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Hydro-Turf

A maker of foam traction mats and seat covers for watercraft, whose HYDRO-TURF mat mark was filed in 1990 and whose name is printed on race sheets and in a national tour's title.

At a glance

Kind
Maker
Made
deck mats, other parts
On the record
14 years, from 1990 to 2024
People
Arno Olbricht (founder), Greg Pickren (bought it)
In the archive
9 links
Years 1990 to 2024, one box each A single row of boxes, solid for a year printed above a fact and hollow for a year printed above none. 1990 20002010 2024
  • a year printed above a fact on this page
  • a year printed above no fact

Printed above the facts, 1990, 1992, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2010 to 2015, 2020, 2021 and 2024. Printed above none, 1991, 1993 to 2002, 2005 to 2007, 2009, 2016 to 2019, 2022 and 2023. 2 facts have no year printed above them and mark no box.

Every year from the first to the last year printed above a fact on this page, one box a year.

How we know: the year printed above each fact below.

What it made and sold

2003 · Confirmed

A Polaris design patent for a watercraft footwell pad pattern, filed on 13 February 2003 and granted on 27 January 2004, lists among its references photographs taken in May 2003 of footwell pad specimens received from Hydro-Turf of Anaheim, California, which the patent calls a distributor of various watercraft accessories.

Sources: US design patent D485799

2013 and 2014 · Confirmed

Powersports Business wrote on 9 February 2013, in a feature quoting Arno Olbricht, that Hydro-Turf supplied the mat material for both Yamaha and Kawasaki and had gone into replacement seat covers, and it gives Polaris as the first major OEM account. The Watercraft Journal wrote on 29 July 2014, after a visit, that all of Kawasaki's current watercraft carried the Hydro-Turf oval logo in the swim platform mat, that Yamaha advertised two-tone Hydro-Turf traction mats on its Super Vortex High Output WaveRunners, and that the company shipped uncut sheets of its mat material to boat builders, board shapers and watercraft builders.

Sources: Powersports Business Hydro-Turf 2013; WCJ Hydro-Turf visit 2014

2008 · Likely

The Watercraft Journal's report of 2014 says that in 2008 Hydro-Turf added the HT Moto line of hand-stitched seat covers, footwells and tray matting, by then renamed HT Premier, and the company's own page also dates HT Moto to 2008. The magazine does not say where the date comes from.

Sources: WCJ Hydro-Turf visit 2014; Hydro-Turf About page 2026

Patents and trademarks

1990 · Confirmed

The HYDRO-TURF mark for synthetic foam non-slip floor mats for use on watercraft was applied for on 1 October 1990 by Pacific Creations, Inc., a California corporation, and registered on 24 March 1992; the register records renewals in 2002, 2012 and 2021. The registrant claims first use on 3 May 1990. The same registration now names HYDRO TURF, LLC, a Florida company, as owner, after an assignment of ownership the register entered on 28 October 2020.

Sources: USPTO record serial 74101856; USPTO record serial 74322960

1992 · Confirmed

The same registrant, Pacific Creations, Inc., applied on 15 October 1992 for a design mark for synthetic foam non-slip deck and floor pads for water sports vehicles such as personal watercraft. It was registered on 9 November 1993 and cancelled on 23 December 2000, when no acceptable declaration of continued use was filed. The registrant claims first use on 15 December 1990.

Sources: USPTO record serial 74322960

2021 · Confirmed

HYDRO TURF, LLC applied on 10 November 2021 for the HYDRO-TURF and HT HYDRO-TURF marks for fitted seat covers for marine vehicles, among other goods, and they were registered on 8 November 2022 and 13 December 2022. For the seat covers the registrant claims first use on 1 December 2008.

Sources: USPTO record serial 97117442; USPTO record serial 97117445

On the race sheets

2004, 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2012 · Confirmed

Riders' sponsor columns print the name. The association's 2004 World Finals Pro Runabout overall sheet prints Hydro-Turf and Hydroturf as sponsors, the official overall sheet of the 2008 Long Beach to Catalina and Back race prints Hydro Turf and Hydro-Turf, the first beside the first-placed finisher, and the association's World Finals results pages of 2010, 2011 and 2012 print HYDRO TURF as a sponsor.

