From payphone to shipyard: the Brett Snow story

Snow & Co. founder and president Brett Snow sits in the boiler room of the shipyard's 1942 steam-powered crane. Doug Stewart/WorkBoat photo.

Spend a week moving through the working waterfront in Seattle, and just about everyone has a Brett Snow story. Long before he became president and founder of Snow & Company, Snow had a reputation as a “free-spirit", but across the industry he was widely recognized as an “exceptionally talented boatbuilder with the drive and determination to turn Snow & Co. into what it is today.”

In less than a decade, the 110-employee, family-owned shipyard has grown into a steady producer of government and commercial vessels. Its output includes 24 Navy workboat larges, 23 workboat mediums, along with pilot boats, research vessels, and an eight-boat series of battery-powered electric ship assist tugs currently under construction. The yard’s total hull count now stands at 174 and climbing.

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