Fluid Marine is a commercial rigid inflatable boat building company proudly based in North America. With decades of experience in manufacturing and engineering, our expert teams conceive, build and sell premium large RIBs for law enforcement, commercial, and military use.
This staff expertise is borne of years spent on the water in professional law-enforcement, search and rescue and maritime security and commercial work at the local, state and federal levels. This real-world experience provides us with a unique understanding of the needs of those who serve on the water, and gives us direct knowledge of what our customers need and want.
Our headquarters and manufacturing facility are located in Franklinton, North Carolina, with a focus exclusively on providing high-performing Rigid Inflatable Boats (RIBs) for municipalities and commercial use. Previously headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Fluid Marine concentrates its work in these specific areas to provide genuinely exceptional specialized service.
Fluid Marine boats use high-strength Marine hulls, military-grade removable ORCA Hypalon tubes, and U.S. manufactured EPA/ABYC/USCG compliant components and structures. The result: reliable and safe RIBs that meet and exceed the demands of the North American marine market.
At Fluid Marine, we continuously work on improving our service so that we can find the best solution and be a reliable partner for all your boating needs.
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Unlike many of our competitors, Fluid builds production boats. This means our boats are all the same, with the same equipment, as opposed to custom boats built by competition. This offers you several key advantages:
Our stock boats are built fast, so customers don’t need to wait 18-24 months to get their boat. Quotes for boats are sent out the same day instead of weeks later.
We stock production boats, making them available fast, sometimes in as little as two days.
Our production model boats are the same across the fleet so boats can be shared during emergencies such as hurricanes or floods.
Our exceptionally efficient production boat model is why our boats are high in quality, high in value and designed for fast delivery and easy customization. We’re confident that in any head-to-head matchup, Fluid Marine will be your choice.
Where you work, every day is a test. Our commitment is to pass that test without fail, every time you leave the dock.
Every Fluid Marine boat’s hull, deck, and structural grid are constructed through the process of resin infusion. Infusion is a method of filling catalyzed resin into an air-free, dry, porous material. Once the materials are positioned in the mold, a powerful vacuum draws in the catalyzed resin through a series of tubes. This high-quality method of construction produces a unified, reinforced, rigid composite.
This reproducible method provides dimensional control, regularity of weight, ensures a low-resin high fiber content, produces the optimum strength to weight ratio, and allows controlled placement of fiber direction yielding the same result time and time again.
This process is more precise as compared to traditional hand lay-up processes due to the ability to control the amount of resin infused as well as the position of the dry cloth. The weight variation is minimal (roughly 1% to 2%), a performance which is impossible to achieve with hand lamination.
The combination of unidirectional E-glass, synthetic structural foam coring, and epoxy modified vinyl ester resin produces the strongest and most impact resistant laminate in the marine industry.
What does all this attention to detail mean to you? Simple. You have utmost confidence in your partner, every mission, every day.
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At Fluid Marine, we fuse the cutting-edge design, technology, and precision engineering of military aeronautics with the very finest marine craftsmanship. We are confident in the quality of our products.
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