Sources: 2004 World Finals Pro Runabout overall; 2008 LB2CAT official overall; 2010 World Finals page 1009; 2011 World Finals page 1008; 2012 World Finals page 1007

The business on record

2012 and 2013 · Confirmed

The organiser's overall points sheet for 2012 is headed 2012 Hydro-Turf UWP-IJSBA National Tour, and the association's post of 16 June 2013 on that year's Racine round is headed Hydro-Turf National Tour is Rocking Racine. Neither says on what terms the name was used.

Sources: Pro Watercross 2012 overall points; IJSBA 2013 Racine round post

Confirmed

The association's directory of associate members, captured on 9 March 2005, lists Hydro-Turf among its corporate members, and its associate members page, stamped 21 March 2017, lists the company again.

Sources: IJSBA associate directory 2005; IJSBA associate members page

2015 · Likely

The Harris Southern California business directory of 2015 lists Pacific Creations Inc as also called Hydro-Turf, in Anaheim. A separate line of the directory with the same postal code prints Arno Olbricht as President, which the archive reads as the same entry.

Sources: Harris directory 2015

Likely

Hydro-Turf's own page says the company operated in the 1980s as Jet Strip, making colourful padding for the emerging jet ski market, and relaunched as Hydro-Turf in 1990 under its president, Arno Olbricht. Powersports Business in 2013 and The Watercraft Journal in 2014 tell a similar story from the company's side. Only the first says he bought the earlier pad company and renamed it after a switch to EVA foam; the second says the company traded hands.

Sources: Hydro-Turf About page 2026; Powersports Business Hydro-Turf 2013; WCJ Hydro-Turf visit 2014

2020 and 2024 · Likely

Powersports Business, on 26 October 2020, and The Watercraft Journal, on 22 October 2020, reported the same announcement, the second printing it as a press release: Greg Pickren had acquired Hydro-Turf from its founder, and the company would move from Anaheim, California, to a new facility in Clearwater, Florida, in the first quarter of 2021. The association's post of 25 November 2024 names Hydro-Turf in a group of companies with Short Block Technologies.

Sources: Powersports Business Hydro-Turf sale 2020; Watercraft Journal Hydro-Turf sale 2020; IJSBA SBT lead title sponsor 2025 and 2026

Names as printed

Pacific Creations, Inc. (USPTO record serial 74101856); HYDRO TURF, LLC (USPTO record serial 74101856); HT HYDRO-TURF (USPTO record serial 97117445); Hydroturf (2004 World Finals Pro Runabout overall)

Elsewhere in the archive

What the archive has not read (4)

  • No document of the 1980s names Jet Strip, and the trademark register's only JET-STRIP mark is a 1960 mark of another company for another product (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-16).
  • HYDRO-TURF marks registered in 1976 and 1977 and cancelled in 1982 and 1983 belong to another owner, Hydro-Turf, Inc., and no held document ties them to the mat maker (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-16).
  • No held state registry record gives a formation date for either the 1990 registrant or the current owner of the HYDRO-TURF mark (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-16).
  • The company's own page says Yamaha gave it a supplier award in 2017; no held document of Yamaha's records it (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-16).

