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.
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 Gemini 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 prices tend to be lower than our competition thanks in part to to our highly efficient production boat model. We’re confident that in any head-to-head matchup, Fluid 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.
Carl Herndon - President, Fluid Marine
As President of Fluid Marine, Carl Herndon leads all aspects of Brig USA’s recreational Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat (RHIB) division as well as Fluid Marine’s Patrol, Search and Rescue (SAR) and Swift Water Rescue (SWR) boat sales and production.
An industry veteran with 30 years of experience, Carl is best known for designing and manufacturing semi-custom production boats. He has founded multiple successful businesses in various industries including boat manufacturing and boat dealerships. And he was a major contributing factor in the success of several well-know boating manufacturers, including Jupiter Marine International, Blackfin Yacht and Streamline R.
Carl’s priorities are clear and completely focused on our customers. He’s determined to make sure our police and firefighters are safe on the water, while they serve their communities. As such, he’s determined that Fluid must and will continue to focus on the performance and quality of our boats, making sure our production vessels are built to a higher standard and are designed to meet the needs of both the recreational and commercial markets.Carl can be reached via the Fluid Marine website, www.fluidboats.com, at 919-616-1988, or at carl@fluidboats.com
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Blake Young - Government Sales Manager
U.S. Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions
Blake Young brings more than 15 years of criminal justice experience in public safety (10 of them in law enforcement) to our Fluid team. He realized he could continue serving the professional law enforcement community by joining Fluid Watercraft and use his considerable skills and credentials to help customers at state, local, and federal maritime security agencies improve and cultivate their maritime security fleets.
Blake’s professional insights and experience with Fluid Watercraft’s innovative patrol and search and rescue rigid hull, inflatable boats, offers law enforcement agencies access to cutting-edge technology and equipment specifically designed to support law enforcement and first responders’ entire spectrum of mission possibilities.
His mission with us? Blake is responsible for Fluid Watercraft’s U.S. Northeast and Mid-Atlantic sales region that covers the state of Maine all the way down to Georgia. He can be reached via the Fluid Watercraft website, at 919-302-1041, or at Blake@FluidBoats.com.
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Troy Vezina - Florida Sales
As a former Florida Marine Patrol Officer with 30+ years of experience, Troy has a unique understanding of the needs of those who serve on the water. Troy’s extensive experience with Aventura and Miami-Dade County includes supporting narcotics and immigration engagements in partnership with US Customs and Border Patrol, USCG, DEA, and Homeland Security. He developed and continues to teach the only Vessel Identification course in FL, and trains new maritime patrol officers in Basic/Intermediate/Advanced Boat Handling, Forfeiture and Seizure, Marine homicide and site reconstruction, and tactical and advanced boat patrolling.
Troy holds USCG/National Association of State Boating Law Administrators certifications in Tactical Boat Operations, Crewing, Urban Search and Rescue, is an EMT and instructs with Tactical Advantage Consultants (TAC) for air boat and RIB training.
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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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