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The company was founded in 1968 by Randy Repass in Sunnyvale, California, with the name West Coast Ropes, selling nylon rope from Repass' garage. The first retail West Coast Ropes store opened in 1975 in Palo Alto, California. With the acquisition of assets from West Products in 1977, the company changed its name to West Marine Products, Inc.
Arc Boat Company (Arc) is an American electric boat company based in Los Angeles, California, specializing in high-performance, all-electric watercraft.Since its founding in 2021, Arc has raised over $100 million in funding from notable investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Eclipse Ventures, Menlo Ventures, and celebrities like Will Smith and Kevin Durant.
Though the company started with a single wooden tugboat in 1936, as of 2015 Sause Bros. has a modern fleet, including double-hull barges. The company's Southern Oregon Marine division repairs and maintains the fleet, as well as designing and building new vessels. Sause Bros.' history includes two fatal accidents and a 1988 oil spill.
Hornblower Cruises is a San Francisco–based charter yacht, dining cruise and ferry service company. In 2021, the company rebranded most of its services as City Cruises or City Experiences. In 2024, the company filed for bankruptcy protection. [1]
The company was in business until early 2013, having been succeeded by Tattoo Yachts. [2] MacGregor produced primarily small, trailerable sailing yachts, from a 15-foot (4.6 m) catamaran to 17-foot (5.2 m) pocket cruisers, up to 26-foot (7.9 m) water ballasted trailerable sizes.
The company's original brand, Malibu Boats, remains the company's premium brand. [14] In the early 1990s, Malibu adopted the practice of offering to fly purchasers of certain high-end custom boats to their factory headquarters, then located in Merced, "for a red carpet factory tour where they can see the special edition being built right before their eyes". [20]
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The company was founded in 1889 by Thea Foss (1857–1927) and her husband Andrew Foss. The company is now the largest tug and towing concern on the west coast of the United States . On July 2, 2013, Foss Marine Holdings announced that (effective at that date) it would merge all of its operations and resources under a single name: 'Foss ...