flat panels and strip-planked curves., real passagemaking or ocean-crossing power catamarans.​, the alaskan power catamaran range fits between our prowler and aquaplay designs. the alaskan 41 follows a "classic" look while the alaskan 52 (15.9m) is more the "trawler" style of cat. both cats have the same underwater section with economical cruising speeds of around 15-16 knots. very much family boats capable of ocean crossings - our real passagemakers. both strip planked designs, the 41 offers an option of pre-made molded components for the major shell construction with full pre-cut interior kit., these designs are only available in new zealand territories.

• Available in 12.50m and 15.80m design models.
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Alaskan 41 Power Catamaran is a seaworthy passage maker, the Alaskan runs on very economical hulls, giving her cruising speeds of 16-17kts, and a top speed of 24kts pushed by just two 125hp Yanmar turbo diesels housed in separate engine rooms. With such small Horse Power and very economical hull shapes the Alaskan has the fuel consumption figures to embarrass even the most frugal of monohull designs. Cruising at 16-17kts fuel consumption is 1.3ltrs per Nautical mile giving the Alaskan a range of close to 1000 sea miles. Sophisticated and stylish with accommodation to suit live aboard cruisers and well set up for very easy entertaining, this design suits a wide range of applications and can literally go anywhere.

The Alaskan 52 The “Trawler” catchword is used on any and every type of vessel trying to project to the buyer a Trawler’s solid heavy-duty ability to handle the sea because of its working heritage. Usually they are heavy, slow and purpose designed with huge motors to pull trawl loads, and are not the boat to cruise in. This is like travelling in a semi-trailer instead of a motor home.

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Bay Welding’s focus is the construction of custom aluminum boats for State and Government agencies, commercial fishermen, charter operators, and private users.   Founded as a local metal repair and fabrication firm for the commercial fishing fleet, Bay Welding has evolved into one of the Northwest’s premier boat builders.

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Each boat is different. Bay Welding in Homer builds custom aluminum vessels, with an emphasis on the custom, yet they all share the same DNA. Prominent, muscular bows and railings guard the cabins like a knight’s helmet. Forward-leaning windshields lend each boat an aggressive look like they are charging. Characteristic swoops cut into the back of the cabin convey elegance and speed. And the big Suzuki outboards on the back – your average 30-foot gets close to a 50 knot top speed – back that up.

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When it was time to build the boat of our dreams, we knew the dedicated team of master craftsmen at Bay Welding would deliver. Bay Welding’s owner, Eric Engebretsen, and office manager, Galadriel King, spent countless hours guiding us through the build process, helping us to understand our options, developing innovative design solutions, and delivering our dream boat, Power Play. Thank you, Bay Welding, for helping us to realize our dream and welcoming us into the Bay Welding family.

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An Aluminum Boat Adventure in Alaska

• By Charles Plueddeman
• March 13, 2022

We approached the glacier with caution. The water was littered with growlers—floating chunks of blue-white ice, some the size of a 150-quart cooler. We steered around the largest and heard smaller pieces of ice bump the boat and then scrape harmlessly alongside the hull as we made way at idle speed. The air temperature grew cooler, and the water became milky in the outflow of the glacier, which, still a mile away, already appeared indescribably massive.

Our guide pointed out dozens of harbor seals sunning on growlers, perfectly comfortable and sound asleep with their backs on the ice. To port loomed a much bigger piece of ice, perhaps the size of an F-150 pickup truck. Maybe inspired by the seals, a crazy notion popped into my head. Here was my chance, perhaps the only opportunity in my lifetime, to stand on an iceberg. Many people fly to Alaska and see eagles soaring, catch a 100-pound halibut, or even spot a brown bear loping across the tundra. But how many are lucky enough—or dumb enough—to stand on top of an iceberg?

When I asked Capt. Tom Werth if he would maneuver me over to the ’berg, he just laughed and turned the wheel to begin our approach. In any other boat, climbing down onto the iceberg would be a tricky deal. But we were aboard Wango Bango , Werth’s custom aluminum adventure boat, which features a landing-craft-style bow ramp. When we got about 10 feet away from the iceberg, Werth lowered the ramp and edged close enough that I could simply step off the boat and onto the ice, then strike a gallant photo pose while my family shook their collective heads.

Werth did not order this boat with a bow ramp so he could deposit his Uncle Charles onto an iceberg. But when you have a rugged, welded-aluminum boat with a ramp, no adventure seems out of reach.

