Making Some Of The Best Custom Boats In Canada, Eric Duncan And Team Have Proven They Have A Business Legacy Worth Honouring
Lifetimer has digitized all of their boat components, cutting everything on their in-house 6’ x 16’ plasma table, allowing them to put the highest quality boats on the water
DUNCAN – You have to be doing something right to stay in business for forty years. It takes a certain level of professional perseverance, customer care and of course, a product people love and want, to build that kind of legacy. Lifetimer Boats has those ingredients.
Founded in 1980 by Eric Duncan and Geoff Howard, Lifetimer was the result of two friends spending their youth on Vancouver Island, fishing, working and playing around boats. Together, they noticed something that would steer their future careers.
“We found that nobody was building the type of boats we’d like to own, that would stand up to the multitude of fishing trips, water sports and rough water adventuring boat enthusiasts like ourselves would put a boat through,” explains Eric.
“We decided to make that kind of boat.”
Eric Duncan and co-founder Geoff Howard created a proven sea keeping hull design for their built-to-order, custom boats, created to handle near anything nature can throw its way
It was a simple realization that birthed a business that was built to last. Today, Eric is the sole owner of Lifetimer Boats after Geoff’s retirement in 2000. Located in Duncan, Lifetimer offers extremely durable, competitively priced, custom-built 14’ to 34.5’ crew and recreational boats. They’ve also expanded to create a line of aluminum tool boxes, headache racks, pickup truck fuel tanks, truck and vehicle accessories, fabricating aluminum equipment for the aquaculture industry and general custom fabrication.
They’re quite busy.
Eric’s business has adapted and grown over decades, something he feels makes Lifetimer Boats a special part of Duncan, North America and the rest of the world beyond.
Indeed, with over 4,000 boats in service, Lifetimer Boats can be found in waters across the globe. It’s a truly international business with a talented, knowledgeable staff, that still maintains a local feel for those that enter its doors.
“We have a team of twelve designers, draftsmen, welders, fabricators, fitters, mechanics, and office and sales staff who provide the best service to our customers,” notes Eric. “Our great team of employees have helped build Lifetimer’s stellar reputation over the last four decades.”
With no dealers or middle-men, Lifetimer Boats customers can be rest assured they’ll always deal directly with Eric and his top-notch team. It’s the type of experience one should expect when investing in a made-to-order, custom-built boat. Openness, fair pricing and hands-on treatment keeps people coming back; it’s why Lifetimer is celebrating forty years of success in such a competitive market.
And what of the next decade and beyond? Eric Duncan has an admirably straightforward answer to that question.
“To continue producing our great product.”
This content was sponsored by: Visions Upholstery
