Universal Marine was an American boat builder based in Saint Petersburg, Florida.
The company specialized in the design and manufacture of fiberglass sailboats.
[1][3][4] The company was founded as a marina management business and later expanded into boat design and building as a side-business.
In a 2010 review, Steve Henkel wrote about Helsen's Montego 25 design, "this one may have been his best effort ... properly sailed will give good performance on the race course ... We used to race against a Montego 25 in our Morgan 24/25 ... and although we won the season trophy once or twice based on the average of our scores, we were never able to beat the Montego, either boat for boat or on corrected time.
She is fast, we observed, both light and heavy air ...."[1][2][7] Boat production ended in 1985 and the company is now listed as "inactive".