Is Pantera still around?
 

I saw their Facebook page but dont see anything but swag promotion.

I poked around and couldn't find their site.

If they are gone where did the molds end up?

Seems a great many people would like this legacy continued.

Thanks!

Uncle Dave

I don't think they are building any boats. I hate to speculate, but it looks like Jo's passing may have been the end. :( Sad on many levels.

Very much so.

I know Pantera had a great following and they had some tough times (very familiar with the tough times).

It would seem to me there is a lot of history of success and client goodwill if someone carried the line forward.

Bummer that no one has come forward to try to keep it going.

UD

That and there isn't much demand for these offshore boats anymore.

Tell me about it. Still trying to understand the center console craze.

UD

the 36 and 41 definitely have a future... the 28's are probably a victim of the times, if your going to spend 120k, you aren't going to do it on a new 28' boat. The 41 is one of the sexiest boats I've ever seen, too bad all of them have been ragged out. If someone continued the 36/41 and put together some CC deck molds they could have a business. Otherwise it will stay how it is.

Unfortunately the doors on production are shuddered and as you saw just selling merchandise.

https://www.facebook.com/Pantera-Boats-155502547824080/

So far as the CC craze. I'm all over that bandwagon. I actually have useful comfortable space for nine passengers, storage out the ass and beer cooler, a small efficient cuddy with head and stock egg beaters that will out last any IO engine with better MPG and still run 65 plus. Don't get me wrong at age 25-35 I would have kicked my own ass for even thinking about a CC but with age comes wisdom. lol

Anyone taking over the business? Is there anyone to chat with?

As to the CC, Im not a hater for fishing, but having been on them many times as a pleasure craft but the experience didn't match the marketing.
A deck boat would work better for me.
Everything has a phase -remember metal flake root beer brown? Im old enough to.
Eggbeaters - love em, they seem to fail with as much regularity as anything else, but have way fewer people to work on them.

That said a day on any boat is still more fun than a day in the office.


UD

I'm still at a loss in that a little over a decade the prices have doubled for products like that, is there a REAL reason? I saw some dude advertising a used Sunsation 28' here the other day for $135. You gotta be out of your mind to purchase something like that at that price.

What happened to Jo is a tragedy. I wish this boat line could continue but I could say that about a lot of boat lines.

I went to their shop once and talked to Pepe for a little while, very nice and let me look around at whatever. The stuff that was in production was being done very clean and appeared to be solid. It is a shame that any kind of business that produces stuff of that caliber is no longer around. Same for Powerplay. I don't know anything about the publicized deals that went south but it may just be a case of a company struggling to survive which often means taking very risky chances and when they don't work out someone unfortunately gets hurt. It doesn't mean the intent was bad or the competency wasn't there just some combination of a poor economy and business decisions that in hindsight would've probably been made differently. Some of these companies probably should've have closed up years before they did as they had solid reputations until the end. Kinda like a pro football player that played a season or two beyond his usefulness.

As for pricing it's crazy, I'm at a point in life that I can finally now afford that new boat that I've been thinking about for years, however when I went shopping I quickly realized that I can't afford it. You always had to have decent money to buy one of these things but it's really up there now. When I think about the technology in my truck compared to what's in these boats the truck is light years ahead but still affordable. However if GM only built 50 Sierra's a year I probably couldn't afford it.