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Short Block Technologies

A Florida maker of rebuilt and new personal watercraft engines, signed as the World Finals title sponsor from 2023, and owner of the ADONIS impeller mark.

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Printed above the facts, 2005, 2016, 2017, 2020 and 2022 to 2025. Printed above none, 2006 to 2015, 2018, 2019 and 2021. 1 fact has no year printed above it and marks no box.

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What it made and sold

2024 · Confirmed

The association's post of 25 November 2024 describes the company as a maker of rebuilt personal watercraft engines sold ready to install, part of a group that includes BlackTip Jetsports, Hydro-Turf, Adonis Impellers and the Watercraft Superstore, and says it had signed to supply new powertrains for a turnkey freestyle watercraft.

Sources: IJSBA SBT lead title sponsor 2025 and 2026

2016 · Likely

The Watercraft Journal, in an article of 16 March 2016 on a recent visit, described the company's remanufacturing floor and its engine dynamometer, on which, its President said, every four-stroke engine was run before leaving the company.

Sources: Watercraft Journal SBT dyno 2016

2017 and 2024 · Confirmed

The Watercraft Journal reported on 12 June 2017, from an SBT press release and an interview with its President, that SBT had developed its own versions of the Yamaha 1.1-litre and Sea-Doo 1.5-litre four-stroke engines over three years, and that the programme had been launched the previous year. PersonalWatercraft.com wrote in July 2024 that SBT offered its own line of new engines beside remanufactured ones.

Sources: Watercraft Journal SBT engines 2017; PersonalWatercraft.com repowering 2024

Patents and trademarks

2022 and 2023 · Confirmed

Short Block Technologies, Inc., a Florida corporation, filed the ADONIS mark on 10 August 2022 for personal watercraft engine parts, namely impellers, and it was registered on 26 September 2023. The registrant claims first use on 2 August 2016.

Sources: USPTO record serial 97543332

The business on record

2023, 2024 and 2025 · Confirmed

The association announced on 16 May 2023 that Short Block Technologies had signed as title sponsor of the World Finals for 2023 and 2024, and on 25 November 2024 that it had signed as lead title sponsor for 2025 and 2026. The association's results of 11 October 2025 are headed 2025 SBT World Finals.

Sources: IJSBA SBT title sponsor 2023 and 2024; IJSBA SBT lead title sponsor 2025 and 2026; 2025 World Finals results 11 October

2005 · Likely

Trade Only Today reported on 23 April 2010 that SBT, which it calls an online retailer of personal watercraft engines, parts and accessories, had acquired the forum PWCToday in 2005.

Sources: Trade Only Today PWCToday 2010

Likely

The Watercraft Journal wrote in March and October 2016 that Greg Pickren founded SBT, Inc. in 1997, and the association's post of 16 May 2023 says the company was formed in 1997 by Greg Pickren. None of them cites a registry, and each may repeat the company's own telling.

Sources: Watercraft Journal SBT dyno 2016; Watercraft Journal SBT Marine Mat 2016; IJSBA SBT title sponsor 2023 and 2024

2016, 2017, 2020 and 2024 · Confirmed

The Watercraft Journal in 2016 and 2017, Engine Builder in April 2020 and PersonalWatercraft.com in July 2024 each call CJ Lammers the President of SBT.

Sources: Watercraft Journal SBT dyno 2016; Watercraft Journal SBT engines 2017; Engine Builder PWC market 2020; PersonalWatercraft.com repowering 2024

2020 · Likely

Powersports Business and The Watercraft Journal reported in October 2020, with the same quotations, that Greg Pickren, whom they call the owner of SBT and the Watercraft Superstore, had acquired Hydro-Turf from its founder; the association's post of May 2023 names Hydro-Turf as the most recent addition to SBT's group.

Sources: Powersports Business Hydro-Turf sale 2020; Watercraft Journal Hydro-Turf sale 2020; IJSBA SBT title sponsor 2023 and 2024

Names as printed

Short Block Technologies, Inc. (USPTO record serial 97543332); SBT (IJSBA SBT lead title sponsor 2025 and 2026); SBT, Inc. (Watercraft Journal SBT dyno 2016)

Elsewhere in the archive

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

What the archive has not read (1)

• No registry record of the company's formation is held; Florida's corporation search could not be read (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-16).

