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December 19, 2005

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Sometimes you just have your back against a wall. I
committed to
getting boats out before Christmas and we are doing everything we can
to do
so. Fun 1, Fun 1.5 are ready to go. The rest of the boats are being made
as we speak. We got our first production seats and U-channel bracket in
on Friday and worked all day on Saturday, and Sunday (until 9:30pm) and
the
guys are working 16 hours today. Our goal is to make as many boats as
we
can before we close on Friday for a week. We were initially going to
close for two weeks, but everyone was behind doing what we could to get
the
boats done.

Goat, Brad, Jase, Tim, Tom, Adam, Nate, Daniel, Stephen,
Tommy (Tom’s 14 year old son), Clay, Kristine, and I all put in time over
the weekend. We made trim templates for the seats for all boats, bracket
templates, and put together a bunch of seats. Right now each seat takes
15 minutes to trim out, and another 15 minutes to prep for instalation.
We have a long way to go to be efficient making Boat Armor Outfitting,
which is a huge added expense on our 2006 boats, but well worth it for
the performance and safety.

I am heading over to the shop now to see where we are
after the first 8 hours of today’s production. The guys were doing well
when I was there early this morning. Clay and Stephen are into working
tonight as well, how cool is that! Our team guys are team players in every
sense of the word. Clay even brought in beverages last night.

🙂 EJ

P.s. Of the 450 boats we were supposed to ship before
we closed, we are going to get out maybe 120 and the rest will go out
in January. A failure to meet our delivery date? Yes. We are two months
earlier than we were getting 2005 product out and have the creekboats
ready for creek season! This will be a great spring for Jackson Kayak.
If you are waiting on a boat- let me know what it is.

 

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