Since they were boys, Sam and Oliver Moore have been into making things. “We built a cradle on rollers to hoist mom’s lobster boat up onto the shore,” says Oliver, about one of their many projects as kids. “There was a lot of problem solving like that,” he continues.
The brothers grew up on Ram Island located within Sippican Harbor in Marion, Massachusetts. One of their earliest memories is building styrofoam rafts to cross the bay.
They were also surrounded by friends and family members that were boat builders and entrepreneurs. Their uncle, Stephen Clark, was co-owner of Vanguard Sailboats and made it into one of the most preeminent boat building companies in the world. He was also the owner of the famous Red Herring, one of the first canting keel monohauls. Their grandfather built c-class catamarans and owned a marine company of his own.
The brothers started spending their summers building boats and naturally, they got into racing. “We started racing faster and more custom built boats,” says Oliver. “And we were breaking them more and more and had to fix them,” Sam adds.
Oliver working in the original home for Moore Bros Co., which was their garage.
Oliver went on to study physics at Williams College. Sam would go on to study at the University of Vermont. When Oliver graduated he went to work for a composite company and ended up running a Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machine. Sam went to work in habitat restoration in South Georgia.
They soon realized that they wanted to work for themselves and Oliver found a house to rent with a large garage, “and that’s when it all started,” says Sam.
Their original idea was to build skis. Oliver felt that the CNC machine had a much larger role to play in the whole manufacturing process. He noticed that “it was a totally underutilized tool,” and wanted to change that.
Within hours of buying a CNC machine, they already had jobs booked, although none of those jobs involved skis. “We got very distracted very quickly by other people paying us to do other stuff,” says Oliver.
By 2017 they had moved out of the garage and into a building that was dedicated solely to composite work.
From there, they went on to get projects for boats like Topaz, Bellamente, and Oracle. Jeff Kent of Composite Solutions Inc. had taken a shine to the brothers and wanted to sell his company to them. Jeff had an impeccable reputation and was known as one of the best in the composite industry. This led to the Moore brother inheriting an incredible client list.
And they did not disappoint those clients. In fact, they exceeded expectations at times.
Since then, they have taken on clients like America’s Cup American Magic and aerospace projects that they can’t even talk about due to NDAs.
One aerospace project that they can talk about, however, is REGENT, a company that hopes to revolutionize transport between coastal cities with a seaglider that will fly a few meters off the water and travel at high speeds.
Moore Brother Co. has already created the prototype and it has successfully completed sea trials. If it continues to go well, the actual seaglider will be built in the next couple of years.
As the client list keeps growing, so does the need for the Moore Brother Co. to follow suit. What Sam and Oliver want to continue to create at Moore Brothers Co. is a culture of innovation and collaboration. “There's always a collaboration between every level of the shop to make sure that the experience and knowledge from every level gets brought into the project,” says Sam. “We're open to innovating different techniques that will allow us to either make a nicer product even nicer, or to come up with budget solutions to get most of the way to what the ideal product would be.” He continues.
“We take great pride in delivering the highest quality products and using the integration of traditional craftsman mindset with modern CNC driven technology,” says Oliver.
Most importantly, both Sam and Oliver consider everyone that works with them as family. There is always time in the day to ask how someone is doing and if something is happening at home, then work can wait.
For anyone interested in working with Sam, Oliver and the rest of the team, send an email to office@moorebro.co.