Documents cited on this page

• USPTO record serial 97543332 (tsdr.uspto.gov): Trademark Status and Document Retrieval record, serial 97543332, registration 7174016 (ADONIS), United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2023-09-26; government, high. ADONIS, filed 10 August 2022 and registered 26 September 2023, for personal watercraft engine parts, namely impellers. First use claimed for 2 August 2016. Owner Short Block Technologies, Inc., a Florida corporation. The published date is the registration date.
• 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.
• Watercraft Journal SBT dyno 2016 (watercraftjournal.com): Gallery: Inside SBT, Inc.'s 4-Stroke Engine Dyno Facility, by Brent Venderley (The Watercraft Journal, 16 March 2016), The Watercraft Journal, 2016-03-16; enthusiast media, medium. A shop-tour feature on a Clearwater, Florida engine remanufacturer, which says in the magazine's own voice that its founder, Greg Pickren, started it in 1997 and built it into a family of watercraft businesses, and quotes its President, CJ Lammers, on the dyno. Medium as trade press for who is named and in what role; the founding story reads like the company's telling, and the superlatives (largest supplier, number one) are not used. The held copy omits site menus.
• Watercraft Journal SBT engines 2017 (watercraftjournal.com): House of Power: SBT Develops Its Own Brand of 4-Stroke Engines, by Kevin Shaw (The Watercraft Journal, 12 June 2017), The Watercraft Journal, 2017-06-12; enthusiast media, medium. A feature on the Clearwater, Florida engine remanufacturer's decision to build its own four-stroke engines, which says in the magazine's voice that it interviewed the company's President by name and quotes him at length on when and why the programme began. Medium as trade press for who is named and what he is quoted as saying; the programme's dates and results are his account, and the praise (largest supplier) and the prices are not used. The held copy replaces the price.
• PersonalWatercraft.com repowering 2024 (personalwatercraft.com): Repowering Your PWC, by Jeff Hemmel (PersonalWatercraft.com, 15 July 2024), PersonalWatercraft.com, 2024-07-15; editorial, medium. A consumer article on replacement engines whose section on the aftermarket calls the Clearwater, Florida remanufacturer's head SBT President by name and quotes him on its remanufactured engines, its no-fault warranty and its own line of new engines. Medium as an independent publisher for who is named and what he is quoted as saying; the savings and prices are the company's and are not used. The held copy keeps the aftermarket section only and replaces the prices; the manufacturers' spokespeople named in the rest of the article are not in it.
• IJSBA SBT title sponsor 2023 and 2024 (ijsba.com): IJSBA Announces Short Block Technologies As Title Sponsor For 2023 And 2024 World Finals (IJSBA news post, 16 May 2023), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2023-05-16; sanctioning body, high. The association's announcement, read on 2026-10-05, that Short Block Technologies signed as title sponsor of the 2023 and 2024 World Finals. High for the sponsorship; the praise it prints for the sponsor, and the list of companies it says the sponsor's group owns, are not used.
• 2025 World Finals results 11 October (ijsba.com): 2025 SBT World Finals Results, October 11 (ijsba.com, 11 October 2025), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2025-10-11; sanctioning body, high. The association's own results post for 11 October 2025, read on its live site in a browser on 2026-10-16 (its scripted requests answer a captcha page). The Pro Am Runabout Stock table lists him second, 502, Yamaha, 134 points, behind Vanjae Ramgeet and ahead of Tory Snyder.
• Trade Only Today PWCToday 2010 (tradeonlytoday.com): PWC online forum marks 10 years (Trade Only Today, 23 April 2010), Trade Only Today, 2010-04-23; editorial, medium. A trade-news item on a watercraft forum's tenth year, which says an online retailer of engines and parts acquired the forum in 2005 from its founder and quotes the retailer's owner by name, and that the retailer's sister parts superstore was founded in 2008 and also owned by him. Medium as an independent trade publisher's item; the quotes are the owner's. The held copy is the text as read.
• Watercraft Journal SBT Marine Mat 2016 (watercraftjournal.com): On The Ground Level at SBT's New Marine Mat Headquarters, by Kevin Shaw (The Watercraft Journal, 20 October 2016), The Watercraft Journal, 2016-10-20; enthusiast media, medium. A shop-tour feature on a boat traction-mat company that says, in the magazine's own voice, that the same named founder launched SBT in 1997, then a parts superstore and a mat brand, and with its then general manager the idea for a boat-mat company, Marine Mat. Medium as trade press for who is named and what the magazine says he launched; the general manager's quotes are his, and the claims of being the largest supplier are not used. The Marine Mat feature of 2016 is held only in part.
• Engine Builder PWC market 2020 (enginebuildermag.com): Is the PWC Market Still Making Waves?, by Eric Garbe (Engine Builder, 24 April 2020), Engine Builder, 2020-04-24; editorial, medium. An engine-trade magazine's piece in which its writer says he called the President of SBT Inc. by name for information on the personal watercraft market and prints his answers. Medium as an independent trade publisher for who is named and what he is quoted as saying; the market figures and SBT's sales split are his account and are not used. The held text is an extract.
• 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. (as Watercraft Journal SBT dyno 2016 above)

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