Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Making their debut at the 2016 dealer
meeting in Las Vegas,
Nevada this
September, Cobalt and Marker
One introduced five new models
– a record
number of new boats introduced by the company in any
one
year. The Hilton Lake Las
Vegas hosted more than 400 dealer and vendor participants all eager to
experience the new boats.
The
2016 product line takes innovation to the
extreme level with superior
construction, exclusive new styling, and inimitable performance and handling.
The Cobalt
A40, in the hard-top version, made its introduction in2015 and has made big waves in the performance day boat sector. New for 2016 is the A40 Coupe with
a sleek windshield and integrated top design. The
12' beam houses roominess for
the
entire crew, all
while they enjoy the luxury that
surrounds them. The
Coupe features
impeccable slim-line styling with a
navigation
equipment shelf, sliding sunroof, and
a retractable sure shade integrated
into
the design. This new model
provides Cobalt customers
the freedom of choice when
it
comes to the style of day boating they prefer: the open air
feel
of the hard top or the comfortable
convertibility of the coupe.
The newest addition to Cobalt’s
award-winning line of bowriders is the all-new R30
– a
luxurious open-bow day boat designed with “Free Space Reclamation”, Cobalt’s exclusive technique for cockpit
maximization.
Elegant and expansive seating options combine with its endless storage spaces to provide
the legendary ride that Cobalt
is famous for. The largest of
the BR Series,
the R30 also features an electric actuated swim step
astern along with a beach
of a sunpad – large enough for
four sun
worshipers. The port side features a head compartment that doubles
as
a changing room. At the helm, the captain will
find the glass cockpit design provides a birds-eye-view for a safe and enjoyable
day
on the water – equipped with
Garmin screens that keep your systems and route in view at all times.
Cobalt’s R5 Water Sports Series Surf
boat featuring the
FWD drive from Volvo Penta
was a huge hit
at
the meeting. Cobalt and Volvo sponsored the
SURF SHACK and provided surfing lessons to over 125 participants
during the launch
of
this new product. The
WSS Surf features a patent-pending surf
control
system – which
automatically tunes the boat’s attitude to the optimal surf configuration. The R5 WSS Surf combines
all the advantages
of a
sterndrive coupled with the wake-making capabilities of
a forward
drive.
The wake out back is fully customizable providing smooth transitions and
a wide push zone. Jumping on plane instantly, the R5 WSS Surf features the same smooth, comfortable, quiet ride that Cobalt
owners have demanded since 1968.
The 2016 Cobalt CS3 is making its debut as the newest boat in the
Gateway Series.
Measuring over 23 feet and
perfectly priced – the
CS3 features a completely new hull and
deck design.
Innovation married
with new interior styling will
catch the eyes of younger boaters looking to step into a Cobalt. The CS3 features an island sunpad with
port and starboard walk-throughs at the transom. Don’t think you can afford a Cobalt? This boat
is the perfect stepping stone into that boating arena – and will be especially appealing to those who do not wish to compromise luxury or
performance.
Marker One Platform Series launched
in to the pontoon market
with two fiberglass decked models in 2015 – the M25
and
M27. This year,
the ML4 will add to the line featuring
a popular L-shaped
seating layout,
new
exterior and interior
styling,
and a new aggressive price point. Its elegant styling and broad selection of
features will have luxury
pontoon seekers taking notes. The fiberglass liner combined with
unique fiberglass hull sides will
make this model
a contender in this popular
segment. Engine choices of Mercury,
Yamaha, or Evinrude provide the freedom to choose. Couple that
with
the electric swim step and exciting gel coat color options and the ML4 is destined to be the buzz at this year’s boat
shows!
For more information on these new models
along with
a complete list of
boats, go to www.cobaltboats.com and www.markerone.com.
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Monday, July 01, 2013
In these days of endless sun and perpetual youth, the water holds a particular attraction for the athletic and the less-inhibited among us. Cobalt’s Water Sports Series (WSS) boats have been built for friends and families who enjoy each other at speed, in the air, occasionally upside-down.
