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Gary Hart
Named by the IJSBA in 2014 as the founder of Jettrim, a maker of stitched seat covers and foot mats for watercraft, and credited by the association with the work behind the Jettrim Vintage Ski Museum at its World Finals
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Business
The International Jet Sports Boating Association (IJSBA), announcing on 11 September 2014 that Jettrim had signed as an associate presenting sponsor of its World Finals, describes Jettrim's hand stitched seat covers and foot mats for watercraft and says the company was founded by IJSBA Hall Of Famer, Gary Hart.
Sources: IJSBA World Finals update Sept 2014
The association's announcement of 2 July 2021 that Jettrim would title-sponsor the 40th anniversary World Finals says, in a passage the archive reads as Jettrim's own account of itself, that Jettrim began when master upholstery stitcher Gary Hart recognized that the new Jet-Ski product could benefit from his craft and began stitching custom accessories, and that by 1983 he had formed Jettrim.
The Watercraft Journal's report of 27 August 2014 from inside Skat-Trak names Gary Hart of Jettrim in a remark it attributes to Skat-Trak's business office manager about a custom 650SX in the company's warehouses. The archive reads this Gary Hart as Jettrim's founder from the name and the company, an inference. The held text names him nowhere else (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-19).
Organising the sport
The IJSBA's post of 5 August 2014, announcing that the Jettrim Vintage Ski Museum would return at that year's World Finals as a community managed exhibit, says the museum would not have been possible without the hard work of Jettrim's Gary Hart; the update of 11 September 2014 credits Jettrim with creating the Vintage Ski Museum. Neither gives a year for his work on it (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-19).
Sources: IJSBA Jettrim museum post August 2014; IJSBA World Finals update Sept 2014
Recognition
The IJSBA's hall of fame roster lists Gary Hart among its inductees of 2010. The association's update of 11 September 2014 calls Jettrim's founder IJSBA Hall Of Famer Gary Hart, and its post of 5 August 2014 calls Jettrim's Gary Hart a hall of fame inductee, which ties the roster's name to him.
Sources: IJSBA hall of fame page; IJSBA World Finals update Sept 2014; IJSBA Jettrim museum post August 2014
Elsewhere in the archive
- Event: IJSBA World Finals
- Organisation: International Jet Sports Boating Association
What the archive has not read (1)
- No document read dates his own work at Jettrim or on the museum to a year; the 1983 in the association's 2021 passage is the company's account (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-19).
Documents cited on this page
- IJSBA World Finals update Sept 2014 (ijsba.com): Third Pre-2014 Jettribe World Finals Update (IJSBA news post dated 11 September 2014), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2014-09-11; sanctioning body, high. The association's update a month before its 2014 World Finals. It says Blake Corning would come to Lake Havasu the next week to begin readying the event's grounds and was entering its hall of fame that year, and that the sponsor Jettrim was founded by a hall of fame member it names as Gary Hart. High for the association's own event and sponsor. The held copy is an excerpt.
- IJSBA Jettrim 2021 post founding passage (ijsba.com): Jettrim To Title Sponsor 40th Anniversary World Finals On Two Year Commitment (IJSBA news post, 2 July 2021), the passage on how Jettrim began, International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2021-07-02; sanctioning body, medium. A second excerpt of the association's 2021 sponsorship announcement (the row ijsba-jettrim-title-sponsor-2021 holds its other paragraphs), keeping the passage on how Jettrim began. It is the sponsor's story as the association tells it in a sponsorship announcement, so medium, and it supports "says" only. The held copy is an excerpt.
- Watercraft Journal Skat-Trak visit 2014 (watercraftjournal.com): Spin Doctors: Inside Skat-Trak Performance Products, by Kevin Shaw (The Watercraft Journal, 27 August 2014), The Watercraft Journal, 2014-08-27; enthusiast media, medium. A visit to the company's Calimesa headquarters. Medium as trade press for what the author saw and was told; the company's account of its own age and history is low. The 2014 visit is held as an extract.
- IJSBA Jettrim museum post August 2014 (ijsba.com): Jettrim Vintage Ski Museum Returns For 2014 As Community Run Exhibit (IJSBA news post, 5 August 2014), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2014-08-05; sanctioning body, high. The association's announcement that the Jettrim Vintage Ski Museum would return at its 2014 World Finals as a community managed exhibit, crediting the museum to the work of Jettrim's Gary Hart. High for the association's own event; its praise is the association's wording and is not used. The held copy is an excerpt.
- IJSBA hall of fame page (ijsba.com): The Jacobsen-Stjernstrom IJSBA Hall of Fame (IJSBA page), International Jet Sports Boating Association; sanctioning body, high. The association's own roster, read on 22 September 2026, giving the hall's name, its creation and dedication in 2006, and inductees by year to 2014, names only. It publishes no selection criteria and no citation for anyone.
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“Gary Hart”, BaddJet archive, https://baddjetarchive.com/key-figures/gary-hart/
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