Brendco started in 1998 when David Stricklin — a lifelong Coastal Bend angler who'd been rigging boats out of his driveway for a decade — finally leased the little bay-side workshop on Franklin Avenue. Twenty-seven years later, it's still there, and so is he.
David grew up wading Baffin for trout and running his father's 1974 Boston Whaler out of Ingleside. When the marine industry started consolidating in the late nineties, he saw an opening: a shop that would treat a $600 tackle order the same as a $60,000 repower — because the boater behind both was the same person, three seasons apart.
That principle became the shop's operating manual. We give you a written estimate before we touch the boat. We call before we go over. And when we don't know something — which happens more often than you'd think — we say so, and we find out.
David leases 1,200 sq ft behind the Yacht Club Marina. First month: rigged four skiffs and repaired a bilge pump.
Brendco becomes a factory-authorized Yamaha service center — the second in Nueces County.
Local rod builder Ed Naranjo joins full-time. Over 900 custom rods have been wrapped on his bench since.
Twelve climate-controlled bays for winter storage and off-season projects.
Three techs cross-trained. Full-line outboard service now available under one roof.
Nine people, one bay window, and a lot of Coastal Bend boaters we consider friends.
You'll know the number before we start. If we find something we didn't quote, we stop and call — no exceptions.
We stock what our own boats run. If a product doesn't earn a place on our own transom, it doesn't go on our shelf.
Between 8am and 6pm, a person picks up. After hours, we return every voicemail before we open the next morning.
4621 Franklin Avenue, Corpus Christi. Coffee's on. Bring your boat — or just your questions.
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