The plant re-opened today after being shut down last week for the 4th. I headed over to get some orders in and handle some other biz and, walked in to a very surpised Keith and Lonnie. They had just gone thru last week's stack of mail and found 2 copies of the new B&WB with the Suzuki powered 190 on the cover and they were just blown away. No one at Blazer had a clue the article was coming much less any idea it was going to be on the cover! I gave the article a quick scan and from what little I read they were very complimnetary of the boat though the speed is a bit disappointing. The jury is still out I guess on trying to make a 4stroke work on a bass boat, so far the speed results have been a bit under par.

I will say the Suzuki folks have been very good to work with since we signed with them back in December. Their engines will always primarily be used on the bay boats and they have sold rather well these last 6 months. They asked us to build that 190 for them back in January and they had it on display in their booth at the Classic in February down in Orlando. They say it got a lot of interest, I had to be in TN that weekend to work a show with C & O or I would have been down there. Now that I think about it.......Orlando would have been a lot warmer.......maybe I can get Todd to do some shows down there!

Bottom line is, any ink is "good ink", just wish there had been a 7 in there intead of that 6 but, who knows, one day they may get these 4 bangers to run.