The facility, which lies on 98 acres on the St. Johns River, is conveniently located near Orlando, Gainesville, St. Augustine and Jacksonville. St. Johns Ship Building specializes in both new construction and repair of a wide variety of commercial steel vessels.

“This is the yard personnel that we built our fleet with from this North Florida area,” Ganoe said. “With our business growing and uncertainty over where we were going to build and service our boats, we invested in this facility.”