Max also worked at his father's newly formed company Moody Brothers of Jacksonville in the early 1960s as one of the first tug and barge technicians.

[15][self-published source][16] According to The St. Augustine Record, 600 tons of concrete pipes and storm water boxes were added to an offshore reef in June 2008 "by Max Moody's barge and tug (Dell Marine).

[17] In July 2009 Max's Dell Marine Tug and Barge prepared a decommissioned USCG seagoing buoy tender to become an artificial reef.

The shipyard at Moody Fabrication & Machine, Inc. outfitted the ship and then towed it out to sea where it is now an artificial reef off Naval Station Mayport.

[20] In August 2013 a tugboat called Anger Management of Salonen Marine departed from Max's shipyard to a site 20 nautical miles off Mayport, Florida to establish another artificial reef.