COBALT BOATS |runabout|runabout boats|performance boats|bowrider To this day cobalt boats anchor night after night in a tradition of rugged individualism, in the pride of people with extraordinary skills set among a small town's uncompromising notion of what might be. We know these people, the neighbors who come every morning to build these cobalt boats. We know their grandparents and their grandkids, second and third generations of families now crafting the fourth decade of Cobalts boats.These are rooted people, solid in a work ethic born on farms and ranches, people who understand at first hand the ways in which personal accountability serves collective achievement. People who grew up with cobalt boats founder Pack St. Clair in a small town with big ideas. People with a sense of place. cobalt boats remains a privately held company, its founders still at the helm, still engaged in the daily management of cobalt boats design and cobalt boats manufacture, still refusing ever to admit that good enough is good enough. We build boats on the premise that, in all our work in Neodesha, no one job is more important than another. As cobalt boats has grown to a company of nearly 600 associates, we try very hard to perpetuate the genuine sense of family that has characterized our interactions with each other from the beginning. And so again tomorrow we will do our part to nourish the implicit trust which underpins our relationships with cobalt boats dealers, with Cobalt associates and, of course, with the remarkable people who own Cobalts boats. In 1985, Cobalt boats introduced an engineering achievement that has since become perhaps the most imitated component of performance in the industry. Cobalt boat owners often talk about their boats' remarkable stability in all kinds of water, and the extended running surface. Many Cobalts boats are now using reversed chines to compound the benefits of the longer running surface. Cobalt boats design calls for an all-fiberglass stringer system on virtually every model. Where other manufacturers settle for plywood, Cobalt boats insists on the strength and longevity of fiberglass. All Cobalt boats ladders are designed and built for extra-heavy duty. Perhaps no detail of Cobalt boats construction says more about the overall quality of these boats than the aluminum backing plates that anchor every mounting point for hardware from the bow scuff plate to the side-rails to the seat pedestals to the swim ladder. Engine vents on Cobalts boats are aluminum, strong and durable, milled from solid aluminum stock for long life, and finished in urethane for ongoing good looks. And Cobalt was the first manufacturer to build into every boat a bow scuff plate to guard the gelcoat during trailering. Made of heavy-gauge stainless, the scuff plate remains a Cobalt boat exclusive. Ski tows are oversized and mounted high to structural steel supports, and all Cobalt boats canvas is fitted to stainless steel frames for matchless strength and resistance to flexing. Cobalt boats exclusive, multifaceted approach to fiberglass construction is fundamental to the boats' value in the long term and to their performance and aesthetic appeal in the mean time. Cobalt boats lamination schedule calls for seven alternating layers of fiberglass mat and woven roving, each hand-laid, with double thickness at the keel. Also, as extra layer of protection, another Cobalt boats standard the Xycon barrier coat stands between the fiberglass and the gelcoat. Cobalt boats Armorflex 952 gelcoat offers superior repairability, matchless clarity, and high-gloss buffback, with blister resistance far superior to standard gelcoats. The statistical process control that monitors the production of fiberglass is a perfect example of Cobalt boats quality assurance at work. Every Cobalt boats hull remains in the mold through the entire curing process allowing each stage of lamination to cure thereby eliminating any possibility of warping. Cobalt boats has long used technologies developed in other industries in aerospace maybe or the automotive industry and then adapted the lessons learned there to the building of ever better cobalt boats. The Instron Tensile Tester, for example, helps Cobalt boats engineers determine the ultimate strength, elongation, and stiffness of structural components. Now a critical part of Cobalt boats quality assurance program, the Instron tester takes its place alongside the more comprehensive testing that determine if a boat is good enough to be a Cobalt boat. Every cobalt boat, bar none, spends its time in the test tank before leaving the factory. A random lake test program puts three of every eleven Cobalts boats through their paces in actual first-time use during a two-hour shakedown test of all systems on a nearby lake. In fact, every Cobalt boat 29-footer and larger is lake-tested before it leaves Neodesha. Cobalt boats interiors distinguish themselves by their spaciousness, their obvious luxury, and the fit and trim of finishes that only true hand craftsmanship can produce. The captain's chairs represent the next generation of the classic Cobalt boat flip-lip design. On the chair backs ride clasp handles for lounging passengers beginning to feel the exhilaration of a Cobalt boat coming on plane. The unmistakable comfort of Cobalt boats seating begins with the composite construction of the seats. |
