Hilmark Boats Inc
Hilmark Boats Inc is proud to offer boats based on the original wooden boats design off the vintage “Tyee Row Boat”, used throughout the 1900’s in Campbell River, BC. Hilmark Boats Inc continues a fine tradition of Wooden Boat Building, featuring reclaimed old growth wood. The original Tyee wooden boats were built by Ned Painter from the 1920’s until 1932 and then again in the 1950’s. Hilmark Boats Inc offers high quality, handcrafted, traditional wooden boats including the Tyee Row Boat, the beautiful Campbell River Classic Row Boat, as well as new traditionally designed wooden lapstrake boats from W. J. Simmons of Duck Trap Woodworking.
Hilford Burton was born in Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada. At 12 years of age his father bought him a boat and said, Fix it and it’s yours to keep. That was the start of a life long passion for wooden boats. Hilmark Boats Inc. is the result of that passion, located on Vancouver Island, Canada. They build 16 different models of boats as well as specializing in researching designs and creating boats that meet their customer’s wishes. They enjoy unlimited natural wood supplies and are committed to traditional , historically accurate methods of construction. Lapstrake or clinker built construction is their specialty.
For more information, please visit http://www.hilmarkboats.com