100% composite construction
Defiance Boats uses only the finest in composite materials available today to build Defiance Boats. By utilizing a construction method that uses no wood materials you can rest assured that your boat is built to last and the structural components of the boat will never rot or fail. With Wood constructed stringers and transoms like many of our competitors use, structural failure is just one screw away. Many of these builders will tell you that they encapsulate the wood well enough that the wood never comes in contact with water and therefore will never rot. This is a very optimistic approach. Failures in wood stringers and wood floors do happen. Thousands of people have had to replace a soft floor, or replace the stringers in a boat that is often less than 10 years old. Why take the risk. Buy a boat that can’t rot, and that you don’t have to worry every time you install a new option on your boat whether every screw was installed and sealed perfectly. You shouldn’t have to worry about whether the materials in your boat will fail, you just need to worry about where your going fishing next. Don’t make a mistake and buy a boat made from Less Expensive wood materials just to save a few dollars. Buy the finest from the beginning and rest at ease.
Lifetime Limited Structural Hull Warranty
Because we at Defiance Boats use only the finest composite materials available today, we offer one of the most aggressive warranties on the market today. Where most of our competitors try to get away with the shortest warranty that they can get away with, Defiance Boats opted to offer one of the finest warranties in the marine industry. Many have told us that the “Other” company, does not have any structural failures and that the warranty is of little use. I would ask, if they never have a failure than why won’t they offer a lifetime warranty? If they never fail, and the wood that they use will never rot, than offering a lifetime warranty will not cost a thing. We have complete faith in our product and construction processes. Don’t buy into the “Wood is Good” sales pitch. Ask them for a lifetime structural warranty on their wood constructed boat, and see how they respond.
Engineering advantage
At Defiance boats all of our new boats are designed using the finest in computer design technology. By utilizing the latest in CAD/CAM design and modeling we can design boats that are more efficient, better riding and built stronger structurally by designing our laminate structures and other structural components of the boat before the first boat ever leaves the assembly line. Gone our the days where a boat builder designs a boat and crosses their fingers as they test it for the first time. Gone are the days where a boat builder hopes that they layed up the fiberglass thick enough to last a lifetime. Most of our competitors operate in this manner, but at Defiance Boats we don’t have to wonder whether your boat was built strong enough, we know before we ever build the first boat.
Shipping advantage
Often we are asked, “If your boats are more expensive to build than your competitors, how can you sell them at such an affordable price?” This is a very good question. The composite transom material that we use in our boats is very expensive. A sheet of marine grade plywood retails for about $65 while a sheet of Coosa Composite Fiberglass Reinforced transom board sells for about $350 per sheet. Our boats are much more expensive to build than our competitors, but we make up for this construction expense by utilizing our Factories that are located on each coast to minimize shipping cost. Shipping a 22’ boat from the East Coast to the West Coast for example costs $4,000-$5,000 per boat. This is a huge expense, and by building our boats in our Washington State factory to supply the West Coast, and in our Florida Factory to supply the East Coast. We strive to be as efficient as possible in all of our construction and shipping processes to keep our prices down for our customers. But we never cut corners with materials or build quality to reduce costs. We only use the finest products to build our boats, and will never stray from this core principle.
Finest outboard powered pilothouse fishing boat on the market
Our Sister Company. Defiance Boats was created in 2002 with the sole purpose of building the finest outboard powered pilothouse fishing boat on the market. Although Defiance has not been around for 30 years, our Sister company Shamrock has been. Actually it has been around for over 35 years. Shamrock Boats have built a reputation as one of the finest boats available today. Defiance Boats are built right along side their Shamrock counterparts. They run down the assembly line right next to each other, and most of the materials are shared between the two companies. We are also able to buy materials better by utilizing the purchasing power of both companies to keep costs down and allow us to maintain our competitive pricing. When you buy a new boat from Shamrock or Defiance Boats, you can rest assured knowing that your vessel was constructed by the finest craftsmen available using only the finest composite materials available today.
