Bud’s Boat Rentals, LLC has operated in Venice, Louisiana since its establishment in 1964, offering crew boats, tugboats, barges, and dockside loading services and facilities from a deepwater location on Tiger Pass in the Venice Port Complex. The company has expanded to the Intercoastal Waterway, inside three miles from the Mississippi River Algiers Locks, supporting the marine construction industry with a safe harbor for vessels and quicker response capability for oil industry recovery efforts.
Over the years, Bud’s Boat Rentals has established long-standing relationships with major and independent companies along the Gulf Coast, continuing to grow to meet increasing demand from future exploration, production, and marine construction in the region. Beyond company-owned equipment, the business also brokers other marine equipment as needed.
Bud’s also owns and operates Shipyard Service, LLC, a full-service dry dock facility located in Slip #1 off Tiger Pass in Venice, featuring a 275-ton travelift catering to commercial vessels — tugs, barges, crew boats, and shrimp boats — as well as private fishing vessels.
This is a business-to-business commercial marine vessel rental and shipyard company, not a recreational fishing charter or leisure boat rental service.
For companies needing crew boats, tugboats, barges, or dry dock shipyard services in Venice, Louisiana, Bud’s Boat Rentals offers a long-established operation with more than 60 years in business.
