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No wonder their products have tubed in the last couple of years. Curt Jason, Director of Sales has been there 11 weeks. Dean Jarvis, the Plant Manager - 7 weeks. Victor Schmidt, Operations Manager - 1 year. John Bower, Head of Engineering and Marketing, the only veteran of Mako has been back 5 weeks having had quit after 7 years.
At least they have a new team and a new effort.
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Otto …
They apparently had people in there that were only looking at bottom line …didn’t give a crap about the prowess of the hull, ultimately in the quality of what was manufactured. I don’t care if the guys have been there a month or 10 years …their backgrounds are what will make or break the re-org. They need Operations and Plant managers along with Engineers that can redesign and build boats right…Now that’s not “rocket science”.
To follow somewhat as Bill and Ed said ….
I don’t care for companies with such broad spectrums in their lines … You need really REALLY good people to manage such diversity. I personally feel they really need to be separately managed entities. So many boat lines have suffered when they have lost focus and expanded their lines ….
Just look at these two lines Mako and SeaCraft. Both once very proud lines …. But with somewhat different target audiences. Mako is gearing more towards the all around line …boats from 17’ to 31’ including center consoles, bay boats, walk-arounds, cabin boats etc etc …. With more boats becoming much more “Family Friendly”
SeaCraft ….Hard core sportfish boat …one style being center console and what …five boats in the line 20,21,23,25,32. Several other high end lines follow this plan …Regulator is almost a twin with its lineup 21,23,24,26,32…small line some may say but who do most others almost always get compared against?? A seemingly narrow focus has certainly worked well for them...
These names need to break away from the Tracker stigma …. I mean come on …Saltwater center consoles, that share bloodlines with freshwater Bass Boats …I even think they (tracker) has a houseboat line ….GET REAL !!! I can just see Regulator, Contender, SeaVee etc etc doing something like that ……
He is trying to build a boat empire riding coat tails of two once very prestigious names … but until he gets the right people, which these guys may be those people, in there … and starts to build quality stuff and STAND BEHIND IT …Its going to be awhile before one is “ able to get in it and run it 50 miles offshore and not be concerned. It’s about confidence in the product.” …Sorry, but me personally, I have little “confidence” in Tracker based on recent press.
Lots of work ahead for this new crew... I hope they can do it…. It would be a sad day to see SeaCraft dissolve