Tag Archives: Yar-Craft

Bass Cat fills the boat with school supplies

Bass Cat and Yar-Craft Boats focused on a season of serving this fall with collecting school supplies and doing a lake clean up. Team members came up with “Fill the Boat with School Supplies” campaign. Over 200 pounds of supplies were donated. People brought in paper, pens, pencils, folders, notebooks, calculators, erasers, glue, crayons, colored pencils, back packs, and more. These ...

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Bass Cat and Yar-Craft Boats win ethics award

Bass Cat and Yar-Craft win BBB ethics award

Bass Cat and Yar-Craft Boats have been named recipients of a Torch Award for Ethics by the Arkansas Better Business Bureau. The distinction honors Arkansas companies demonstrating high standards of business practices aimed at creating trust among employees, customers and their communities. Bass Cat and Yar-Craft were honored for their “Making Life Better” efforts. The company culture focuses on people, ...

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Bass Cat and Yar-Craft celebrate safety milestone

Bass Cat and Yar-Craft Boats celebrated over 500 days of no loss time injuries and hosted all its employees and their families at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri. Rick Pierce, Bass Cat and Yar-Craft President stated, “Safety is our number one priority at Bass Cat and Yar-Craft because we are driven to send the team home safe. Our culture ...

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Yar-Craft introduces updated 219 TFX

During Yar-Craft’s annual “Excellence in Action” Dealer Meeting held in Branson, Miss., Yar-Craft boats introduced its 2020 Model 219 TFX. It’s rated for up to a 400hp engine and carries 60 gallons of gas.“Whenever you’re on big water chasing big fish, especially for big money, this is the deep-hulled boat that you need to get you out there safely and ...

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Bass Cat and Yar-Craft complete facility construction

Bass Cat and Yar-Craft completed construction of a new building and opened renovated additions to one of its existing buildings. These additions will bring new opportunities, increase production, and enhance the overall working experience. The Bass Cat and Yar-Craft facility has added a new repair facility, sewing facility, and lamination booths with an area dedicated specifically for building new production ...

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Correct Craft employees complete Jamaica service trips

More than 60 employees from several Correct Craft companies recently visited Montego Bay, Jamaica, on employee service trips. Two employee groups traveled between June 29 and July 8. Employee volunteers from Correct Craft and its various subsidiaries (Nautique, Centurion, Supreme, SeaArk, Bass Cat, Yar-Craft, Bryant, Aktion Parks and Pleasurecraft Engine Group) banded together to help Naz Children’s Center, a school ...

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Freshwater focuses on consumer-driven innovation

Freshwater fishing remains a critical market segment within the boating industry. Recent data from Statistical Surveys confirms that the market continues to exhibit solid growth in the single digit range.  According to SSI, sales of new retail registered outboard-powered aluminum fishing boats in the U.S. increased from 61,000 in 2016 to 62,000 in 2017.  Total freshwater fishing, which includes aluminum ...

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New Bass Cat, Yar-Craft production facility breaks ground

Correct Craft’s brands Bass Cat and Yar-Craft’s recently announced expansion plan will increase their production capacity of boats by over 50 percent. The construction of the new facility will begin in May. Since Correct Craft acquired Bass Cat and Yar-Craft in 2015, the company has experienced significant growth, more than 80 percent in sales. Demand for the Bass Cat and ...

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Bass Cat and Yar-Craft Boats adds new dealers

Bass Cat and Yar-Craft has added six new dealers in the past few weeks. As new models are being introduced, the dealer network will be presenting these new products to potential owners that have not previously been exposed to Bass Cat and Yar-Craft. Bass Cat/Yar-Craft says its sales team has worked vigorously to initiate relationships with potential dealers around the ...

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Bass Cat mourns loss of Founder Ron Pierce

Bass Cat and Yar-Craft mourn the loss of Bass Cat founder and industry leader Ron Pierce, who passed away over the weekend. Pierce, along with his wife Jan, started Bass Cat in their two-car garage in 1971. Over his 44-year career, Pierce took Bass Cat from its beginnings and transformed it to become the bass fishing boat manufacturer it is ...

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