About Us

Grady-White Boats has a legendary reputation for designing and producing outstanding fiberglass boats with exceptional attention to detail. Since 1959, Grady-White boats have been built in Greenville, NC. Since purchasing the company in 1968, owner and CEO Eddie Smith steadily has done what he does best: inspire his crew to work hard to provide customers the best quality, reliability, safety, performance and long lasting value. In large part Grady-White's success is due to developing close relationships with its customers and dealerships, asking questions of and carefully listening to boat owners, and incorporating features they've requested to create fun products that make many happy memories. The quest for being ''the ultimate in boating satisfaction'' is the basis for the management style promoted by current company president, Kris Carroll. Grady-White welcomes visitors to come and tour their facility so they can see for themselves what makes Grady-White unique--the craftsman who passionately build Grady-White boats to delight their customers. Grady-White has been awarded top rankings in every third party Customer Satisfaction awards ever done in the marine industry, including all consecutive awards from the NMMA since it's inception in 2003 and all of the JD Power Awards for their category. Experience the difference, get the Grady.