Lantana Boatyard ~ Shipbuilding History

Lantana Boatyard

Lantana FL

Most recent update: July 24, 2017.

Lantana Boatyard was started by Elliott R. Donnelley in 1965. Burger bought the yard in 1987, with the intention of moving their whole operation to Lantana from Manitowoc, but only built two boats there before closing it. Bender Shipbuilding then bought it to obtain Lantana's designs and the facility was sold for conversion to condos. The yard was at 808 N. Dixie Highway, occupying essentially the whole of the area now taken up by the buildings on the north side of Moorings Drive. See the site from the air on Google here. There are a lot of gaps in this table because so many of Lantana's boats went overseas.

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	O/N	Name	Customer	Type	GT	LOA	Built	Notes
	533022	Sea Ho II	Irene H. Perlman	yacht	86	68	1968	later Liberty Belle
	517987	Calypso		yacht	64	72	1969	later Hathor, Madeline, Islander
	523816	Nordic Star	George T. Pfleger	yacht	190	92	1969
		Tom Kat	Martin Tiernan	fishing boat		72	1970	later Anacay (Cayman I.)
				fishing boat		68	1970	later Wonder (Panama)
	530826	Bill Angus	V-Brothers LLC	fishing boat	131	71	1970	later Michael & Colin, Caroline M
	532569	The Squire		fishing boat	131	71	1971	later Seneca
10	534777	Shawn		fishing boat	131	71	1971	later Billy D, Wayward Wind, Alaskan Dream
				research		103	1971
16	538444	Sea Mist III	New Helen S Inc	passenger	71	62	1972
	544467	Annapolitan II	Ches. Marine Tours	passenger	85	65	1972
	597686	Shylock	Hunter R. Mikuletzky	fishing boat	13	33	1974	later Abimal
		Peconic Queen III	Les Behan	passenger	164	95	1975	later Aran Seabird (Ireland), Seabird (Netherlands)
30	565335	Stenella	Wild Dolphin Project	passenger	107	63	1975
43	580065	Layton I	Ray Qualmann Marine	tugboat	11	26	1976
49	583435	Ranger V	Cape Ann Whale Watch	passenger	99	109	1977	later Hurricane II
		Big Flamingo		fishing boat		100	1977
		Bo Ann II		fishing boat		62	1977	catamaran hulls subcontracted
56	594237	Krystal Sea	Arndt Brothers	landing craft tanker	193	121	1978	later Arctic Seal
100	624200	Mr. Mac	M Operating Co.	tugboat	33	51	1980	NLD
	M-161	INS Shimrit	Israel	patrol craft		106	1982	subcontract from Grumman
	FNH-104	Tegucigalpa	Honduras	patrol craft	94d	106	1983
	P-8	Paul Bogle	Jamaica	patrol craft	94d	106	1984
	PB-1	Tyrrell Bay	Grenada	patrol craft	94d	106	1985
	FNH-105	Copan	Honduras	patrol craft	94d	106	1986
	PBR-1		Honduras	patrol craft	8d	36	1986
	PBR-2		Honduras	patrol craft	8d	36	1986
	PBR-3		Honduras	patrol craft	8d	36	1986
	PBR-4		Honduras	patrol craft	8d	36	1986
	PBR-5		Honduras	patrol craft	8d	36	1986
	PBR-6		Honduras	patrol craft	8d	36	1986
	PBR-7		Honduras	patrol craft	8d	36	1986
	PBR-8		Honduras	patrol craft	8d	36	1986
	POF-1		El Salvador	patrol craft	8d	40	1987
	POF-2		El Salvador	patrol craft	8d	40	1987
	POF-3		El Salvador	patrol craft	8d	40	1987
	POF-4		El Salvador	patrol craft	8d	40	1987
	POF-5		El Salvador	patrol craft	8d	40	1987
	POF-6		El Salvador	patrol craft	8d	40	1987
	P-37	Isla de Bioko	Equatorial Guinea	patrol craft	33d	68	1987
	FNH-1491	Punta Caxinas	Honduras	landing craft	625d	149	1988
1000	953840	Think B.I.G.	Think Big boat	yacht	159	85	1989	built by Burger, Casablanca
1001	964840	Elizabeth H	John R. Patnovic	yacht	144	79	1990	built by Burger