Experience

Stan Hunter’s great-grand-parents arrived on Lake Muskoka inthe1880s, and in 1900 built a cottage which remains in thefamily to this day. Stan came early to wooden boats, as ayoung child helping to maintain the family's 1933 Ditchburn "Evangeline" (purchased new by his grandfather).
The Hunter family's marine heritage is deep. That's Stan's Dad and Grandfather among those cruising in the Evangeline.
Stan's uncle experiences the "roar of power" propelling Evangeline across Lake Muskoka.

As a teenager Stan worked as the caretaker on a neighboring island, where, under the tutelage of a retired boatbuilder from Greavette's (a well known Gravenhurst boat manufacturer), he kept a fleet of 17 antique boats in tip-top condition.


After university in 1981 Stan moved to Muskoka full time and began carrying out wooden boat repairs for Clift's Marine. As an apprentice of Ron Butson at Butson Boats Ltd., starting in 1984 he learned the traditional crafts of woodworking, rebuilding and refinishing Muskoka boats.

In 1990, Stan Hunter Boatbuilder opened for business.
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