A continuing family tradition. (Rinker Boat Company, Inc.)

From: Trailer Boats | Date: July 1, 1996 | Copyright information

Lossie Rinker gave up dairy farming in 1945 to build rowboats and soon moved onto making runabouts. Rinker Boats began its longtime relationship with the Boats of Dearborn, MI, dealership network in 1956. Today Rinker's dealership network reaches around the world.

* Third-generation Rinkers steer the family craft into the future

SYRACUSE, IN, July '96.--

In 1945 Lossie Rinker decided he'd had about enough of the life of a diary farmer and started to build fishing boats in a shop in Noblesville, Indiana. With the help of his sons, John and Jan, Rinker soon went from building rowboats ...

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