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79nautique 
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 Topic: a lesser boat’s founderPosted: January-18-2006 at 10:05am |
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I have a question, maybe brian can answer, he seems to be the trivia wiz but here goes. does anyone no who the founder of mastercraft is? I'm dealing with a guy about buying some parts and he states he founded the company so any thoughts?? don't beat me up to much for the mastercrap reference.
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82tique
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Posted: January-18-2006 at 10:19am |
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The founder's last name is Shirley (or something like that)....can't remember the first name.
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Posted: January-18-2006 at 10:21am |
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99 percent sure it was founded by Rob Shirley in 1968, and that he was a cypress gardens performer at the time.
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79nautique
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Posted: January-18-2006 at 10:31am |
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ok thanks that's all I need to know. Joe you can add the other 1 percent as well to make it 100.
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bkhallpass
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Posted: January-18-2006 at 11:24am |
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Yep, Rob Shirley founded MC in 1968.
A few years back he founded Infinity boats along with Chris LaPoint, and another guy who is tournament driving expert, and whose name escapes me. This year, Rob Signed on with SVFara, an inboard manufacturer out of Canada. SVFara has since introduced a tournament ski boat to its line which looks exactly like the Infinity. I haven't seen the boat in person (I will at the end of the month) but I suspect SVFara got the molds, patents, etc. from Infinity when they hired Shirley. BKH |
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79nautique
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Posted: January-18-2006 at 11:38am |
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Would you like for me to ask him to send pictures of it for you? I've been e-mailing with him the last couple of days.
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bkhallpass
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Posted: January-18-2006 at 11:45am |
 Thanks, but no need. There is a SVFara
dealer in the Area, and they will have boats at the SF Bay Area Boat Show end of this month, and also our local Discovery Boat Show in May. Also, January Waterski magazine is the annual boat buyer's guide, and they have writeups on most of the inboard manufacturers. SVFara has a five page spread with some pretty good pics. Online at waterskimag.com, they have some pretty interesting virtual footage of many of the boats as well. BKH |
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Posted: January-18-2006 at 7:36pm |
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Wow! What a surprise that BKH would have the full scoop. I too knew that it was a guy named Shirley but leave it to BKH to have all the trivia. We should pay for BKH's membership here. Oops, its free here! Whata place!...jbear
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Posted: January-19-2006 at 8:11am |
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cliff Clavin strikes again
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[QUOTE=79nautique]
yea kiss me ass the rest of you sob's, [/QUOTE] |
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bkhallpass
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Posted: January-19-2006 at 9:35am |
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Now slalam guy, you're going to give me complex and I'll be Frazier before you know it.
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Posted: January-19-2006 at 9:42am |
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Is "Cliff Clavin" the know-it-all guy on Cheers? Shows how muckh tv I watch. BKH, you know slalom was just kiddin'...john
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"Loud pipes save lives"
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79nautique
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Posted: January-19-2006 at 9:54am |
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Cliff was full of B.S. most of the time that's not really fair to BKH he's always spot on
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Posted: January-19-2006 at 10:14am |
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It was a joke.
Don't want you to explode on me like the other guys mr.79nautique. |
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[QUOTE=79nautique]
yea kiss me ass the rest of you sob's, [/QUOTE] |
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79nautique
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Posted: January-19-2006 at 10:27am |
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No realy???? your kidding???? never would have thought of that
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Posted: January-19-2006 at 10:30am |
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It's all fun. I think we were all joking around here. That's half of why I monitor this site.
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Posted: January-19-2006 at 10:36am |
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I'm diffently fun'n and I watched cheers alot Cliff was always the answerman regardless of the quuestion or topic but most off the time it was a line of bs instead of the right answer. It's fun to jab at brian because his triva is alway right well so far that is.
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Posted: January-19-2006 at 10:53am |
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I'd hate to see you when you get really mad 79, but it is fun to watch people push your buttons.
 Maybe you should start smoking hippy lettuce to relax.
BKH- thanks for being normal and realizing I'm just playing around. I just don't picture you as Frazier though.
I've had my fun for today.See you guys later 
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