Originally Posted by XT-Innovator

You can mass produce qaulity, both Mike and Kip Combs have told me that it was common for Checkmate to produce 60-70 boats a week in the mid 80's. Right now mass production is the number of fingers you have on (one) hand per week for most boat companies. I think that when you see the new Checkmates at the boat shows, you will see what I see...

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Originally Posted by Shameless

Of course you can mass produce quality, many do it, Baja was not one of them for many years, and they were cooky cutter boats. Where I live, I got tired of seeing 10 of them all tied up together that all looked the same.

To be honest, it is not the boat I hate so much, it is the attitude of many of the owners, many of them think their chit don't stink, and I do not care what you own, that is a piss poor attitude!!!

Originally Posted by wantingmore

It's cookie. And yes my chit doesn't stink.

Originally Posted by emilsr

Looks like the Baja section was hijacked and changed to the Checkmate section so I figured I would find the Baja crowd here. Where is everybody???

Originally Posted by Shameless

I am not worked up at all. Just staing that if Smith turns Checkmate into a mass produced cooky cutter, I am done with them...