Originally Posted by blacklabmarine

No disrespect taken. I'm obviously a newbie when it comes to offshore powerboats and their history and I, too spit beer all over my computer when people post stupid questions on the forums I spend most of my time on. After doing searches I realize that my question was pretty stupid.

In my defence I thought that I had seen these videos on youtube in the past and had done a search with no real results. Having done so again and read (with amazement and great interest) this whole saga of possible drug runners, competitors, Presidents, Mafia, etc I must have been mistaken.

The reason for my question might be a better place to start...

http://rocksaltalloyboats.shutterfly.com/74

We're an aluminum alloy boatbuilding company - smaller fishing boats and now bigger deep-vee boats. I say this not to advertise (as you guys wouldn't be prospective owners anyway) but because I'd like to approach a builder in this market to team up with on a project.

If the Apache folks were still the same as the boat in the videos I thought that that might be a good place to start - apparently not.

I might post this question on the main forum..and, yes, I know it might be a bit of a newbie question with no final answer and, yet, the answers would be helpful if not definitive...

Which company in this market:

1) Most honorable/Best Run
2) Best Riding
3) Toughest

In other words - if you were looking for a partner among the boatbuilders in this market who would you choose...??

Nor-Tech?