Harkers Island Boatworks

[SCHOONER SARA]

Does anybody have any information about Harkers Island Boatworks? I think they may have been out of business for some time. We are considering purchasing a 58' Gilliken design charter vessel constructed by Harkers Isl. Boatworks in 1961, Honduras Mahogony plank on Long Leaf Yellow Pine and Monel fastened.

[Steve Paskey]

Don't know about Harkers Island Boatworks, but there are still members of the Gillikin family building boats in that area:

Gillikin Custom Boats
201 Fulford Dr # A
Harkers Island, NC 28531-9545
Phone:* (252) 728-7006

Gillikin Marine Railways
195 Morgan St
Morehead City, NC 28557
Phone:* (252) 726-7284

Bryan Blake at Blake Boatworks may know something -- his shop is three miles north of Harkers Island:

Blake Boatworks
P.O. Box 91
Gloucester, North Carolina
(252) 729-8021

And for a story about two young people who bought a old Gillikin-built boat, see:

www.adventuregrrl.com/Dream/faq.htm (http://www.adventuregrrl.com/Dream/faq.htm)

[ 02-06-2004, 09:09 PM: Message edited by: Steve Paskey ]

[On Vacation]

What do you need to know? The one with the Beaufort address is not the same fellow that built that boat. He handles all of the shrimp boats and working railway now. Vance was the father that built that one. James, son, is still building strip and cold mould. Ricky is doing high end work in sportfishermen finished to yacht specs.