From humble beginnings to masters of boat building. 

Leon Sikkers left Chris Craft in 1955 and founded the Slickcraft Boat Company in Holland, MI. The company was sold to the AMF Corp. in 1969, and Slikkers continued as president until 1973. Then in 1974 Slikkers founded S2 Yachts and began building cruising and performance sailboats with the Pursuit series of fishing boats followed in 1977, and in 1979 the Tiara series was introduced.  One of the marine industry’s most admired and successful companies, S2 Yachts remains one of the few privately owned and operated production boat builders in the U.S.