How to qualify
Choosing WorkBoat’s 10 Significant Boats of the Year is subjective, with many vessels deserving of making the list. Here’s how to qualify:
- We often choose boats with innovative designs, but it is not a requirement. A boat recognized as “Significant” can be a first of its kind, a new wrinkle on a proven design, a successful series build, a proven design that has an unusual mission or operates in unusual places, or helps advance new workboat frontiers.
- Only boats that have been delivered qualify. Additional qualifications include an appearance in WorkBoat magazine during the 12-month qualification period. (It’s not when the boat was actually delivered, but when it appeared in the magazine.) The boat has to have appeared as a full item in our boatbuilding section (On the Ways) or be the focus of one of our Boats & Gear or other features. The story or item must have a list of specifications and include the owner/operator, builder, and designer. We also prefer to have quotes from at least one of the major participants in the project.
Here are a few other points that will improve your chances of being selected:
- Being “considered” is not the same as being “chosen,” but you can’t be chosen if you’re not first considered. Thus, your boat must appear in the magazine.
- Photos — the more, the merrier. There is no guarantee we will use them all. But the more photos that our art director has to choose from, the better the presentation of the boat will be in the magazine.
Our 10 Significant Boats are typically announced in the Fall. The Boat of the Year is selected by the editors of WorkBoat magazine from one of the 10 Significant Boats and announced at the International WorkBoat Show in New Orleans.
Questions? Reach out directly to WorkBoat’s Executive Editor, Eric Haun, at [email protected]
The Significant Boats Awards are Presented by:
