Riddle Marine is a locally owned business located at the mouth of the Hells Canyon in Lewiston, Idaho. Riddle Marine provides the highest quality and performance in their custom aluminum welded jet boats. Riddle Marine jet boats have been featured all over the globe; from the River Thames in James Bond's "The World is Not Enough" to the Twenty Mile River in Alaska. Riddle Marine was created for th
e need of a powerful craft that could manuever the extreme shallows and wild rapids of the Snake and Clearwater Rivers. The first time Norm Riddle laid his eyes on the Snake River, his awe was shared with his son, Doug. In the early 1960's, Norm Riddle built his first aluminum jet boat for the log drive for Potlatch Forest Products. After building boats for various companies around the Lewis-Clark Valley, Norm decided that there was potential to make a business out of it. Large corporations and federal agencies were his only customers, however, in the late 1960's an interest in a boat for recreations purposes was budding. Norm built the company from the ground up with the help of his son, Doug. In 1978, Doug took over the company, while his father continued his Hell's Canyon guide service with Snake River Outfitters. Since then, Doug has been redesigning and modernizing jet boats to suit the ever changing rivers and customers.