Documents cited on this page

  • USPTO record serial 74101856 (tsdr.uspto.gov): Trademark Status and Document Retrieval record, serial 74101856, registration 1680461 (HYDRO-TURF), United States Patent and Trademark Office, 1992-03-24; government, high. HYDRO-TURF, filed 1 October 1990, registered 24 March 1992, with a Section 8 declaration accepted in 1997 and renewals in 2002, 2012 and 2021, for synthetic foam non-slip floor mats for use on watercraft vehicles. First use claimed for 3 May 1990. The registrant is Pacific Creations, Inc., a California corporation; the current owner is HYDRO TURF, LLC, a Florida company, after an ownership update entered on 28 October 2020. The published date is the registration date.
  • US design patent D485799 (patents.google.com): US design patent D485,799, Watercraft footwell pad pattern (USPTO record), United States Patent and Trademark Office, read in Patent Public Search, 2004-01-27; government, high. Assigned to Polaris Industries Inc., filed 13 February 2003, granted 27 January 2004. Cited here only for its other-references line, photographs taken in May 2003 of footwell pad pattern specimens received from Hydro-Turf of Anaheim, California, which it calls a distributor of various watercraft accessories.
  • Powersports Business Hydro-Turf 2013 (powersportsbusiness.com): Hydro-Turf retains traction in challenging industry (Powersports Business, 9 February 2013), Powersports Business, 2013-02-09; editorial, medium. A trade-magazine feature built on an interview with a person the held text calls Arno in one place and Olbricht in others, never together (reading them as one person is the archive's inference), who is quoted throughout and given no title. Its history paragraph says Jet Strip was a pad company that the person called Arno bought and renamed Hydro-Turf after a change of material. Medium as trade press; the history is the interviewee's telling and its superlatives and sales shares are not used. The 2013 feature is held as a lightly edited copy.
  • WCJ Hydro-Turf visit 2014 (watercraftjournal.com): Getting a Grip: Inside Hydro-Turf Headquarters, by Kevin Shaw (The Watercraft Journal, 29 July 2014), The Watercraft Journal, 2014-07-29; enthusiast media, medium. A trade-press report of a visit to the Anaheim headquarters. Medium for what it saw. Its sentences that the brand was once known as Jet-Strip before an official launch in 1990, and that a line was added in 2008, echo the company's own account and may repeat it, so they are cited as the writer's statements. An email address is replaced in the held copy.
  • Hydro-Turf About page 2026 (hydroturf.com): About Hydro-Turf (hydroturf.com, read 2026), Hydro-Turf; manufacturer primary, low. The company's own About page, read on 2026-10-05: its roots in the 1980s under the name Jet Strip, a relaunch as Hydro-Turf in 1990, a motorcycle line in 2008 and a move to Clearwater, Florida in 2021. Low, because it is the company's account of its own history, and cited only as that. A telephone number, an email address and street addresses are replaced in the held copy.
  • USPTO record serial 74322960 (tsdr.uspto.gov): Trademark Status and Document Retrieval record, serial 74322960, registration 1803327 (Pacific Creations design mark), United States Patent and Trademark Office, 1993-11-09; government, high. A design mark without words, filed 15 October 1992, registered 9 November 1993 and cancelled 23 December 2000 under Section 8, for synthetic foam non-slip deck and floor pads for use on water related sports vehicles, such as personal water craft, sailboats, jet skis and sail-equipped surfboards. First use claimed for 15 December 1990. Owner Pacific Creations, Inc., a California corporation. (as USPTO record serial 74101856 above)
  • USPTO record serial 97117442 (tsdr.uspto.gov): Trademark Status and Document Retrieval record, serial 97117442, registration 6895052 (HYDRO-TURF 2021 application), United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2022-11-08; government, high. HYDRO-TURF, filed 10 November 2021 and registered 8 November 2022, for fitted seat covers for marine vehicles (first use claimed for 1 December 2008), stickers, duffle bags, and hats and t-shirts (first use claimed for 1 December 1990). The record claims ownership of registration 1680461. Owner HYDRO TURF, LLC, a Florida limited liability company. (as USPTO record serial 74101856 above)
  • USPTO record serial 97117445 (tsdr.uspto.gov): Trademark Status and Document Retrieval record, serial 97117445, registration 6923497 (HT HYDRO-TURF), United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2022-12-13; government, high. HT HYDRO-TURF (a mark with words and a design), registered 13 December 2022, for fitted seat covers for marine vehicles and t-shirts, first use claimed for 1 December 2008. (as USPTO record serial 74101856 above)
  • 2004 World Finals Pro Runabout overall (web.archive.org): 2004 World Finals, Pro Runabout overall points (PDF, Wayback capture), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2004; sanctioning body, high. Pro Runabout overall points by boat, with three motos and the sum. The sheet prints no position column and its cells drift out of line partway down the list, so an overall position read from it is an inference.
  • 2008 LB2CAT official overall (web.archive.org): Long Beach to Catalina and Back 2008, official overall results (spreadsheet on pwcoffshore.com, Wayback capture), pwcoffshore.com, 2008-08-07; editorial, high. The race's official overall results, revision of 7 August 2008, with position, number, make, time, class and sponsors per rider, read as spreadsheet rows. High because it is the results document itself; the sheet prints no sanctioning body, and the event and year come from its file name.
