New York Tinmes
Selling Slow Boats to a Faster Crowd
By DEE GILL
Published: September 26, 2007

ALMOST since its introduction more than a century ago, the electric pleasure boat has been known as the golf cart of the sea, loved mainly by the oldest of the retiree set. With an old-fashioned canvas canopy and a top speed of about eight miles per hour, it is a notoriously unhip craft, holding little appeal among the younger sail-and-power crowd that has made recreational boating an $11 billion-a-year industry......read more

St. Petersburg Times Article
Cruising on a current
By PAUL SWIDER
Published April 18, 2007

Imagine a day of boating on Tampa Bay fueled for $1. That's the promise from a new company building electric boats
that get power from a wall outlet.

"This is going to be the only Florida-based manufacturer of electric boats and probably the only one making hybrids at
all," said David Rich, who orchestrated the financing for Vision Boatworks.

The company took its maiden voyage Monday in a 24-foot craft of its own design. Workers later shrink-wrapped the
craft for a trip to the Green Festival in Chicago.

After the festival, it will be delivered to a customer there. Six boats were sold before the first one came off the
company's assembly line at 10410 66th St. N. .....read more