Skene Boats was a Canadian boat builder based in

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, now part of the city of

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. The company specialized in the manufacture of

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s. It was founded in 1968 and went out business in 1992.

History

Hovey Industries Inc 2793 Fenton Road Gloucester Ontario Canada 6959

The company was founded by Donald Skene in 1968. Two years later, in 1970, he sold the company to F. Wallis White and George Carlyle. They sold the company to Carl Strike and his partners in 1979 and the company closed in 1992. The business was located in a small industrial park at 2793 Fenton Road. The company produced four different designs of small sailing dinghies, including the

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catamaran, Albacore one design racer and the

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. The George Hinterhoeller-designed

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was produced as both a

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boat and a

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.Sherwood, Richard M.: ''A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America, Second Edition'', pages 14-15. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994.

History

Boats

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