Hudson Boat Works is a manufacturer of Olympic class rowing shells and a world leader in the development of racing hull shapes, carbon composite construction, and innovative components specific to the sport of rowing. Hudson boats have won 69 medals at the Olympic and World Rowing Championships since 1984. In the Men's 8 competition at the 2004 Athens Olympics the World Record of 5:19 for the Olympic distance of 2000m, which still stands today, was set in a Hudson. This is quite an accomplishment for a company that started out with two employees in a garage and now has 50 employees and a state of the art plant next door to Lake Fanshawe. Hudson Boat Works has transformed from a small domestic company to one that is competing on the world stage but still proud to say built in London, Ontario.