President
Baxter Stanley
Co-founded SPECO in 1974 and has led it as president ever since. Learned diesel work as a deckhand on river tows before there was a shop to run.
Channelview, TX
Marine & Forestry · Repair, Parts & New Units
Family-owned since 1974 and founded by rivermen. Heavy-duty diesel repair, deck equipment, forestry machines, and the parts that keep all of it working — any hour, night or day.
Trusted by fleet operators, shipyards, and terminal crews
Our service boat
The M/V Captain Harry carries our service crew, their tools, and the parts for the job out to vessels working the Houston Ship Channel and the Intracoastal. Named for the founder, Harry Stanley Sr.
Boats we’ve worked on
Fleet landings, docks, and shipyards from the Ship Channel out. If she can’t come to Channelview, we go to her.
What we do
Marine keeps barges, towboats, and equipment running. Forestry services and sells wood chippers, stump grinders, and the machines that work behind them. Both run out of the same building, staffed by the same heavy-duty diesel people. Pick a line below to see scope, turnaround, and what we keep in inventory.
Field service and in-shop rebuilds on main propulsion, auxiliaries, and deck machinery. Our people came off the boats — they know what a delay costs you at the fleet.
Packaged power and pumping units built, serviced, and load-tested for barge, towboat, and equipment duty — including the skids and enclosures they sit in.
Our own line of emergency shutdown valves — stainless or aluminium, four shutdown modes, and a companion fuel shutoff. Built and boxed in Channelview, and priced well under what the same protection usually costs.
Cast aluminum hatch hole covers with a notched inner ring that takes a standard 12-inch fan shroud — push air in, pull fumes out, or run two in tandem. No hose runs, no proprietary blower to buy.
Our forestry division works on the machines that clear land and process wood — wood chippers, stump grinders, and the equipment that runs alongside them. We service what you already own and sell newly manufactured units when it is time to replace it.
Fifty years of knowing which part actually fits — marine and forestry both. We stock the fast movers, source the obsolete ones, and ship the same day when the boat or the chipper is down.
By the numbers
Founded by two rivermen out of Hollywood Marine, and still run by the family that started it. Here’s our story
Our crew
Nobody here is far from the work. Call the shop and you get someone who can answer the question.
Co-founded SPECO in 1974 and has led it as president ever since. Learned diesel work as a deckhand on river tows before there was a shop to run.
Oversees operations across the shop and the parts side, from fleet accounts to what goes out the door. Third generation in the business — Bonnie Boyette is his grandmother.
Runs service scheduling and customer jobs — the person who turns a call about a down boat into a crew and a lead time. Baxter’s little sister, and the namesake of the M/V Bonnie Sue.
Manages field service and shop work, including the after-hours callout rotation.
Get a quote
Send us the boat, the unit, and the symptom. We'll come back with a price, a lead time, and a straight answer about whether it's worth fixing.
Boat down after hours?