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I am doing this with my Company. This is called Heritage

Branding. I am re-launching Colchester Rubber Company

1888-1893. I will be manufacturing footwear based after

their 1892 basketball sneaker. Go to www.USPTO.gov and search to see if the

Trademark is being used for manufacturing of Boats.

If not, then register it online, only $325. Do it yourself.

Better yet get some old early 20th Century Boat Magazines on Ebay

and find a cool old company, that is long gone and

use that name.

Then your Company has a history, buy all the relics and

paper about the company you can find. for advertising. 

my example.

Colchester, since 1888, originally founded in 1847.

owned by George Watkinson, The Father of the

Basketball Sneaker.

Colchester the World`s First Sneaker Brand.

So who is the World`s First Power Boat Brand.

Read all you can on the West River Brands concept.

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks everyone, this is the stuff I`ve been looking for.  While I still don`t know if I will be able to pull it off with Sidewinder.  At least I now have some example of where something like that has been done before.

Colchester,  I have been collecting anything having to do with Sidewinder since last December,  back then I started a forum for Sidewinder Boat Owners.   I have nearly everybrochure.  Various magazine reviews of the boats.   A company history.   How they started.  Lawsuits.  We`re compileing a list of companies that have copied the design over the years(maybe 20+ copycats).  We`ve even found a couple of sets of molds for the boats.    

I`ve got an update to this thread.

I got an email and a phone call about my site www.sidewinder-boats.com from a guy that claims to own the Sidewinder  Boats Trademark.

He let me know that his company will be building new Sidewinders for the 2008 model year.  And was concerned that I added a hyphen to my domain, because he already had www.sidewinderboats.com 

After talking to him on the phone, and he seems pretty decent, he had originally thought I was going to give him some trouble.  It is decided that we will be mutually benefitial to each other.   My site has been building hype about the boat for almost a year now, with 240 members and growing.  While his site, only just barely mentions Sidewinder.   If people come to my site they might find out about new Sidewinders being built by him, and if they buy a new Sidewinder, they might join my site to be part of the group.  AND if any of the dealers that will be selling Sidewinders want to sell on my site it will cost them a Supporting vendors membership. 

So while I`m not going to be building new Sidewinder myself, I`ll still be building my own boats, and making some side money with the Sidewinder Boats Fan Forum. 

Then......in a few years if this guy never builds these new boats like he says he is, then maybe, my company will have grown enough to buy him out.

Sounds like this could be a great possible partnership. :-) Unless, as you say, you eventually buy the company out. 

THAT is not true. Not even one of the original founders of Sidewinder is dead or incapacitated in ANY way. My father is one of them, and I am in contact with the others, who are my uncles. I loined your Sidewinder site, and it`s a lot of fun for me, as I knocked around the plant as a little kid. Look me up on your site and feel free to contact me! It would be fun to visit, and I know where at least one of the molds went. I`m Craig on your site.