So many of them long gone...some still around though. From the front to the back:

• Dave's Custom Boats, Shockwave, Ultra, Hallett, Commander, Fountain, Donzi, Essex, Eliminator, Howard, Warlock, Lavey Craft, Advantage, Cole, High Torque Marine, Nordic, Schiada, Sunsation, Black Thunder, Lightning, Apache, Baja, Condor, Checkmate, Champion, Awesome Powerboats, Carrera, Kachina, American Offshore, Cigarette

Thinking of the employees working at those factories, some long-closed now or relocated. Men and women who made their careers there. Sobering.

It is also interesting to think how some of them redefined what their core was which ultimately made them even more successful. Thinking Sunsation and even Cigarette to an extent.

Sorta' crazy to think that Skater had already been producing boats for 26 years by the year 2000 and won countless national and world championships. Now 25 years later they're still doing the same. Countless performance boat manufacturers have come and gone in the last 25 - 50 years of this industry - as well as countless customers who lost money due to deposits being stolen when those companies went under. I cringe every time I see new manufacturers pop-up, knowing that it means more customers are just going to get scammed out of their money. It just happened to a friend of mine that had a $120k deposit stolen from one of these new performance outboard cat manufacturers when it changed ownership for about the fourth time in the span of 6 years.

The CA Carrera made a hell of a boat. We sold a few of them on Lake George

Companies like Sunsation exploded when they went to center consoles. They could build them faster/ easier than I/O stuff and it appealed to a broader clientele. What makes them unique is they don't build I/O stuff anymore where as NT, Cigarette and others will still do I/O boats.

which company was that so nobody else goes to them and has it happen as well?

I'd like to be able to divulge this information online, but because of the ongoing legal battles, I'm not going to. I have no dog in the fight and have no reason to put my neck out there legally. Buyers honestly should just stick with the major manufacturers (Formula, Nor Tech, Fountain, Mystic, Skater, MTI, DCB, etc.) that are zero to minimal risk when giving a deposit on a new high-performance build. I've been screwed over twice on deposits on new builds, and both were smaller West Coast builders. I'm not saying buyers should stay away from new builders but buy a boat that is already finished, and you can receive an MSO on at the time of purchase rather than giving a deposit on something that doesn't exist yet and there's no MSO. You end up with nothing to go to court with.

When did Pantera go under?

Which time ?