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Old 08-04-2023 | 10:19 AM
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Can you actually visit the plant these days? I would think a drive by would confirm how busy they actually are. With that many orders I would think the factory would be humming.
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Old 08-04-2023 | 10:43 AM
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The haterade is on tap and flowin’!
When Skater starts making pontoon boats, I promise I'll hate it just as much 😉
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When Skater starts making pontoon boats, I promise I'll hate it just as much 😉
Well played. Thanks for the good laugh. Have a great weekend .
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Old 08-04-2023 | 02:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Plowtownmissile
When Skater starts making pontoon boats, I promise I'll hate it just as much 😉
cigarette has been building center consoles since the 90’s. Skip actually saw the market changing in 07 and started building them again. One of the first to do so. Now it’s their bread and butter. You have to follow the demand or die.

I’m no CC guy and wish they would focus on traditional offshore boats. However, a custom builder builds what the customer wants.
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Old 08-04-2023 | 02:34 PM
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cigarette has been building center consoles since the 90’s. Skip actually saw the market changing in 07 and started building them again. One of the first to do so. Now it’s their bread and butter. You have to follow the demand or die.

I’m no CC guy and wish they would focus on traditional offshore boats. However, a custom builder builds what the customer wants.
Yup. Sunsation would no longer exist without going CC.
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Old 08-04-2023 | 03:03 PM
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Originally Posted by thisistank
cigarette has been building center consoles since the 90’s. Skip actually saw the market changing in 07 and started building them again. One of the first to do so. Now it’s their bread and butter. You have to follow the demand or die.

I’m no CC guy and wish they would focus on traditional offshore boats. However, a custom builder builds what the customer wants.
Not to bring Fountain into it but they always did CC's. I remember I very old interview, maybe from the late nineties or early 2000's were Reggie said for a long time the CC market floated the rest of the company.

Course his were more fishing then the bling they all do now.
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Old 08-04-2023 | 03:24 PM
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Yup. Sunsation would no longer exist without going CC.
I think it's likely that Nortech would be long gone as well.
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Old 08-04-2023 | 03:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Plowtownmissile
When Skater starts making pontoon boats, I promise I'll hate it just as much 😉
Skater DID build a deck boat. So, there is that caveat.
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Old 08-04-2023 | 04:48 PM
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I think it's likely that Nortech would be long gone as well.
terry Sobo to the rescue!
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Old 08-04-2023 | 07:08 PM
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I know guys and Mystic would be gone too if they hadn't made the switch along with the others. I understand why but it doesn't mean I gotta like it. I do applaud Skater and Outerlimits for making it without having to change.

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Well played. Thanks for the good laugh. Have a great weekend .
it was a good article Matt and very well written. Glad I got a laugh out of ya 🙂

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Skater DID build a deck boat. So, there is that caveat.
True and Peter wasn't happy about it lol. Whatever happened to PBams two Skaters?
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