Brad

Stockholders not customers

OldSchool

...and creditors

B.A.

You might want to try www.SeriousOffshore.com, you'll fit in real good over there.

Hey Indy if I wanted to join that site I would have already

POWERPLAY J

They are a select group. Limmited memberships available!

verbi69

Yeah, now I'm not sure what to buy next!!

Catastrophe

You don't see the difference ??
Then you never will. Give up trying.

A fishing boat manufacturer sponsors a fishing tournament to promote their product.

As opposed to


A boat manufacturer sponsoring an event that has no connection to its business but entertains the family .


Wake up

verbi69

Entertains the family with a customers hard earned cash that will never see the boat that he paid for.........forgot that part!!

JUPITER PULSARE

WOW...just read through 50% of this thread and alot of bull$hi+ is being tossed around. Not taking any sides but I will voice my opinion. The boat builders over the last decade have taken a beating. Some of the biggest names in the business have gone belly up, went BK, dissappeard or just closed their doors including quite a few who owed potential buyers/vendors money. It's not been an easy road for the few who remain..and even those few have scaled back, made changes and diversified to capture a larger buying audience. The name Pantera has been around for 35+ years. Like many other manufacturers they have had their ups and downs but they are STILL trying to survive as a family owned custom boat business. I know they have not been able to deliver boats on a timely basis and customers have been waiting rediculously long to get their finished product... but the product they have produced has always been well respected and built with quality. Pantera has a loyal following and I'm sure the Pantera fans would like to see the company survive. I can only hope that restructuring the company will get the people who are owed boats their finished product and the people who are owed money paid in full. The high performance boat world needs the guys who take the risks to manufacture these boats to survive. It's what fuels our passion and keeps our sport alive.

Comanche3Six

LOL! A glazed donut.

JUPITER PULSARE

Comanche3Six, it may be a glazed donut and wishful thinking but it is reality. The days of having dozens of high performance boat manufacturers are over. The days of cheap money, cheap gas and cheap labor are over. The wannabe high performance boat buyers that were lucky enough to capitalize on the housing boom already bought their toys and many of them have already had to sell due to biting off more than they can chew. Some of the biggest names in the industry are questionable (Donzi, Fountain, Baja). Outerlimits, Active Thunder and quite a few others were smart enough to scale back to survive. Cigarette is building more fishing boats than Offshore boats!! Eliminator went BK and had to restructure. Powerplay is gone (but supposively coming back with new owners/models). Sonic has almost been non-existent.. not to mention all the confusion that took place with Frisini!!! It seems the only Apache's are just being rebuilt over and over and over...Most of us on Offshore only can only dream about owning an MTI, or Platinum, or Skater or Nortech. We need the guys who build the Offshore 24's, 26's, 28's 30's etc. V bottoms and cats to survive. None of these boats are cheap to buy or build but they are at least what gets us into the game with the ability to move up in the future.