  • 2010 World Finals page 1009 (web.archive.org): 2010 quakysense World Finals, results page 1009.HTM (Aquascore results, Wayback capture), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2010; sanctioning body, high. A single day's Aquascore printout carried on the association's own site. The page lists its seven classes and then prints seven result sections in the same order, none captioned, so each section's class follows from its place in that list. Each entry lists the rider, home town, make, placing and sponsor lines. What is held here is an excerpt.
  • 2011 World Finals page 1008 (web.archive.org): 2011 quakysense World Finals, results page 1008.htm (Aquascore results, Wayback capture), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2011; sanctioning body, high. One day's results from the association's own site: four classes listed, four sections in that order with no caption, each entry a name, a hometown, a make, a placing and sponsor lines. The class of a section is read from its position in the list; the association's results release, reprinted by OzPWC, prints the same winner beside the class name.
  • 2012 World Finals page 1007 (web.archive.org): 2012 Hot Products World Finals, Results Sunday October 7, 2012 (Aquascore results, Wayback capture), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2012-10-07; sanctioning body, high. Sunday's Aquascore printout on the association's site, with twelve classes listed and twelve unlabelled sections after them. The text layer breaks the class list across lines. This text is held as an excerpt.
  • Pro Watercross 2012 overall points (web.archive.org): 2012 Hydro-Turf UWP-IJSBA National Tour, overall points (the organiser's own PDF, text layer, Wayback capture), Pro Watercross (UWP, LLC), 2012; sanctioning body, high. The promoter's own 2012 national tour points table.
  • IJSBA 2013 Racine round post (web.archive.org): Hydro-Turf National Tour is Rocking Racine (IJSBA post of 16 June 2013, Wayback capture), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2013-06-16; sanctioning body, medium. A narrative report of the 2013 Racine round of the national tour on the association's site, written by the promoter.
  • IJSBA associate directory 2005 (web.archive.org): IJSBA associate members, corporate member directory (Wayback capture of 9 March 2005), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2005-03-09; sanctioning body, high. The association's own list of companies holding associate membership, as its site showed it on 9 March 2005, each with an address and most with a named contact. High for which companies the association listed and whom it named for each; it gives no title or office for a contact. The held text is an excerpt of the page.
  • IJSBA associate members page (ijsba.com): IJSBA Associate Members (IJSBA page), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2017-03-21; sanctioning body, high. The association's current list of associate members, read live on 5 October 2026; the page carries a last-modified stamp of 21 March 2017, which is the date given here. High for whom the association lists; it gives no office for a named contact. The held copy replaces street addresses, phone numbers and email addresses.
  • Harris directory 2015 (archive.org): Harris Southern California Business Directory and Buyer's Guide 2015 (Mergent; read through archive.org's full-text search), Mergent Business Press, item held by the Internet Archive, 2015; editorial, medium. A lending-library item, so it could be read only through the full-text search. Entries for Skat-Trak Inc (Ken Stuart, President) and R & D Racing Products USA Inc (Glenn Dickinson, President; the Vice President's name garbled by the OCR), and Pacific Creations Inc, also called Hydro-Turf, in Anaheim (Arno Olbricht, President). The held copy shares a file with the 2016 edition's search results and has its phone numbers removed.
  • Powersports Business Hydro-Turf sale 2020 (powersportsbusiness.com): Major acquisition in PWC accessories business (Powersports Business, 26 October 2020), Powersports Business, 2020-10-26; editorial, medium. A trade-magazine news item on the sale of Hydro-Turf to Greg Pickren, a Florida owner of other watercraft and marine brands, with quotes from both sides and a closing paragraph that says the company was founded in 1990 by Arno Olbricht. The same quotes are printed as a press release in The Watercraft Journal four days earlier, so the two are not independent. Medium as trade press. The held copy omits site menus and related-article links and replaces the editor's address.
  • Watercraft Journal Hydro-Turf sale 2020 (watercraftjournal.com): Hydro-Turf Acquired by Greg Pickren of SBT, Inc., Watercraft Superstore, by Kevin Shaw (The Watercraft Journal, 22 October 2020), The Watercraft Journal, 2020-10-22; enthusiast media, medium. The magazine's report of the sale, with the press release printed in full. The editor's lead says the sale ends Arno Olbricht's position as CEO; the release itself calls him the founder. Medium as trade press; the release is the parties' voice, and the editor's praise of the brand is not used. The held copy omits site menus.
  • IJSBA SBT lead title sponsor 2025 and 2026 (ijsba.com): Short Block Technologies Signs As 2025 And 2026 World Finals Lead Title Sponsor (IJSBA news post, 25 November 2024), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2024-11-25; sanctioning body, high. The association's announcement, read on 2026-10-05, of the lead title sponsor for the 2025 and 2026 World Finals. It also says the sponsor had signed to supply new powertrains to Lee Stone Products' turnkey Revolver S1 freestyle watercraft. High for what the association says; the sponsor's own descriptions are not used.
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