Breaking News: Billy Chapman and John Hemken announce the beginning of a joint partnership!

Two pioneers, one dream.

John Hemken of A&M Manufacturing is a visionary, a futurist and a true pioneer in every sense of the word. Given over 25 years of perfecting new and innovative production, John now brings to the market a proprietary fiberglass platform hull design that provides a fuel efficient, fast planing, smooth, stable and quiet ride. Hemken was a recipient in the 2021’s GrowFL awards for leadership in A&M, his boat manufacturing company. John Hemken has the uncanny ability to connect the dots, streamline production and align the best team of boat builders in the industry today. John produces boats from the factory floor to the Marina door, shaving middle costs and passing that savings on to his clients. His production line is efficient, effective and committed to excellence.

Billy Chapman has been a world renown legendary outfitter for over 35 years, very famous world-over for hosting spectacular adventures on expeditions deep into the Amazon jungles and beyond. His lodges throughout Mexico are known for some of the best bass fishing in the world and have garnered Billy a place in the Fisherman’s Hall of Fame. But what makes Billy so successful is his innate ability to host, his hospitality and his 5 star world class service. This along with his unprecedented attention to detail enables him to know just what people want and need to create a customer experience that blows any competition right out of the water. Billy Chapman has been written about in The New York Times, The LA Times, Field and Stream, BassMaster Magazine, Outdoor Life, along with countless others and has been featured on ESPN’s Outdoor Channel. Billy hosts the best and the biggest in the business and creates luxury adventures wherever he goes. He’s supported by sponsors with names such as St. Croix, Mossy Oak, Huk, Berkley, Abu Garcia, Humminbird, Minn Kota and Hobie just to name a few. They aren’t just his sponsors, they’re his clients.

Every boat and every boating experience should be designed by a true outfitter who knows the where, the why and the how tough.

Billy Chapman is leading manufacturing design in Fiberglass Hybrid and Sportsfishing pontoon boats.

StyleCraft boats...the best, most well designed, well built, versatile line of platform boats on the market today and in the foreseeable future.

STYLECRAFT AND A&M MANUFACTURING INTRODUCE FIBERGLASS HULL PONTOON BOATS

Chiefland, Florida  – Billy Chapman and John Hemken announce the beginning of a joint partnership creating the new StyleCraft Boats family of fiberglass hulled pontoon boats, available only through direct factory sales. Chapman, pioneer of peacock bass fishing in the Amazon jungles and creator of the Floating Suite mobile lodge, and Hemken, with over 25 years of perfecting new and innovative production and owner of A&M Manufacturing, are designing several models of pontoon boats all with premium fiberglass hulls for optimum durability and performance.

Flagship of the line is the Fun Slide boat, a 28-foot pontoon craft built on Bulldog hulls with a 10-foot-wide main deck and upper deck featuring two water slides. The 22- and 26-foot Outfitters are recreational tritoons with multiple floor plans for family fun and fishing built on Riptide hulls. Outfitter pontoon boats also feature multiple deck boxes with cushion seats, and much more.

StyleCraft Boats also offers three different kit boats allowing the DIYer the opportunity to finish out the boat to their liking. The Kit Boat includes fiberglass hulls and heavy-duty aluminum C-channel floor beams ready for assembly.

The StyleCraft Boats Tuff Boat is a workboat created for the rigors of heavy-duty operations. A deck boat that can be configured for any task, the Tuff Boat can be outfitted with a crane and anything else a work boat might need. StyleCraft works with the owner to determine the right size pontoon boat for the work at hand.

All StyleCraft Boats are built by A&M Manufacturing and feature a heavy duty set of fiberglass hulls measuring from 30 feet to 53 feet in length. The deck is built with marine grade composite that is fiberglassed, gelled and webbed. No wood is used in StyleCraft Boats. Each boat can be configured with an outboard engine. More models will be introduced.

The Fun Slide boat and Outfitter series are equipped with a Humminbird Helix GPS depthfinder, anodized aluminum railing and phifertex rail coverings, upgraded custom upholstery with hydraulic steering and steering wheel on a fiberglass console.

A&M Manufacturing is the contract manufacturer of Elite Craft leisure boat, hand built from fiberglass but with the regal look of real mahogany wood. Elite Craft boats have been built for over 30 years.

 For more information about StyleCraft Boats go to https://stylecraftboats.com/.