Born to Adventure

My sister’s oldest son, Werth is an Alaska native who grew up on the Kenai Peninsula and has long been attracted to the water. The family always had boats, one set up for fishing Cook Inlet, and another with a flat bottom for hunting trips down the Yukon River. While still in high school, Werth started working as a hand on a fishing charter boat out of Seward. He earned an OUPV (six-pack) captain’s license, and then captained a fishing charter out of Ninilchik for four summers, spent two more fishing out of Seward, and another as captain of a water taxi in Whittier. In between, he earned an engineering degree at Montana State University and started training to become a backcountry guide. A couple of years ago, he moved back to Alaska to do the “real job” thing with a gas utility in Anchorage, and continues to chase adventure mountain biking and backcountry skiing in the Chugach Range, often in the company of his adventurous fiancée, Molly Swartz. The first leg of these ski trips is made by snow machine from Turnagain Pass, but more backcountry could be accessible if an approach were made from the eastern Prince William Sound side of the range. This would require putting the snow machine on a boat—a boat with a ramp on the bow. If the boat could tote a snow machine, it could also put an ATV ashore during deer-hunting season, or a crew of friends ashore for a weekend camping trip. With the notion of turning Prince William Sound into his year-round playground, Werth started imaging the perfect multimission boat for that water.

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The man building just such a boat, Delbert Henry, is curiously far away from the ocean in Palmer, Alaska, northeast of Anchorage in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley. A Montana native, Henry founded Hylite Fabrication in 2009 as a welding specialty outfit; in 2011, he engaged in a joint venture to build Peregrine Falcon Alaska , a 90-by-24-foot aluminum landing-craft-style research boat. This high-profile project established Hylite’s fine reputation, and more boatbuilding work came its way. Henry has built a number of 35-foot bow-pickers and also commercial boats with landing-craft bow ramps. New customers liked the look of these boats and commissioned pleasure versions. He’s finished 10 to date, ranging in length from about 34 to 42 feet.

During his time on the Alaskan waterfront, Werth studied a wide variety of boats, cataloging features he might incorporate into a craft of his own one day. A co-worker introduced him to Hylite in 2019. Henry wanted to build a smaller, more affordable version of his landing-craft pleasure models—the last well-equipped 34-foot example cost about $275,000—and proposed to Werth a 27-foot-length-overall build (24-foot hull length) that he could retail for about $160,000.

“This is a real Prince William Sound boat,” Henry says. “It’s designed to be rugged and stable, with an enclosed house and the ramp on the bow. The water there can get choppy, but big waves or swells are unlikely, so we can build it with shallow deadrise for minimal draft. In many places, he can nose this boat right up to shore and drop the ramp on dry land.”

The boat has 12 degrees of transom deadrise and 6-inch reverse chines for enhanced stability. Fuel capacity is 200 gallons, and the boat’s weight distribution is shifted aft so that it will rest on the desired waterline with a heavy load in the open bow. A set of Zipwake 300S interceptor-type trim tabs can bring the bow down if the load is light. The forward deck is 11 feet, 6 inches long and 8 feet, 6 inches wide. The house is 7 feet, 6 inches long by 8 feet, 2 inches wide, with 6 feet, 2 inches of headroom. The helm is to starboard, with a counter and cabinets abaft. To port is a bench seat with a pivoting backrest and a dinette that converts to a berth. Bulky gear is stowed through a deck hatch to the bilge. The entire house is surrounded by windows, making it very bright. The West Coast windshield affords excellent forward visibility and quickly sheds water. The interior is finished with durable speckled Zolatone paint and powder-coated gray.

At the stern is a back porch about 5 feet, 6 inches deep covered by the extended house roof and fitted with a table with a folding top. With a portable stove on the table, this is the galley. A ladder to port provides access to the house roof, which is surrounded by a low rail, rod holders, tie-downs for an inflatable dinghy, and a low radar arch.

The ramp raises and lowers with cables connected to a -hand-crank winch. An extended anchor roller is welded to the starboard gunwale. Decking throughout is aluminum diamond plate. Werth chose not to spec a head or a formal galley to save space and expenses, and  keep the boat simple to maintain. When guests are along, everyone usually camps on shore.

Wango Bango is built like a workboat. The bottom is ¼-inch-thick-plate 5086 alloy. Hullsides are 3/16-inch stock, and the house is 1/8 inch. The transom is solid ½-inch aluminum and can accommodate single or twin outboards. Cross members and stringers are aluminum extrusions. Henry normally builds this type of boat with a forward crash bulkhead and sealed forward compartments; if a sharp impact ruptures the hull, the boat will remain afloat. Werth had a hatch placed in the center of the forward deck, so it’s sealed well but not airtight. Turns out, he’s never used that compartment for stowage and now would prefer a fish box in the deck. The foredeck drains overboard through side scuppers.

