The VIP and BayStealth Boats Story

VIP is located in the small, northwest Louisiana town of Vivian, where marine dealer Bill Parker began manufacturing boats in 1968. Mr. Parker founded VIP because he couldn’t find a boat on the market that he would recommend to the very important people he called friends. VIP’s mission from the very beginning was simply to build a better boat. That’s a promise we deliver every day.

After building tens of thousands of boats through several decades in the business, Bill Parker and his veteran VIP team turned their attention to bay boats. If any type of boat desperately needed VIP’s level of innovation and quality, it was the bay boat.

Our team tested the best bay boats the industry offered and found repeated copies of the same outdated design. Other bay boats were wet running, rough riding, cookie-cutter copies of a narrow beamed hull that had been around for decades. The VIP team of designers and engineers knew they could build a better boat by throwing these old ideas out the window and staring with a clean sheet of paper. Through more that a year and a half of testing and perfecting, the VIP team created the first totally new bay boat design the industry had seen in years — BayStealth. New from the ground up, BayStealth established the new benchmark by which other bay boats are judged.

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