"Australian tow boat manufacturer..."

[NCSUmoomba]

I was curious about the history of Moomba, so I searched around on the internet and found this.

http://www.lewisboats.com.au

Very interesting. They even have boats called, Outback, Moomba,and Boomerang!

Pretty cool!

-Brian

[moombadaze]

like that eclipse v-drive

[NCSUmoomba]

Yep, I am glad they kept the roo. Does Skier's Choice have some sort of partnership with them? Or did after those first molds, did Moomba and Lewis continue along separately?

[kaneboats]

Saw this site a long time ago. Would love to hear more of the history.

[RickT]

The association with Lewis?

Back in the 80's, then president of Supra - George Fowler struck a deal with Lewis Boats to bring a boat over from Lewis in exchange for Supra shipping boats to Austrialia for them to build. This boat later became known as the Boomerang. This continued for a few years and the two companies separated their relationship - in a probably a not friendly way, as I am told.
The Moomba name was created by Supra for use in the USA and never came from "down under". All other brands from the Outback, Mobius,etc from about 1990 have been designed and built here in the US. Some of the current boats & names that are similiar to our products that you know of down in Austrialia would appear to be knock off's of our lines in some manner. Josh Sanders and his Brother Justin are the distributors of both Supra and our Moomba Mobius series in Austrialia and we are excited to be involved and associated with them.

Hope that helps,

Rick

[NCSUmoomba]

Very interesting. Thank you very much, Rick. We all appreciate you letting us know this. I love to know this history of how things have come to be.