Who are we?

Mallard Marine was founded as an idea in the Spring of 2016 in the parking lot of Dallas Baptist University as a way to make money at school fixing up old boats. With the help of my new friends and now great mentors Ronnie and the late Justin Fretwell of Xtreme Marine, I began to learn the marine industry. I fixed boats in the parking lot behind the DBU soccer field until the Athletic Director decided the small boat yard full of engine stands and parts was an eye sore. I myself was sunburned. It was time for a move.

In the summer of 2018, the name Mallard Marine was born as we rented our first building in Trenton Texas and hung our banner. We filed officially with the state and began taking official repair jobs. While finishing my Biology degree at DBU during the day, I worked until the wee hours of the morning at the shop in Trenton at night, carving out our first customer relationships. 

Young and unsure of ourselves, my wife and I made the decision upon graduating from Dallas Baptist University in the winter of 2018 to move to East Texas. We loaded every possession we owned on a borrowed trailer and moved the shop to Nacogdoches Texas. Mallard Marine was now full time. After a year renting a shop, we were blessed to purchase our next location on 259 north of Central Heights and spent 7 years there working hard to learn and enhance our repair capabilities as well as secure product deals with the companies that interested our customers.

In July of 2026, Mallard Marine is making the move to an even larger location on US 59 South between Nacogdoches and Lufkin, to even better serve our customers. This larger location will allow for a more streamlined repair and repower process, as well as customer experience while they are at our facility. 

Today, Mallard Marine employs 3 hard working employees and has had the great privilege of servicing or repairing now in the thousands of boats and counting. We have sold boats as far south as Corpus Christi and as far north as Ontario Canada, and from the far west coast of California to the East Coast. We appreciate every single person who has embarked on the journey with us and look forward to many years serving our faithful customers.