Welcome to the Twin Vee PowerCats Company Second Quarter 2023 Investor Call. As a reminder, this call is being recorded and all participants are in a listen-only mode. Your speaker for today's program is Joseph Visconti, President and CEO of Twin Vee PowerCats Company. Before I turn the call over to Joseph, please remember that certain statements made during this investor call are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements on this call, other than statements of historical facts, including statements regarding the company's future operations, financial position, business strategy and plans and objectives of management for future operations, are forward-looking statements. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by terminologies such as believe, may, estimate, continue, anticipate, intend, should, plan, expects, predicts, potential or the negative of these terms or similar expressions. The company has based these forward-looking statements largely on our current expectations and projections about future events and financial trends that it believes may affect its financial condition, results of operations, business strategy and financial needs. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties and assumptions described, including those set forth in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available on our website at www.twinvee.com. You should not rely upon forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. We cannot assure you that these events or circumstances reflected in the forward-looking statements will be achieved or occur. Finally, this conference is being webcast. The webcast will be available in the Investor Relations section of our website at ir.twinvee.com for at least 90 days. Audiocast quality is subject to your equipment, available bandwidth and Internet traffic. If you experience unsatisfactory audio quality, please use the telephone dial-in option. A question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. [Operator Instructions] I will now turn the call over to Joseph Visconti.

Hello, everyone. My name is Joseph Visconti, I'm the President and CEO of Twin Vee PowerCats. I'm joined on the call with Carrie Gunnerson, Twin Vee's CFO; and Jim Leffew, the President and CEO of Forza X1, our electric boat company. Jim is on the call due to his leadership role, specifically for the opening and ramping of our Aquasport plant in Tennessee. Good morning, and thank you for joining our second quarter 2023 investor call. Twin Vee designs, manufactures and sells a range of catamaran sport boats from our factory located in Fort Pierce, Florida. For nearly 30 years, the Twin Vee brand has been synonymous with offshore catamaran boats and is considered by many to be one of the best riding boats on the water. We are pleased to report an 18% increase in top line revenue to $17 million for the six months ended June 30, 2023, and compared to $14,400,000 in the same period of 2022. If you break out our main production in our facility in Fort Pierce, Florida where we manufacture 100% of all Twin Vee boats and our two new models of our Aquasport, our 22-footer, we had a net loss of $234,000 for the six months in 2023. This $234,000 loss is compared to a net loss of $554,000 for the same period in 2022. Twin Vee net of Forza X1 had cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash and marketable securities of approximately $11,434,000 as of June 30, 2023. The reportable larger loss of the $2.5 million for the six months ended June 30, 2023, is a direct reflection of Twin Vee's majority ownership and Forza X1, the electric boat company, which we own 44% of -- and it's our Twin Vee's requirement according to GAAP accounting that we have to consolidate…

Thanks you. [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from the line of Josh Horowitz with Palm Ventures.

Hi, Joseph. Good morning.

Good morning.

Great job on everything you said with scaling back and keeping an eye on the inventory and stuff. My question is, I guess, could you give a little bit more color on how the reopening and ramping of the Aquasport production facility is coming?

Thank you. So Jim Leffew, you're -- our President and CEO of Forza is spending a couple of days a week over in Tennessee. I'd like to bring Jim on to talk specifically about the opening and ramping of that facility.

Yes. Thanks, Joseph, and thanks for the question, Josh. A quick update on our Aquasport facility. As many of you know, we have taken over the operations of the former, Ebbtide Holdings and White Bluff, Tennessee. It's a 150,000 square foot facility, including the molds and the trademarks for the Aquasport brand. To date, we have hired approximately 35 people since June 1. In June, we started the cleanup and rehabilitation of the factory and began actual production in July. We expect to be able to ship probably up to eight boats by the end of August from the White Bluff facility. We will settle into two boats per week for the remainder of the year, September through December, and then we will look to ramp up faster at the turn of the year in January. One of the biggest initiatives we have will be to develop a full line of boats, including bay boats, offshore center and dual consoles and possibly even flats boats. We have a really aggressive new product plan that will be implemented over the next five years. But so far so good with the start-up, we're excited about it, and we should ship our first set of units here shortly in the month of August. I hope that answers your question. Q - Josh Horowitz Yes, very good. Thank you so much.

