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Krash Industries

An Australian maker of freeride and freestyle hulls and complete skis, which by its own account it builds around its KV997 two-stroke engine, reported in the trade press from 2017.

At a glance

Kind
Maker
Made
hulls, engine parts
On the record
2 years, from 2017 to 2018
People
Nick Barton (founder)
In the archive
4 links
Years 2017 to 2018, one box each A single row of boxes, solid for a year printed above a fact and hollow for a year printed above none. 2017 2018
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Printed above the facts, 2017 and 2018.

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

2017 · Likely

The Watercraft Journal reported on 24 March 2017 that Krash Industries, which it called a freeride and freestyle aftermarket hull manufacturer and whose owner and founder it named as Nick Barton, was offering a new two-cylinder two-stroke engine, the KV997, with no parts compatible with Yamaha's, and that the engine would power a complete range of watercraft the company was preparing to launch. The account of the engine and of the planned range is the maker's own.

Sources: Watercraft Journal Krash KV997 2017

2017 · Likely

On its founder's account, The Watercraft Journal reported on 12 April 2017 that Krash was taking pre-orders for a ready-to-ride ski, that its hulls, the Reaper, Predator and 50 Cal, would keep being made in Thailand while the skis were assembled in Australia, and that its JB-1 hulls had been launched six years earlier.

Sources: Watercraft Journal Krash ski 2017

2018 · Likely

The Watercraft Journal's report of 23 January 2018 on the Daytona Freeride says that among the new products at the event Krash Industries and its customers had RTP (Ready-To-Perform) 997cc Kavinci setups, and that its staff rode a 50 Cal RTP on the Sunday, thanks to a rider from Minnesota.

Sources: WCJ 23 Jan 2018 Daytona new products

On the race sheets

2017 · Likely

The Watercraft Journal reported on 29 May 2017, from a post on the company's own social media page that it links, that two riders it called Krash Industries' Australian riders took part in Round 3 of the International Freeride Watercraft Association's European Championship at Nazare, Portugal, and that neither reached the podium. It quoted the Krash Industries website on two 50 Cal models, one for surf and one for flatwater freestyle, which is the company's own account.

Sources: WCJ 29 May 2017 Krash riders at Nazare

The business on record

2018 · Likely

In The Watercraft Journal's interview of 15 November 2018, the company's national sales manager says Krash Industries began in 2008 as an aftermarket hull builder and launched its turn-key craft, Ready To Perform, around 2014, that RIVA Motorsports would become a direct sales dealer and manage its dealer network, and that its first event was the 2018 World Finals, where it displayed beside RIVA Racing. These are the company's own words.

Sources: Watercraft Journal Krash dealers 2018

Elsewhere in the archive

What the archive has not read (2)

  • No held document says that Krash Industries and K2K Holdings are one company (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-19), so the KRASH mark registered to K2K Holdings and Stockhead's 2019 report on K2K Holdings are not used. An Australian Business Register page that the archive does not hold lists the business name Krash Industries under a different company name from 10 November 2015; it is not used either, because the tie rests on the name alone.
  • The 2008 start and the 2014 date for the first complete ski rest on the company's own account, and the April 2017 report presents a ready-to-ride ski as new, so no held text settles when the first complete ski was made (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-19).

Documents cited on this page

  • Watercraft Journal Krash KV997 2017 (watercraftjournal.com): Videos: Krash Industries Introduces All-New KV997 Two-Stroke Engine, by Kevin Shaw (The Watercraft Journal, 24 March 2017), The Watercraft Journal, 2017-03-24; enthusiast media, medium. The magazine's report, under its editor-in-chief's name, on a hull maker's new two-cylinder two-stroke engine. Its lead calls Nick Barton the maker's owner and founder in the magazine's own voice, and the body quotes him on the engine's design. Medium as trade press for who is named and what he is quoted as saying; the engine's specification and the reasons given for it are the maker's. The held copy omits site menus, comments and the author note.
  • Watercraft Journal Krash ski 2017 (watercraftjournal.com): Krash Industries Introduces The First Turn-Key Freeride Ski (The Watercraft Journal, 12 April 2017), The Watercraft Journal, 2017-04-12; enthusiast media, medium. A trade report on a hull maker's complete freeride ski, which in passing calls Steve Laham the founder and owner of Butch's Ski Shop and reports the maker's account of his help with US dealers. Medium as trade press.
  • WCJ 23 Jan 2018 Daytona new products (watercraftjournal.com): Gallery: 2018 Braap Werks Daytona Freeride, Presented by Pro Watercross (The Watercraft Journal, 23 January 2018), the new products paragraph, The Watercraft Journal, 2018-01-23; enthusiast media, medium. A second excerpt of the magazine's report of the 2018 Daytona Freeride: its paragraph on the new products seen at the event, written by its own staff from what they saw and rode. Medium.
  • WCJ 29 May 2017 Krash riders at Nazare (watercraftjournal.com): Krash Industries Team Riders Euro Tour in Nazare (The Watercraft Journal, 29 May 2017), The Watercraft Journal, 2017-05-29; enthusiast media, medium. A short magazine item on two of a hull maker's riders at the third round of the IFWA European freeride championship at Nazare, Portugal, with a passage it quotes from the maker's website. Medium for the event; the quoted passage is the maker's own.
  • Watercraft Journal Krash dealers 2018 (watercraftjournal.com): Seven Deadly Questions: Krash Industries on New Dealers (The Watercraft Journal, 15 November 2018), The Watercraft Journal, 2018-11-15; enthusiast media, medium. An interview with the company's National Sales Manager on a dealer network for its complete freeride and freestyle skis. Medium as trade press for who was interviewed and what he said; the start in 2008 as a hull builder and the launch of complete skis around 2014 are the company's account of itself and low as history.
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