Bock Marine

Bock Marine Builders, Inc. began in 1975 as Roanoke Island Steel & Boat Works, in the fishing port of Wanchese, North Carolina. The owner, Carl Bock, Jr., had worked in different shipyards in Norfolk, Virginia all his life, and after the death of his wife, Katherine, in 1973, Mr. Bock decided to move to the northern Outer Banks of North Carolina and begin his own steel boat-building business.Although the very first contract he landed was for a 53′ sailboat, his interest was in commercial fishing vessels, and soon after that, a contract for a 90′ clamboat, the “Kristy Lee” for Stanley Smith of Ocean City, Maryland, was signed and the boatyard was on its way.