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Wilbur Yachts company history timeline

1973

Lee S. Wilbur & Co./Wilbur Yachts was started in 1973 in a one-bay boat shop formerly located on Jim Willis’s property in Seawall.

1976

By 1976 Lee S. Wilbur & Co. had outgrown the old shop and had built a new facility in “downtown” Manset across from then “Smith’s Store”, now “Double J Grocery”. At this juncture Lee and Heidi Wilbur sold “Manset Boat Rentals” and Heidi came to work in the company to manage the bookkeeping.

1979

By 1979 the first Wilbur model, a 38’, designed by Ralph Ellis was introduced.

2001

After thirty years of building Lee S. Wilbur & Co./Wilbur Yachts, Lee Wilbur and Heidi Wilbur Crock sold the business in 2001 to their daughter Ingrid and son-in-law John Kachmar.

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