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| | C & L
History:
The
Canadian history of the production of Sandpipers is due to C & L Boatworks
who over the years had various owners and work locations such as;
 | 1950's, C & L Boatworks, (Croce
and Lofthouse), made CL-16 sailboats. |
| 1970's, C & L Boatworks, Waterhouse
& May LTD, (David and Anne Waterhouse, Bob May) who moved it to
Pickering Ontario and added the CL-11, CL-14, Echo-12, Code-40, and the Sandpiper-565
sailboats. |
| 1970's,
C & L Boatworks Limited. |
| 1993,
CL Sailboat Shop,
(owner Tom
Oleksiuk) who moved it to
Fort Erie and added the stealth sailboat. |
| Up to July 2009,
CL Sailboats, P.O.
Box 1314, 2439 Garrison Road, Fort Erie, Ontario, L2A6G2, Phone (905)
894-2233, Fax (905) 894-6464 |
| CL Sailboats (bigger
location) 967 Helena Street Unit A, P.O. Box 1314, Fort Erie, Ontario,
L2A6G2, Phone (905) 871-4625, Fax (905) 871-4626 |
| August 2010-2018, C & L Boatworks,
(owner Dave Ventresca),
is located at
976 Helena Street
, Unit A,
Fort Erie
,
Ontario
, and their phone number is 905-871-GOCL (4625). Email:
info@clboatworks.com,Website:
CL Boatworks.
In the spring of 2018 after 25 years with
being involved with C&L Boatworks, Dave has retired and sold the entire C &
L Boatworks brand and assets to to Geoff Martin of Velocity
BoatWorks. |
| Summer of 2018, Velocity Boatworks,
(owner
Geoff Martin) of
Velocity Boatworks
is the new owner of the C & L line of
boats. Based at 446 Hamilton Road,
Belleville, Ontario.
613-922-4802.
Geoff is also the builder of the i550 Sports boat and will continue building the C
& L line of boats.
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The following classic pictures are
from the CL Archives of the building of a Sandpiper S565 in the C & L
Boatworks, Waterhouse and May Ltd. facility in 1974-75. "Thanks C
& L Sailboats", for sharing this bit of history with our dedicated
S565 sailors!
click on the
Pictures to Enlarge.
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