Founded in 1959 as MonArk Boat Company, by Zach McClendon, Sr., Zach McClendon, Jr. and Norris Judkins, SeaArk Marine, Inc. has a long and varied history in the aluminum boat building industry. The company got its start building riveted aluminum flat bottom Jon boats. After a few years and several additions to the product line, they started selling riveted and all-welded boats to entities such as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Law Enforcement Agencies, and Fish and Wildlife Departments. Eventually two divisions were formed - a Recreational Division and a Workboat (Commercial) Division. Both areas grew, as did the product lines.
The pleasure boat division expanded into fiberglass as well as all-welded and riveted boats. The workboat division of the company continued to concentrate on all welded, heavy-duty, aluminum boats and included customers from all over the world. Crew boats for oil field work in the Gulf of Mexico were the primary products during the oil boom days of the seventies, but fire boats, patrol boats, oil spill response boats, and transporters were also being produced.
In 1988 the Brunswick Corporation bought the Recreational Division of MonArk Boat Company and with it the MonArk name. The remaining Commercial sector renamed themselves SeaArk Marine, Inc. and continued to produce all-welded, work, patrol and fire boats up to 65 feet in length as well as excursion and tour boats up to 90 feet in length.
SeaArk Marine's customer base continues to include the Corps of Engineers, Oil Companies, and various Law Enforcement Agencies as well as the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Marine Corps, Survey Companies, and many other Domestic and International Government Agencies.
In 1992, SeaArk Boats, Inc. was formed as a separate company to produce aluminum pleasure boats once again. SeaArk Boats builds all-welded and riveted Jon boats up to 24 feet in length. In fact, the company claims to build the world's largest Jon Boat with a length of 24 feet and a bottom width of 72".
In addition to Jon Boats, SeaArk Boats builds Bass Boats, Crappie Boats, Sport Fishing Boats, Tunnel Hulls, Duck Boats and Jet Boats. Since its conception in 1992, the company has grown and has a large dealer base across the U.S. and in Alaska.
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