cobalt

30 YEARS OF REFINEMENT & REFUSAL TO COMPROMISE

As a recent graduate of the University of Kansas, Pack St. Clair had some definite ideas about boats, the boats he had loved as a youngster. He went to the 1969 boating industry trade show in Chicago, and he discovered there that his ideas had not been tried. He learned that his thinking about boats might be brand new.

Pack imagined runabouts being built with the quality and prestige of ocean going yachts. His thinking involved few exceptions. And no compromises.

From the beginning, his partner Dan Bramhall and he worked in the day-to-day. All construction then, as now, took place in-house. They learned, and they built what they learned into ever better boats. they concentrated day after day on the details of their boats construction and, one after another, the details gathered toward something they called "Cobalt."

Now this company is 30 years old, one of the oldest boat-builders in America with its original owners still working in the daily management of the business. The second generation is now at work in Neodesha, perpetuating the mindset, ensuring that the Cobalt traditions of design and construction will continue.

Never content to be mere assemblers, the people of Cobalt are, first and last, boat-builders, people who ask of themselves a fundamental question: "How can we build it better?"

In response, a thousand answers have been crafted in to Cobalt boats over these ten thousand Cobalt days. Refined, passionate, answers that refuse to compromise, to ever admit that good enough is good enough.