Press Room

Fishing boat skippers spend very long hours at the helm, often in extremely bad weather. Crown Marine Seats, a UK-based supplier of premium boat seating, and Allsalt Maritime have introduced a seating solution to keep skippers safe and comfortable in rough seas. 

A unique combination of a RECARO luxury skipper seat and a Shoxs X8 shock mitigating pedestal from Allsalt results in a seat built for fishermen or anyone who spends long days on the water, complete with sporty, dynamic design, outstanding ergonomics, and the latest marine shock-mitigation technology.  

Shock mitigating seats from Shoxs patrol coasts all over the planet, and keeps men and women in uniform safer and injury-free, including now in Qatar.

The Qatari Coast Guard has acquired ten high speed offshore patrol vessels, a 110 Hercules multi-role patrol craft built by Ares Shipyard in Antalya, Turkey. The vessel, 34 meters in length, is built to travel at high speeds: max speed is 30 knots. The boat is designed for search and rescue, anti-terrorist protection, and coastal surveillance.

Shoxs is pleased to announce the grand opening of a new office in Blandford, UK to offers service and support to customers in the greater Europe area. The 2600 square foot office and warehouse, located in close proximity to the southern coastal regions, will be led by Andrew Hughes, Business Development Manager at Shoxs Europe.

We’re excited to see the Shoxs office open in Europe because it demonstrates our commitment to growth and expansion,” commented Andrew Hughes. “Our mission is to deliver outstanding service, and we believe local support is one of the ways we can continue to provide value to our customers."

SHOXS is pleased to support NEXT GEN 2019, an international maritime industry exchange combining technical presentations with dynamic panel discussions. The sessions bring together an international group of 25 experts armed with the latest knowledge to identify challenges and highlight potential solutions within the worldwide maritime sector. Focused on high-speed professional watercraft in the under-24 metre sector, this unique program of one-day safety workshops is being held at the Grand Harbour Hotel in Southampton on April 2-4, 2019.

NEXT GEN Shock Mitigation Solutions on April 4th focuses on managing the risk of operating planing craft in waves. Extreme applications have driven rapid development and solutions are now becoming available for lower speed vessels. Andy Hughes, Business Development Manager for SHOXS Europe, will present “Vessel Monitoring Systems to Keep Crews Safer.”

Born and raised in Victoria, British Columbia, Brent spent many of his childhood days fishing with friends and family. Angling turned into an obsession during his teens and led to the pursuit of professional guiding, which he continues to do today.

Brent’s charter company, Pacific Pro Charters, explores the waters from Victoria to Port Renfrew in British Columbia, Canada. His 30’ Northwest Aluminum Craft is outfitted with SHOXS suspension seating – a SHOXS 6155 at the helm and dual SHOXS 6300 companion seats on the port side.

Shoxs suspension helm seat mounts helped to get Joe Isley out on the water again after surgery to repair the pain in his back. Every boater knows that time spent exploring the water may come with a price: back pain and injury sustained over years of enduring pounding from wave impact, even in relatively shallow water and smaller, lower profile boats. 

Joe, a flats boat owner and member of the boating industry, knows better than anyone. 

Joe Namath once famously said, "If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?" Safehaven Marine embodies this attitude through their mission to build high-quality patrol boats and consistently push their limits with real-world testing. In 2017, a Safehaven Marine boat set a world record for circumnavigating Ireland. Never one to rest on its laurels, the company is attempting to shatter yet another world record for Transatlantic travel in 2019.

Safehaven plans on attempting to set a new ‘Arctic Circle’ Transatlantic record in 2019 from Canada to Ireland via Greenland and Iceland in ‘Thunder Child II’, a considerably longer voyage than the 2,100 km world record Safehaven set in 2017 in their XSV17. Safehaven Marine chose SHOXS to supply the shock-mitigating seating to ensure crew safety and comfort as they pound through rough sea conditions for the long journey.

SHOXS continues to bring the latest technology in shock mitigation and ultimate boating comfort to not just the commercial and military boaters, but now recreational boaters as well. An article in the October/November issue of International Boating Industry magazine features a shift toward the adoption of marine suspension seating in the recreational boating market. 

A major reason for that is the technology development of more compact and affordable suspension modules that will integrate with existing seats on the market today. SHOXS is at the helm of this trend with the new X-Series pedestal seat bases, developed recently and designed to offer smoother rides in rough water on any boat, with nearly any seat. 

In a strategic partnership between NY-based MetalCraft Marine, and FL-based Brunswick Commercial and Government Products (BCGP), the US Coast Guard received the ninth Long Range Interceptor (LRI II) for their National Security Cutter program. The LRI II, an 11-meter high speed aluminum launch vessel, can travel 236 nautical miles from the 'mother ship' to perform tactical missions such as boarding, threat detection and suppression, and patrol. The cabin can be operated open or closed, depending on the weather and sea state. The boats operate at sea in extreme conditions and the LRI II can be recovered at sea state 5 at up to 12 knots. 

When traveling at speeds up to 35 knots in nearly any sea condition, shock-mitigating seating is crucial for the crew's safety. The helm is equipped with three SHOXS 4800 across the operator station, with pistol grips, armrests, lapbelts, cupholders, and chart pockets. The seats have 8" of fore and aft travel for precise adjustments based on operator comfort. The cabin interior and aft deck have SHOXS 5000 series jockey seating for high density passenger and crew seating.

We are proud to announce that our newest product family, the X Series Shock Mitigating Pedestals, was presented with an Innovation Award at this year’s International Boatbuilder’s Exhibition and Conference (IBEX) on Tuesday, October 2. A panel of eight judges with technical backgrounds in boating selected the product winners among dozens of entries.

The new SHOXS X Series Shock Mitigating Pedestals were developed to bring military technology to the consumer market. The pedestals feature the same air isolator as the ones used in commercial and government watercraft, and packages it into a compact aluminum housing. This allows the recreational boater to refit the pedestal onto an existing boat, or the boat builder to integrate the pedestal onto a production platform.