Four Winns presents its new web site. Four Winns was founded in 1975 by John Winn with brothers Bill Junior and Charlie, and father Bill Senior who financed the business to buy the Saf-T-Mate boat building company. Before setting up Four Winns, John Winn worked for Starcraft as a factory rep, and after this he set up a company with his brother Bill representing several boat builders. One of the builders Winns represented was Saf-T-Mate, founded in 1962 from Cadillac, Michigan owned by eighty year old George Spicer, who ultimately sold the business to them. In the first year the company continued with the Saf-T-Mate name, changing to Four Winns in 1976 and debuting with six speed boat models; from the fourteen foot Bimini, to the nineteen feet Nassau. In May 1978 tragedy hit Four Winns as a fire totalled all the factory in Cadillac. All was destroyed in this fire minus the tooling, and the willingness to continue. Technically Four Winns went bankrupt, but due to the excellent results of the Winn brothers, a local bank and suppliers extended the line of credit, with them re-opening a new production facility in Frisbie, Cadillac. Following the dark period of the oil crisis in the early eighties, Four Winns started a plan for its business to go beyond the state of Michigan, with this resulting in the opening for a new satellite facility in Athens, Texas in 1985, in order to become a national known brand. This paid off and in 1986 Four Winns was rated as the third largest boat builder in the USA, which led to it being sold to Outboard Marine Corporation Boats Group in 1987. With the selling to OMC, three of the Winns will retire, while John Winn will remain as president up until 1995. Following financial difficulties in 2000 OMC will be broken apart, with its boating arm and Four Winns sold to Genmar in 2001. Eight years down the line Genmar will follow a similar path, filing for bankruptcy in 2009, with Four Winns and ten other boating brands sold to Platinum Equity Rec Boat Holdings in 2010. In 2014 Four Winns along with three other boat brands was bought by the Beneteau Group. Four Winns today offers fifteen model in four ranges; Bow Rider, Hybrid Deck, Surf Series, and Multihull which start from the twenty foot H1, and go to the 36 feet TH36. Four Winns new web site takes you around with the following buttons; Our Boats, Shopping Tools, Owners, Build and Price, Dealer Location, and Become a Dealer. Four Winns is also present on social media with bottom left buttons taking you to its; Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin, and Instagram pages.
Production History; *inboard cabin boats only
Marquise 180 Cuddy 1981-83
Santara 204-205 1981-84
Santara 204 Sport/206 Sport 1982/84-84
Santara 204 Sport Fisherman-207 Fisherman 1983-84
Liberator 204/211 1983/86-89
Sundowner 225 1984-86
Sundowner 226 Sport 1984-86
Sundowner 227 Fisherman 1984-86
Seajaunt 217 1984-85
Horizon 195/196 Cabin 1984-86
267 Quest 1985-90
Santara 215 1985-86
Santara 216 Sport 1985-86
Santara 217 Fisherman 1985-86
261 Liberator 1986-90
245 Sundowner/Vista 1986/87-88
235 Sundowner 1986-88
241 Liberator 1986-89
215/225 Sundowner 1987/88-
195 Sundowner 1987
205 Sundowner 1988-93
285 Vista/285 1988/91-93
315 Vista/315 1988/91-93
201 Liberator 1988-94
255 Sundowner 1989-
255 Vista 1989-93
251 Liberator 1989-92
195 Freedom/195 Sundowner 1990/92-
265 Vista 1990-93
221 Liberator 1990-94
365 1991-93
325 1991-93
235/245 Vista 1991/93-1994
215 Sundowner 1993-
235 Sundowner 1993-
238 Vista 1994-
258 Vista 1994-
278 Vista 1994-98
298 Vista 1999-2005
328 Vista 1999-2006
338/348 Vista 2000/02-04
280 Horizon 2000-05
285 Sundowner 2000-05
378 Vista 2002-09
288 Vista 2004-09
348 Vista (ii)/V358 2005/07-09
278 Vista/V285 2006/10-12
318 Vista/V335 2006/10-13
338 Vista/V355 2007/10-12
310 Horizon 2007-14
V458 2008-09
V475 2010-12
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