Boat builder aims to ride big growth wave

The Panga has been called “the boat that changed the world.” And since 2002, Panga Marine has taken that revolutionary design and made it both functional and appealing for American boaters.

Kevin Prentice, the new owner and president of Sarasota-based Panga Marine, has big plans to build off that past success and get even more boaters behind the controls of a panga. “No one else in the U.S. makes anything like we do,” he says. “It’s a very versatile boat.”