What's up, everyone?

Welcome back to the Dive Bomb Squadcast.

I'm your host, Matt Judy, and you might be watching this on a Monday, but it's a Friday.

So I cracked me a bushlight instead of a monster this time.

Our guest today, you might have seen him hauling ass past you on a duck boat or maybe partying on a river bar for Reaper Fest. We have the owner of Reaper Boats, Zach Randall on today. How are we doing, Zach? I'm doing good. I appreciate you guys having me on today. Heck yeah, dude. Appreciate you coming on. So you were just testing a boat before hopping on here,

weren't you? Yeah, I was actually. We typically don't work on Fridays. We got a, got a few things in progress. And I was like, you, uh, you asked me to come on it too. I was like, no, I'm actually on my way to the water. So I'm here. So it didn't tell me out. So that's Yeah, exactly. You made it, it back safe. Hell, yeah. So what was testing that one for? Just a little one that just got built or a test run or something? Yeah, just something I'm going to run in Arkansas this year and see, uh, see it's better than what we have already. A little personal build there. Yeah, just a little personal bill. Hell yeah.

Well, getting out of the gate, I kind of wanted to start, you know, the whole history of

Reaper boats and what you've built so far.

I kind of wanted to, you know, just start from the ground up and get some inside intel

on how this whole entire business started because we got to, we got to visit your shop last year and the man it was

impressive seeing all those boats getting cranked out and uh yeah i guess just how did this whole

thing start for you and it's really wild like we never expected it to grow at the rate it did like

obviously we thought it was going to succeed or we wouldn't have done it but for us to be be where we're at right now is insane. Like, it's a steamroller, really, at this point. Like, I feel like we've come a long way from the very beginning, but we've really just jumped out in front of everybody from the start and just haven't let off the gas. So it's wild. Like, we started in 21, a reaper but i was with edge for like five years

before that kind of in the design process and the sales side of it really kind of carried that flag

for them and just hit the end of my rope creatively i mean i wanted to do some things that they

weren't willing to do and actually had gotten all the way out of the boat business for just a split period of time, like a couple months. And the guy that helped me start Reaper called me one day. And he's like, hey, he said, you want to build boats? It's like a Tuesday. I don't know why I'm on the phone up on him. I'm like, no, I'm out. But hopefully I did still want to build boats. So we ended up getting together.

Him and his brother had a real dragboat history,

and I obviously had a ton of history in the woods.

So we took what I knew about what a boat needed to do in the woods

and how to make it do that and what they knew about making boats go really fast in a straight line

and combined the two and ended up with an absolute rocket ship. Yeah, I can see that. You've got quite the rep on absolutely quality boats now. It's cool to see, you know, start something literally from the ground up, you know, take your knowledge from past experiences. But that's hilarious, dude, that he just called you up and he wanted nothing to do with it right away yeah like no dude i'm good i'm hunting i was i was i was remote man i was working

remote seven days a week hunting just wherever i wanted to be like i really think i was in

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