WorkBoat has named its 10 Significant Boats of 2016. This year’s list includes two fireboats, a wind farm vessel, patrol boat, towboat, tug, passenger vessel, pilot boat, articulated tug-barge, and an offshore service vessel.

Four of the vessels were built at West Coast shipyards, three at East Coast yards, and three at Gulf of Mexico yards. The 10 boats will be recognized at an awards breakfast at the International WorkBoat Show on Thursday, Dec. 1. The breakfast will culminate with the selection of the Boat of the Year.

Here are the 10 winners, in alphabetical order:

Atlantic Pioneer (Wind Farm Vessel — pictured above )

Owner: Atlantic Wind Transfers

Builder: Blount Boats

Designer: South Boats IOW

 

The Coastal Interceptor

Coastal Interceptor

Coastal Interceptor Vessel (Patrol Boat)

Owner: U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Builder: Safe Boats International

Designer: Safe Boats International

 

 

The towboat Dan Reeves

Dan Reeves

Dan Reeves (Towboat)

Owner: Corps of Engineers

Builder: Horizon Shipbuilding

Designer: Army Corps of Engineers Marine Design Center

 

 

The Donna J Bouchard

Donna J Bouchard and B. No. 272

Donna J. Bouchard/B. No. 272 and Kim M. Bouchard/B No. 270 (Articulated Tug-Barge)

Owner: Bouchard Transportation Co. Inc.

Builder: VT Halter Marine

Designer: Guarino & Cox

 

The Elizabeth Anne

Elizabeth Anne

 

Elizabeth Anne (Tug)

Owner: Vane Brothers Co.

Builder: St. Johns Ship Building

Designer: Entech Designs LLC

 

 

 

 

 

San Francisco Fireboat 3

San Francisco Fireboat 3

Fireboat 3 (Fireboat)

Owner: San Francisco Fire Department

Builder: Vigor Industrial

Designer: Jensen Maritime

 

 

La Espada

La Espada

La Espada (Passenger Vessel)

Owner: Harbor Breeze Cruises

Builder: All American Marine

Designer: Teknicraft Design

 

 

The Manatee

Manatee

Manatee (Pilot Boat)

Owner: Tampa Bay Pilots Association

Builder: Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding

Designer: C. Raymond Hunt Associates

 

 

The Protector

Protector

Protector (Fireboat)

Owner: Port of Long Beach

Builder: Foss Seattle Shipyard

Designer: Robert Allan Ltd.

 

 

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Seacor Olmeca

Seacor Olmeca (Offshore Service Vessel)

Owner: Seacor Offshore LLC

Builder: Master Boat Builders

Designer: Master Boat Builders

 

David Krapf has been editor of WorkBoat, the nation’s leading trade magazine for the inland and coastal waterways industry, since 1999. He is responsible for overseeing the editorial direction of the publication. Krapf has been in the publishing industry since 1987, beginning as a reporter and editor with daily and weekly newspapers in the Houston area. He also was the editor of a transportation industry daily in New Orleans before joining WorkBoat as a contributing editor in 1992. He has been covering the transportation industry since 1989, and has a degree in business administration from the State University of New York at Oswego, and also studied journalism at the University of Houston.