Nickels Boat Works Information

Nickels Boat Works, Inc. was incorporated in 1983 as the primer Lightning sailboat manufacturer. Today, Nickels Boat Works is a world-renowned builder of one-design sailboats, duck boats, and other fiberglass products. Nickels builds several classes of one-design sailboats. These include the 19' Lightning, 18' Buccaneer, 16' Rebel, 15' Mutineer and the 15' JY15. In addition to sailboats, Nickels also designs and builds layout duck hunting boats (http://www.tdbco.com/), custom galvanized trailers, molds, fixtures, and other fiberglass products. Innovations at Nickels Boat Works have included refinements in hull shape and refined deck layouts (within class specifications), resulting in World, Pan American, and North American victories. In addition to improvements in design, Nickels has continued to make improvements in rigging, mast construction, floatation, rudder design, and construction methods. Nickels has developed the reputation of building high quality products. The dedication to detail that the employees of Nickels show has become the hallmark of Nickels, thus making Nickels one of the premier boat builders in existence today.