Anyone in Ohio close to Checkmate know what happen to them. Wonder if another sportboat manu out of biz sure looks like it and rumor thru the boat mill is they are totally gone. Sure hope not so anyone knows the scoop.

I looked at a new 1 in jan. at the boat show, it was bad a$$ Hope nothing has happened to them.

rumor is they shut down,,too bad hope i am wrong

according to the Checkmate Owners Forum, the doors are closed while they wait for a back log of orders to come in. They don't have the money to stay open. And also that Doug Smith has some health issues. But in another thread, they say good news is coming. Lets hope for the best--hate to see another performance boat mfg go under!

Economy sucks! Which means closings for some boat manufactures in the last couple years. Which means more people should buy boats. But then physiciatrist may be out of jobs. Haha Had friends with checkmates hope they come back up!

I know someone at the Bucyrus FD that had to go do an inspection on the sprinkler system because they shut their doors and are closed for good.

D*mn.

Does this affect XT at all? I thought they shared a building. Surprised to hear of this as I thought checkmate was still doing ok and signing new dealers, etc. This sport really needs reasonable lines like this. Guess there still just aren't enough buyers out there to keep anyone afloat.

XT is in seperate buildings. One of their builds is a couple miles down the road from checkmate

The numbers on production boat companies simply don't work........

They have priced the common man out of a boat......

So it's no surprise that Fountain, Baja, Donzi, Checkmate & a whole host of other boat manufacturers are tits up.....

It doesn't look like any want to face the music & drastically streamline their margin structure.

Bad news for brokers as they are running out of old boats to flip to the next sucker in line.... Oh wait all the suckers are gone....

(Just look at the Fountain section in the classified ) With 102 boats for sale good luck dumping your beak to the fool in line. When Reggie exited the stage so did the loyal owners.....