In addition to all the expected, all the traditional advantages of Cobalt design and manufacture – raw power, quickness to plane, and stability in the turns, for example – the WSS boats bring along some special features sure to catch the practiced eye of marine athletes and the good-hearted people who pull them around.
Let’s begin with the unglamorous but utterly necessary: Cobalt wakeboard racks from industry pioneer Roswell stash up to four boards safely up, up and out of the way, preserving precious interior storage space. Proven Roswell design meshes maximized functionality with clean chromed lines in a package at once fashionable and efficient. Look for cast-aluminum tines machined to exceptionally close tolerances with a reinforcing backing plate and protective rubber gaskets mechanically positioned, all to ensure lifetime strength, lifetime ease of use. A three-position swivel comes standard on all Cobalt racks for convenient loading and unloading of boards – no damaging drops, no more leaning out over the gunnels to retrieve a board.
Okay. Time to jump up and down. Here comes the ski tower, ready to deliver the vertical lift necessary for airborne antics. Made of superstrong stainless-steel tubing (2” O.D.) all around – no aluminum whatsoever, the tower rises from backing plates structurally embedded in the fiberglass for rugged, durable, failsafe mounting. Welded grab handles emerge on each side. A bimini top creates generous headroom under a fully protective sunshade.
Let the acrobatics begin.
Accurate and consistent in its performance, easy and straightforward in its use, the Wakeboard Pro cruise control from PerfectPass helps even inexperienced drivers deliver smooth, predictable, essentially perfect rides to skiers and boarders. The Wakeboard Pro makes water sports more enjoyable, and simply so: just by preselecting a speed on the in-dash display and pulling the rider up as usual. At the chosen speed, the Wakeboard Pro takes firm, precise control.
And get this!
A personalized screen shows riders’ names and preferred speeds, in addition to all the expected data from a digital speedometer and tach.
And up, down, and all around the WSS boats mean that famous Cobalt ride.
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Categories: Cobalt Boats, Lifestyle, Watersports | Tags: Bowrider, Family Boating, Lifestyle, Wakeboard, Watersports
Monday, June 10, 2013
In the little Kansas town of Neodesha a huge sign hangs over the entrance to the Cobalt plant: “Through these doors walk the best boatbuilders in the world.” Simple statement of a complex fact.
For owners of Cobalt boats the word “best” passes without contradiction. Those proud owners’ confident assurance of Cobalt quality begins in the handiwork of their boats’ builders. Key word: “builders”. Not producers. Not assembly-line workers. But builders – hands-on, personally engaged, personally responsible builders. Craftspeople with demonstrated skills, an uncompromising ethic of work, and self-imposed standards of individual accountability.
Cobalt is approaching fifty years of building boats in the classic tradition. We’re a throwback of sorts, a company of the insistent belief that the very best work is done by hand. Of course, we understand the role that the tools of a digital age can play in the production of boats of immediate service and enduring value. Machines can produce. They can produce just fine. And we take rich advantage of the accuracies, the exact replications, the measurements of performance that emerging technologies make possible.
But only a knowledgeable, caring human being can build.
So we persist in the daily pursuit of the unreachable -- the design, manufacture, and ongoing support of the perfect runabout, the ideal performance cruiser. With our dealers worldwide, we give our minds and hearts to the winning of the hearts and minds of our customers.
And the results are these, tangible and unforgettable in a summer that lasts like laughter: the escaping ooohs and inescapable wows of sudden movement, a welcome if unasked amnesia, the cares of a workaday world whisked away in a nanosecond of spray, land-locked worries gone in the laughing thump to the chest that defines a good, good day.
Build on, Neodesha.
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Categories: Cobalt Boats, Innovative Features | Tags: Boat Builders, Boating Industry, Cobalt Boats, Luxury Boat, Neodesha
Thursday, May 16, 2013
You there at the marina, you on the beach absorbing a welcome sun, confess your fascination with arches. Acknowledge the ooh-ah power of a marine arch, its implicit ability to turn heads and open jaws.
