COMBAT & PATROL CRAFTD D F F ELIVERING ELIVERING LEXIBILITYLEXIBILITY & &C O USTOMIZED UTPUTDiversif cation is the key at Oregon-based North River Boats. Listening closely to the customer’s needs recently won the day on a multi-hull U.S. Navy con-tract, but that’s not all that’s happening in Oregon.By Joseph Keefeoseburg, Oregon-based North River Boats has, can also win the day. Such was the case in North River’s over time, thrived by delivering one of the most recent 5-year Blanket Purchase Agreement award from Rdiverse vessel portfolios in North America. Those the U.S. Navy. offerings include both domestic and foreign deliveries, as According to Mike Blocher, North River Boats’ Direc-well as recreational, commercial and military hulls. And, tor of Sales and Marketing, the ? rm will deliver two Navy if that formula has taught them just one thing, then that hulls this year, one in September and another 4 weeks later metric would be that different customers need different at October. And, he says, they expect to produce two more features. And, for a ? rm known initially for cranking out in 2018 – pending government funding. All told, North a well-known brand of nearly identical recreational craft, River’s contract, signed only in February of 2017, calls for it has also learned that ? exibility in design and offerings options of up to eight hulls.June 2017 MN34