Intrepid Powerboats
| Private company | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Boating, Luxury goods |
| Founded 📆 | 1983 |
| Founder 👔 | |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | Largo, Florida |
Area served 🗺️ | |
| Products 📟 | Yachts |
| Members | |
Number of employees | 380 |
| 🌐 Website | https://www.intrepidpowerboats.com/ |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
Overview[edit]
Intrepid Powerboats is a custom luxury powerboat manufacturer and retailer with a manufacturing plant based in Largo, Florida and a Sales Center located at Harbour Towne Marina in Dania, Florida.[1]
The company slogan of “One of a kind. One at a time.” underlines their approach to boat design, production and customer service. Intrepid offers sport yachts, walk around cruisers and center console boats from 27 to 40 feet in length.[2] The vessels are custom-rigged to accommodate activities such as fishing, diving and day-cruising, as well as overnight outings.
History and Innovation[edit]
Intrepid entered the marine market in 1983 with a new 30-foot open-formed powerboat, the world’s first vessel built with a wood-free core composite system enhanced by a vacuum-bagging and resin infusion molding process.[3] Power & Motoryacht reports the method delivers greater strength and rigidity to Intrepid hulls while also shedding weight, which results in faster speeds, superior performance, and increased fuel efficiency.[4]
Intrepid’s powerboats were also the first to incorporate a large signature “step” in the forward panel of each hull, delivering a more stable ride. This transverse step is matched to the hull shape and the offset hull panels create more lift aft than at the step itself, so the boat runs with its bow up, keeping it drier than the flat running angle of other stepped hulls, which have hull panels at equal declivity.[5] A tulip-shaped (convex or flam) bow entry adds buoyancy to the vessel and complements the offset panels in the signature large-step hull design.[6]
Since 1983, Intrepid has continued evolving its nautical design, engineering and fabrication techniques. The company also claims several industry firsts, including being the first to prototype a dive door and the first to create dive doors that penetrated the hullside.[7]
Other Intrepid manufacturing techniques include the precision engineering of hand-laid uni- and multi-directional laminates to withstand the stresses and loads of rough seas [8], and the use of knitted fiberglass cloths that provide a 20% increase in tensile strength over the woven fabrics commonly used throughout the industry. To further guarantee performance and satisfaction, Intrepid powerboats are individually tested and inspected, then sanded, buffed and polished by hand before they leave the factory.[9]
Television Features[edit]
The company was featured in a digital television series, “Intrepid Powerboats on the Water,” which was produced by Revma Media in association with Power Media Solutions and aired for 3 seasons.[10]
Intrepid Powerboats can also be seen on the Netflix original series “The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes” in Season 2 Part B “Norway” episode. The episode was produced by a Wall to Wall West Production, a Warner Bros. Television Production UK Company for Netflix in association with the BBC.[11]
Business[edit]
According to a Tampa Bay Fox affiliate, Intrepid’s Largo, Florida production facility employs more than 300 designers, engineers and craftspeople delivering approximately 115 customized outboard powerboats and sports yachts per year.[9] In 2016, Trade Only Today reported the purchase of Intrepid by JDG Capital, a Dallas-based company led by David Gillikin.[12]
In the domestic marine manufacturing market, Intrepid Powerboats’ competitors include Boston Whaler, Princess Yachts and Tiara Yachts.
Luxury Models[edit]
Intrepid’s fully customizable powerboats are sorted into three model categories: Center Console, Cuddy/Walk-Around, and Sport Yacht.
| Center Console | 200 Flats: 20’6 length, 72 gallons fuel capacity
245 Center Console: 25’3” length, 147 gallons fuel capacity 300 Center Console: 30’ length, 207 gallons fuel capacity 327-I Center Console: 32’7” length, 282 gallons fuel capacity 345 Nomad FE: 34’6” length, 353 gallons fuel capacity 345 Nomad SE: 34’6” length, 355 gallons fuel capacity 375 Nomad FE: 37’6” length, 406 gallons fuel capacity 375 Nomad SE: 37’6” length, 406 gallons fuel capacity 407 Nomad FE: 40’ length, 703 gallons fuel capacity 407 Nomad SE: 40’ length, 703 gallons fuel capacity 475 Panacea: 47’6” length, 569 gallons fuel capacity |
|---|---|
| Cuddy/Walk-Around | 327 Valor: 32’7” length, 268 gallons fuel capacity
345 Valor: 34’6” length, 320 gallons fuel capacity 375 Valor: 37’6” length, 396 gallons fuel capacity 409 Valor: 40’ length, 384 gallons fuel capacity |
| Sport Yachts | 410 Evolution: 41’2” length, 450 gallons fuel capacity
438 Evolution: 43’ length, 443 gallons fuel capacity 477 Evolution: 47’6” length, 548 gallons fuel capacity |
References[edit]
- ↑ Landry, Chris. "Heady times for Intrepid". Trade Only Today. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
- ↑ "Intrepid Powerboats Inc". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2020-04-29. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Intrepid 407 Nomad Boat Test". Boating Magazine. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
- ↑ Sciacca, Capt Patrick. "Intrepid 400 Cuddy". Power & Motoryacht. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
- ↑ Landry, Chris. "The Stepped hull equation". Soundings Online. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
- ↑ Partner, Contributing (2019-10-02). "It's Not Just a Boat. Each Intrepid is a Fingerprint of its Owner". JetsetMag.com. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
- ↑ "Intrepid Powerboats Introduces New 407 Panacea". Great Lakes Scuttlebutt. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
- ↑ Landry, Chris. "Eye on Intrepid". Soundings Online. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Intrepid Powerboats on the Water (Episode 6) 2015". YouTube. 2015. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Build the boat of your dreams at Intrepid Power Boats". FOX 13 News. 2019-08-07. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
- ↑ "The World's Most Extraordinary Homes | Netflix Official Site". www.netflix.com. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
- ↑ Landry, Chris. "Texas investor acquires Intrepid Powerboats". Trade Only Today. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
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