Specialties
Factory direct manufacturer of power-catamaran deckboats. We are not an assembly line operation. We meet with each customer to customize a boat that meets their needs. Our deckboats are the smoothest riding boats of their size and price range.
History
Established in 1972.
Splendor Boats is a small, family-owned boat company striving to fulfill specialty niches and create innovative fiberglass products. A strong and enduring company, Splendor Boats is now in its third generation of family ownership. The current owners have invested years of work in the company prior to taking over the commanding rolls, and each brings a vastly diverse area of expertise, collaborating new and exciting possibilities to a company with a past full of unique and innovative products.
Splendor's fiberglass shop is quite diversified, with a variety of clients in the agriculture and automotive industries. The diversity keeps the shop active as sales in the marine industry fluctuate throughout the seasons. Another of Splendor's strengths is its ability to remain factory-direct, this allows Splendor to keep costs down and focus on high quality products and direct customer service.
Meet the Business Owner: Doyle H.
The company's founder, Doyle Heckaman first began boat pattern making in 1972. Over the years Doyle has made just about everything possible out of fiberglass such as steeples, fan housings, running boards, van tops, and of course, boats. He use to tool boat hulls for other major boat builders, but when he developed a new hull idea in 1989, a new page in history was written. He came up with a revolutionary, catamaran design. Along with his engineering team, the hull was perfected to a level in which it would NOT require two engines to perform exceptionally well. This design significantly lowered the cost associated with owning a luxury boat of this class. Splendor Boats was officially born.
As of 2007, the company is now in the hands of its 3rd generation of Heckamans. Doyle's three grandchildren, Adam Heckaman, Andrew Heckaman, and Amy Heckaman-Parker.