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Cabriana Sea Skiffs is a boutique maker of custom sea skiffs built out of fiberglass and teak. It is located in Pensacola, Florida.
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History
The company was founded in 1996 by Lynn Rabren. The "boutique Gulf Coast boatbuilder" was purchased in 2007 by Curt Morse after a difficult period in which it had struggled in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Before buying Caribiana, Morse had been in the horse business. Morse said he grew up "in the Delta riding around in a duck boat”.
Caribiana's sales were adversely affected by the late-2000s financial crisis and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Production
Caribiana's sea skiffs are produced in small quantities (about 12 boats a year in 2011 when about 110 were in existence) and outfitted for "serious" as well as recreational fishing. The boats, costing between $24,000 and $70,000 in 2010, have been described as having "graceful" hull shaping and "classic" teak detailing, and the business won a Garden & Gun magazine award for best of Made in the South in 2010.