Re: Aquasport History?
Matt, Maybe I can shed a little light on the subject, seeing as I worked there at Wellcraft, where they were built after Genmar bought them and moved them from Hialeah, from '94-'00. 225 and 245/250 Ospreys, along with many 175s, 200s, 215s. On my Ospreys, once the boat was decked, I did the rest of it. Built the cockpit, installed and wired the console, installed the leaning posts and T-Tops, prepped the transom, hung and rigged the motors...11 hours a day, 8 on Saturdays. Left for Stamas Yacht in Sept. '00.
After OMC went bankrupt in '99, Genmar bought the majority of OMC's boat lines, including Hydra-sports, Seaswirl, Four Winns, Crestliner, and Princecraft. Problem was now they had 4 fiberglass fishboat companies competing against each other...Wellcraft, Aquasport, Seaswirl, and Hydra-sports. So the Aquasport line-up was pulled in around '05 to do some "market repositioning"...and is still moth-balled today. Don't know what happened to the molds, doubt they took them with them when they high-tailed it out of Sarasota to the Four Winns plant up in Cadillac, MI. Would love to have them back.
BTW, see you live in O-town. Lived there for 14 years, south Orlando off of Oak Ridge, then had a house built just inside of Ocoee, mile north of Silver Star...
