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In early March, Breaux's Bay Craft, Loreauville, La., delivered the 90′×23′×12′4″ aluminum pilot boat Spindle-top to the Sabine Pilots, Port Arthur, Texas. The pilots serve the Texas ports of Orange, Port Arthur and Beaumont. "This is the biggest all-aluminum pilot boat built in the U.S.," said Roy Breaux, the shipyard's owner. "There are bigger ones in other parts of the world, but this is the largest in the U.S." Breaux's Bay Craft has specialized in the construction of aluminum offshore crewboats for decades. However, the shrinking oil and gas industry in the Gulf of Mexico and the pandemic have forced the shipyard to further diversify. "We have produced hundreds of pilot vessels in the past, but we delivered our first pilot boat with the New Generation Deep-V bottom to the Tampa Bay Pilots Association, a 54-footer, in November 2019," said Breaux. "This same bottom was used on the Spindletop." |