About Us

Notes from our owner, Myron "Stoney" Burke.

The origin of our company is in a small commercial salmon fishery on Lummi Island in Washington State. 30 years ago as a reefnet fisherman I wanted a more durable, lighter weight, and more maintenance free work skiff. We needed a stable, stationary work platform to maintain our anchored, floating and underwater cable and rope rigging. We navigated northern Puget Sound waters with the challenges of strong tide flow and changing marine weather conditions. We tended scuba divers as they helped us maintain our apparatus. We hauled our fish to tenders on the water and to buyers on the beach. We moored our skiffs, in all conditions, for ready access to the fishing gear anchored offshore. The obvious choice was to build an aluminum skiff.

There were only a couple aluminum skiffs in the reef net fleet then. I adapted some of the traditional ideas that worked for wood plank and plywood boats for decades in the business. Over the years since emulating the early ideas of others, I designed and experimented to provide the best possible boat for the needs at hand. Today virtually the entire fleet uses my boats. I recognized there was a market for boats of my design in other maritime working situations. We have expanded and supply many different industrial marine companies and individuals. I work to develop good working relationships with our customers so we can build to suit their needs. I use many of these ideas to offer solutions for new customers. Thus our designs evolve and improve as our customer base grows.