Pacific Fishermen Shipyard

Pacific Fishermen Shipyard was founded in 1946 by 400 Norwegian heritage fishermen as a co-op style shipyard, on the site of the 1890s Ballard Marine Railway Co. The yard built wooden launches and seiners and, in the 1960s, a series of 86’ Ben Jensen designed steel crab vessels with Flohr Metal Fabrication, followed by 92’ whaleback designs.

In 1985 it acquired the assets of Rowe Machine Works, including deck machinery plans and patterns, the adjacent machine shop and the lift dock. In 2003 it bought the assets of Lunde Electric Company’s marine electrical division, which became PFI Marine Electric, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pacific Fishermen, Inc. The yard received the 2019 Port of Seattle Environmental Excellence Award; its measures include a 7.9 kW solar photovoltaic array.