Classic Boat nr. 196, 2004 fejrede Hillyard i en artikel - Hillyard 100-year heritage - som dels fortæller om David Hillyard og værftets udvikling gennem 100 år og desuden har en artikel om den engelske forfatter Arthur Ransome, som nåede at eje 3 hillyarder.
Om David Hillyards både skriver Classic Boat: ....."Then there are the boats themselves, which for all their determined ordinariness are quirky, distinctive, and much loved - and fiercely defended - by their proud owners.
Are they in fact classics? Some boats are born classics - your Fifes, for example; others seem to achieve the status mainly by lasting time, while others never quite qualify, however old they are. Hillyards are regarded as being in the second of these categories (or the third, by some less charitable observers); you won't find a hiIllyard in the Brittish Classic Yacht Club for example."......
"The difference at Hillyards was that designs were being created in-house, with a view to replicating them in a series of boats, and were often innovative"......
Out Skerries i Havstenssund maj 2010
Out Skerries i Havstenssund maj 2010