Swords Marine Service, LLC, of Gloucester recently expanded. Owner Bob Swords of Ware Neck said his mobile boat repair business recently added sales and service of Tohatsu and Nissan marine outboard motors. He services other brands as well.

In addition, Swords’s son, Bobby, recently joined the business as a full-time technician. Previously, he had helped his father part-time and also had worked four years for a government contractor. A 2001 graduate of Gloucester High School, Bobby resides at Allmondsville and is a lieutenant in Gloucester Volunteer Fire and Rescue.

Swords offers computer diagnosis for most brands of marine engines and has the ability to service customers’ boats on a boatlift by way of a service boat. He said boat repair includes most everything, from fuel injection to electronics, but that he does not offer fiberglass work.

Swords has done boat repair for 40 years, owning his business and previously having worked at a marina in Middlesex C...