In the Hylite shop, this boat’s project name was 401K because Werth’s retirement fund paid for much of it. At 31, he has plenty of time to start over. But his budget was tight. To that end, the boat is powered by a 2007 Suzuki DF250 outboard, which provides adequate power and was reliable during the boat’s first season in 2021. Werth stores the boat on a $6,500 custom Hi-Tech Marine trailer shipped up from Panama City, Florida.

A Glacial Place

A day on the water aboard Wango Bango was the highlight of our family trip to Alaska last summer. Werth and Swartz picked us up at the Whittier dock, and we motored out of the inlet and headed north into the open water of Port Wells. Our first stop was the marker for shrimp pots that Werth and Swartz had dropped the night before. Werth deployed a portable electric winch to the port gunwale to pull up the pots, which were 600 feet down. The pots were filled with shrimp as big as my hand. Next, we navigated into Barry Arm, where we began to encounter the growlers, a raft of dozens of sea otters, and the sleeping seals. Werth approached to within a half-mile of Coxe Glacier and killed the engine.

“We’ll watch for a bit and see if anything happens,” he said.

We could hear the glacier occasionally crack and groan, and suddenly kaboom ! The glacier calved right before our eyes, a huge piece falling into the water just like on NatGeo. We’d only waited for five minutes.

“Right on time,” Werth said. What a great guide. He put us ashore to explore around the rubble at the base of the receding glacier, and we could scramble right to the edge of the ice. A Coleman stove on the aft table boiled up the fresh shrimp for lunch, after which we picked our way back through the growlers, into Port Wells and the waypoint Werth had marked the day before when a pair of 85-pound halibut were hauled aboard Wango Bango . Our luck, unfortunately, was not as good.

I was allowed to take the wheel on the run back to Whittier. The ride was stiff into a crisp afternoon chop, the compromise for shallow draft and stability. But the boat runs true on course and is plenty agile. Back at Whittier, our adventure was over. But it seems clear for Werth and Swartz, who will be married this summer, that the adventure is just beginning.

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All About Prince William Sound

The northernmost reach of the Gulf of Alaska, Prince William Sound is surrounded by steep snowcapped mountains of the Chugach National Forest and deep fjords still holding blue glacial ice. The land around the sound is mostly wilderness, save for the fishing village of Cordova to the east, the oil port of Valdez to the north, and the historic port town of Whittier to the west. The area has survived the 1964 Good Friday earthquake and resulting tsunami, and the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, which fouled the water and shoreline with crude and devastated wildlife. Whittier, a popular put-in point for boaters from Anchorage, is accessible by a one-lane toll road through a railroad tunnel.

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Our custom fishing boats, Savvy and Serendipity , are purpose built to our specifications by Alaskan Aluminum Power Catamarans here in Alaska. These twin hydrofoil assist, all aluminum, catamarans are 36 feet long and 14’ 8” wide, and each have 600 horsepower to cruise at 35MPH! They are perfect for our waters, offering a stable and comfortable ride as we travel the short distance to wherever we decide to target various fish species each day. They feature a hydraulic drop bow ramp so our guests can simply step on and step off each boat from our shale beaches; no ladders to climb or docks to scramble over, just walk right into the boat . Easily and safely walk around the whole boat, the level deck and wide walk ways make the entire vessel accessible while fishing, sightseeing, and enjoying the day on the water. Each has a fully enclosed and heated cabin with plenty of seating and visibility, and a huge private bathroom complete with hot running fresh water.

Savvy and Serendipity , as comfortable as they are, were specifically designed to be fish hunters , and come with the latest in navigational and fish finding electronics, including a 3D bathymetric recorder that we use to map every detail on the sea floor, developing personal charts that show structure that was before unmarked on standard GPS systems. Each boat is outfitted with quality stand up, spinning, trolling/mooching, and fly fishing gear from Accurate, Scotty, Penn, TFO, Lamiglass, Seeker, G. Loomis, Sage, Ross, Scott, and Daiwa electric halibut reels. All terminal tackle is also provided; all you need is a fishing license.

We only take up to six passengers per boat, optimizing the space on each vessel and helping to focus specifically on each of our guests interests, each day. Savvy and Serendipity are a cumulation of years of planning, personal experience, and today’s latest in technology. We invite you onboard.

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