Of course, we feel the same sort of excitement upon first glimpse of our forward-facing arch. It’s proving a spectacular, spectacularly popular add-on, forward-facing, strong in use, and so very easy to fold afterward. And of course, Cobalt seeks to make the choosing easy, the new arch available on a wide variety of our boats, optional for BR Series models stretching from the 200 to the 262, standard on the 24 and 26SDWSS boats.
The engineered, so carefully planned benefit of the arch comes in the movement of the ski line to the boat’s highest point, at the top of the arch, where wakeboarders will find better pull all around, where beginning riders will find a much easier lift out of the water on those first, jittery, exhilarating seconds aboard a board. And tubers of the world, you will love . . . guaranteed . . . love being pulled from the tower because it makes for bigger air. The elation becomes yours, yours alone at the end of a rope leading to the best boats built in America. Indeed, in the world.
Good looking and then some, the arch adds adventurous style to, say, a 220, making it, for all the world to see, like a much larger craft. Bear in mind too that the arch brings along a bimini top as part of the package.
And it folds. It folds. Easily, down to windshield height where storage becomes a non-issue. It will fold for your nine-year-old daughter, and then tomorrow at full mast it will take on the most rigorous boarding, the most difficult passage through rough water with not a bounce in sight.
Of course, rock ‘n roll speakers and hold-tight board racks come along as additional options. Look forward now, please. Add an arch to the Cobalt cruising there in your boatly dreams. Leave a Comment
Categories: Innovative Features | Tags: Boat Builders, Boat Dealers, Cobalt Boats, Watersports
Monday, May 06, 2013
One of the revolving headlines now on the Cobalt website invites you to an in-home showing of a new video entitled “Building Dreams.” We underscore that invitation again here, asking that you gather the family for an enjoyable look at all the reasons why this coming summer will stand among your very best ever. In Building Dreams the people behind these boats emerge from the plant in Neodesha to explain the ingredients of Cobalt value, from design rationales to raw materials to manufacturing processes to quality-control methodologies. A happy blend of the technical, the historical, and the merely gorgeous, “Building Dreams” will show how fiberglass and stainless steel and leather and glass gather toward the greatness of a Cobalt, how a fundamental passion for boating can lead to more than forty years of marine imagination, to thousands upon thousands upon thousands of happy hours on the water for successive generations of Cobalt owners.
Pack St. Clair, Cobalt’s founder and guiding light, introduces the video, and you’ll find in Pack’s easy warmth and quiet confidence the basis of Cobalt’s refusal to compromise on these boats’ design or construction. Cobalt’s second generation of leaders speak to the continuation of the founding principles to every Cobalt in succeeding model years, as the design and manufacturing principles of large yachts come to the building of small runabouts.
The video offers you a personalized walk-through, bow to stern, of the best boatbuilders in the world going about their daily responsibilities. From the lamination schedule of the fiberglass to the composite miracle that is the transom to the Kevlar at critical points of boatly strength, you’ll come away with a rich understanding of why your Cobalt, with proper care and maintenance of course, will perform through a lifetime of comfort and performance. Look for fulsome discussion of Cobalt’s bill of materials, the more than 2500 individual parts which constitute a finished Cobalt. Line by line, the insistence comes on quality, quality and, later, more quality still. A number of long-time Cobalt associates -- and they are legion, generations of entire families working together here – speak to their jobs, day to day, asking always “the Pack question.” “Would Pack St. Clair approve? Would he buy off on the job I’ve just completed?’
Listen from title to credits for echoes of the Golden Rule. It’s all so simple really: friends building boats for friends to sell to friends.
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Categories: Cobalt Boats, Lifestyle, Videos | Tags: Boat Builders, Cobalt Boats, Family Boating, Lifestyle, Neodesha
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