Sea Otter Workboats Ltd have ceased trading.

We are obviously disappointed to receive notice that Sea Otter have gone into liquidation. A situation caused by the general downturn in the UK economy, especially for discretionary products. Having continued to take stock through the winter Walton Marine were unable to place enough orders this season to support the necessary factory production.

All production boats on order for customers have been delivered as promised, with customers stage payments secure through Walton Marine’s agency. Sea Otter and Walton Marine have ensured that no customers will loose out with only one bespoke boat currently unfinished. This boat being supplied through Walton Marine will be completed for the customer by selected staff and management over the next two weeks.

Sea Otter’s use of marine grade aluminium alloy (which does not rust), for building quality narrow boats is a great example of manufacturing innovation from a small British family business.

No other narrow boat, especially cheaply built imported product, provides such a good investment as a Sea Otter.

Walton Marine will continue to support owners, including boats still under warranty and are able to offer a full statutory warranty on all new and ex-display boats available while stocks last. Sea Otter owners have always benefited from very high resale values and we anticipate that with limited supply, values will continue to hold up very well.

We hope that it will be possible to restart production at some later date and would be happy to discuuss potential orders for bespoke or production boats. In the meantime we have boats in stock as listed below.