History of Clinker Boats	About Wootton Bridge Industries Founded in 1968 to produce innovative marine equipment for the petroleum industry the company manufactured a wide range of specialised craft to its own designs that sold world wide. In 1982 this side of the business was sold and a much smaller enterprise set up to produce a range of pleasure boats with the emphasis on high quality and traditional design in fine timbers.
Launches, Dinghies & Day Boats	From the first we have concentrated upon producing a range of sizes and types that can be manufactured and sold at affordable prices without compromising on either the materials used or the craftsmanship employed. As can be seen from the accompanying photographs and detail specifications our range covers nearly every significant type of craft built in the clinker tradition from eight to twenty five feet.
Custom Boats	The advantages of the northern tradition of clinker ship building, its lightness and great strength allied to its intrinsic beauty of line have made it our favourite method of construction.  Always a family firm the present workforce covers two generations, father, sons, and daughter. We work in a well equipped workshop on the banks of the river Medina in the Isle of Wight. This workshop is large enough to produce in addition to the normal production, replicas of many types of traditional local working boats. Past commissions have included examples from the Baltic to Spain.
Our Builders	To these projects we bring a wealth of experience in the "taking off" of lines from existing boats and then carrying the construction through lofting and detail design to the final craft. For those who require something different but who understandably baulk at the idea of taking on an ageing original with all its problems this can be an ideal answer. In many cases the price of the new craft differs little from that of the original when the inevitable repairs and renovations are taken into account. Michael, Carol, Peter, and Tim

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