The Burger Boat Company, of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States, is a builder of custom-designed, hand-built pleasure cruisers.

[2] The demand for small fishing boats for local fishermen prompted the production 20' to 30' Mackinaw style vessels.

Around this time the production of new wooden sailing ships was waning, and the Burgers foresaw the shift to maintenance, rehabilitation, and service within the industry, purchasing, in Manitowoc, the only dry dock between there and Detroit, none existed at the time on Lake Superior.

In 1890, Burger built and launched the 201' ferry S/S INDIANA for the Goodrich Transportation Company, the largest and by far most successful passenger steamship line on the Great Lakes.

[9][10] David Ross and partner Jim Ruffolo, Chicago entrepreneurs, acquired the bankrupt company in 1993.