Celebrating 40 years in the Boat Hire industry

Chris, Pam and Paul Clark

In terms of quality, our customers appreciate that not only do we have a modern fleet of boats, we also give a friendly personal service that is the hallmark of a family-run business. It also explains why so many of our customers keep coming back to us year after year!

Len and Lou Clark launched the Clark Family into boating when they bought John Hicks Boatyard back in February 1966. The original intention was to take semi-retirement. They started off hiring out punts with the boatyard mainly being filled with private moorings. Within a couple of years Len bought his first wooden cruiser and later went on to build a new wooden cruiser.

Our current proprietor, Chris Clark, started helping his dad out part-time in 1974 and went full-time in 1978 with his first two cruisers.

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