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Rickter-RRP

A maker of Rickter freestyle and freeride hulls and complete skis that, by its own 2023 release, built hulls at a factory in Thailand until a halt, and printed as a team on World Cup freestyle sheets.

• a year printed above a fact on this page
• a year printed above no fact

Printed above the facts, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2023. Printed above none, 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2020 to 2022.

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What it made and sold

2013 · Likely

The Watercraft Journal, introducing a factory-tour video hosted by Rick Roy on 30 December 2013, wrote that Rick Roy and RRP had launched their own hulls and complete ski designs more than a handful of years earlier, named six Rickter models, the FS, FR, RC, XFR, XFS and Ninja, and said a new RRP factory in Thailand was building carbon-fibre and glass-fibre hulls by hand.

Sources: Watercraft Journal RRP factory 2013

2016 · Likely

A release of 2 May 2016 by TeXtreme, a supplier of carbon-fibre fabric, says Rickter-RRP launched its 2016 models with TeXtreme reinforcement as an option on the EDGE FS, EDGE FR, XFS and RC-1 and as standard on the XFS NINJA Competition, quotes Rick Roy as founder and owner, and says Rickter also makes reinforced exhaust chambers, hood scoops, ride plates and flow guards.

Sources: TeXtreme Rickter release 2016

Patents and trademarks

2023 · Likely

The RICKTER mark for personal watercraft hulls and related composite parts was filed on 19 June 2023 and registered on 2 July 2024 to RICKTER R.R.P. PERFORMANCE INC., a Canadian corporation. The registrant claims first use on 31 October 2008. No held document names Rick Roy or Rickter-RRP as the registrant (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-16); the archive reads the registrant as this company from the name Rickter R.R.P., an inference.

Sources: USPTO RICKTER mark

On the race sheets

2012, 2013, 2018 and 2019 · Confirmed

Race sheets print the name. The association's 2012 World Finals results page prints RICKTER RRP in riders' sponsor columns; the overall standings of the 2013 Alpen Adria Cup print Rickter as a rider's machine in its Pro Am Freestyle class; and the Jet Ski World Cup's Pro Freestyle sheets, marked provisional, print USA / RICKTER as country and team for the first- and fourth-placed riders in 2018 and the third-placed rider in 2019.

Sources: 2012 World Finals page 1007; Alpen Adria Cup 2013 overall; World Cup 2018 Pro Freestyle sheet; World Cup 2019 Pro Freestyle sheet

The business on record

2023 · Likely

The Watercraft Journal printed on 2 May 2023 a release of 26 April 2023 from Rick Roy Products announcing the end of Rickter hull production at the Rickter Composites factory in Thailand, a business the release says it opened with a partner. The release calls the halt temporary, says it was evaluating options for manufacturing with new partners, and says the RRP parts division was not affected. The magazine's own introduction says Roy first developed an adjustable handlepole and then his own line of stand-up and fixed-seat skis under the name Rick Roy Products.

Sources: Watercraft Journal RRP Thailand 2023

Names as printed

RICKTER R.R.P. PERFORMANCE INC. (USPTO RICKTER mark); Rick Roy Products (Watercraft Journal RRP Thailand 2023); RRP (Watercraft Journal RRP factory 2013); RICKTER (World Cup 2018 Pro Freestyle sheet)

Elsewhere in the archive

• History chapter: The aftermarket: hulls, rule books and closures
• Event: IJSBA World Finals
• Organisation: International Jet Sports Boating Association
• Era: The rule book years
• Era: Three rule books, 2021 to 2026

What the archive has not read (2)

• No held document dates Rickter's first hull; the registrant's claimed first use of 31 October 2008 and the 2013 report's more than a handful of years are the only dates (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-16).
• No held document says where Rickter hulls were made after the halt announced in April 2023 (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-16).

Documents cited on this page

• USPTO RICKTER mark (tsdr.uspto.gov): RICKTER, US trademark registration 7432962, serial 98048582 (USPTO TSDR status), United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2024-07-02; government, high. The registry's status page for the RICKTER mark, for personal watercraft hulls and related composite parts: filed 19 June 2023, registered 2 July 2024, owner Rickter R.R.P. Performance Inc., organised in Canada. The first use of 31 October 2008 is the owner's sworn claim. Owner and correspondence addresses are removed from the held copy.
• Watercraft Journal RRP factory 2013 (watercraftjournal.com): Video: Rick Roy Gives Us The RRP Factory Tour (The Watercraft Journal), The Watercraft Journal, 2013-12-30; enthusiast media, medium. A short trade report introducing a factory video: RRP's own hulls and complete skis, the Rickter model names, and a new factory in Thailand. Medium as trade press; the video itself was not viewed.
• TeXtreme Rickter release 2016 (prnewswire.com): Rickter Launches New Personal Watercraft Line Reinforced by TeXtreme (TeXtreme press release, PR Newswire), TeXtreme (Oxeon AB), distributed by PR Newswire, 2016-05-02; manufacturer primary, medium. A carbon-fibre supplier's release on Rickter's 2016 line, quoting Rick Roy as founder and owner of Rickter-RRP, with an About Rickter paragraph in the companies' promotional voice. Medium for who it names and the models it lists; its grades of Rickter and of him are not repeated.
• 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.
• Alpen Adria Cup 2013 overall (web.archive.org): Alpen Adria Cup 2013, overall standings of the four rounds (PDF hosted by ejml.ee, Wayback capture), not printed on the sheet; hosted by Eesti Jeti ja Mootorkelgu Liit, 2013; editorial, medium. The series' overall table by class, with points from the rounds headed GER, HUN, POL and AUT and a total, and for each rider a number, nation, machine and sponsors. The sheet prints ALPEN ADRIA CUP 2013 and no body, organiser or date; the copy held is the one the Estonian federation hosted, read from a plain-text extract of that PDF, which this archive also holds. The results document itself, but with no issuer printed, so medium. In this extract last names can sit a row off their first names in some classes; a row is read only where the whole rider sits on one line.
• World Cup 2018 Pro Freestyle sheet (jetski-worldcup.com): Thai Airways International Jet Ski World Cup 2018, Pro Freestyle, result sheet (image, transcribed), Jet Ski World Cup Grand Prix Co., Ltd (jetski-worldcup.com), 2018-12-09; sanctioning body, high. The organiser's signed result sheet for Pro Freestyle at the event of 6 to 9 December 2018, printed 9 December 2018, with run totals, points and final positions. An image on the live site (the archive has the page but not the image); the held text is a transcription made by reading it.
• World Cup 2019 Pro Freestyle sheet (jetski-worldcup.com): Thai Airways International Jet Ski World Cup 2019, Pro Freestyle, result sheet (image, transcribed), Jet Ski World Cup Grand Prix Co., Ltd (jetski-worldcup.com), 2019-12-08; sanctioning body, high. The organiser's signed result sheet for Pro Freestyle at the event of 5 to 8 December 2019, printed 8 December 2019. An image on the live site; the held text is a transcription made by reading it.
• Watercraft Journal RRP Thailand 2023 (watercraftjournal.com): Rick Roy Products (RRP) Ceases Rickter Production at Thailand Facility (The Watercraft Journal), The Watercraft Journal, 2023-05-02; enthusiast media, medium. A trade report printing in full RRP's release of 26 April 2023 on the end of Rickter hull production in Thailand. Medium for the magazine's own lines; the release inside it is the company's voice.

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