Josh, I'd like to add, we set out -- we did the Aquasport deal. And then we had our dealer meeting in West Palm. And we -- it was just absolutely amazing kind of the positive feedback we got. I mean we've signed these dealers. I mean, this is in the face of a pretty tough market. And I mean, we're feeling it a little bit on the Twin Vee side. But Aquasport, there's a lot of dealers out there that are looking for new opportunity. There's other larger boat brands that got caught up, delivering very expensive premium boats, and nobody was really kind of catering the value-based buyer anymore. And so the opportunity with Aquasport was a ready-made production facility. The previous owners did a fairly decent job with tooling. We talked about it in previous calls, there were seven legacy models ready to go. I mean nothing is easy, but Jim Leffew's background at Maverick Boat Group, he was the head of all of production for that facility for over 25 years, building 1,700 boats a year. So Jim's assembling a team of some of the old office boat employees have come back, leaders, managers, workers. So it's just a really great opportunity for us to build a monohull brand and also as a public company, continue to have kind of increased revenues and deliver margins. So again, thank you for the question.

Thank you, guys.

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Our next question comes from the line of Raj Maheshwari with Charleston Capital. Please proceed with your question.

Hello. Good morning, Joseph. Good morning, Jim. Thank you for taking my question. I just wondered, as you look out to '24, what does -- is there any way to gauge what 2024 looks like? Is it starting -- are things starting to bottom out on a macro point of view? And maybe some guidance as to the combined Aquasport and Twin Vee companies. Thank you.

I could tell you that we currently are hitting numbers out of our Fort Pierce facility. That's with our Twin or -- can you hear me okay?

Now I can.

With our -- in our Fort Pierce facility with our legacy Twin Vee boats plus our two additional Aquasport model, the 22-center console and dual console, we are hitting last year's revenue numbers, which are about $35 million on an annual run rate. And so as we kind of bring on Aquasport with Jim's numbers like two boats a week, I think that kind of adds to where -- so $35 million plus this additional Aquasport revenue, I think is where we will finish out the year, which is good. It's higher than it was last year. And that's in the face of some pretty tough headwinds, higher interest rates. Some of the buyers -- the plumber, the electrician that we're buying a $100,000 boat and the payment was $500, that same payment is $1,000, $1,100 now. And that buyer -- we're seeing them move to the boat clubs or coming up with an alternative summer strategy with the family.

Yes. And if I can add a little bit to that for Raj, I think one of the questions was how do we view the macro and do we see any signs of bottoming? This is mostly anecdotal information. But we are getting feedback from some of our dealers that there's increased traffic on the showroom floors and people are starting to buy again. I think the -- they've gotten used to some of the higher rates and some people that don't need to finance are still buying. We are also hearing from our dealers and looking at the SSI data, that -- one of the best-performing segments in Marine right now is the saltwater fishing boat segment. So some of the other segments of the market are down much more, but it seems like we're in a pocket of strength in saltwater fishing. So that's a good thing for us. Obviously, there's no way of knowing for sure, but some of the preliminary signs. I don't want to call them green shoots look like they're getting a little bit better.

So have you started to plan for the 2023 -- for the 2024 calendar year budget yet? Or is it still too early?

Well, we've got our forecast. I went through -- so we have a forecast number of 150 Aquasport boats that's been forecasted from our new Aquasport dealer network. So we've got 150 boats there. And we've got a baseline of 120 Twin Vee boats. 100 of those are from OneWater, and we need to finish collecting our forecasted numbers from our other Twin Vee. As you know, the marine industry celebrates the model year change in July. So it's all happening right now when we're working with our dealers, we're getting our forecasted numbers and planning 2024. So I mean the numbers look good right now. I mean I don't want to pinpoint an exact revenue number, but I think it's important that we get the Aquasport Tennessee plant online, in addition to what's happening in Fort Pierce. I think we've got a bright future.

Excellent. Thank you, Joseph.

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Mr. Visconti, I'm seeing no other questions in queue. I'll turn the floor back to you for any final comments.

I want to thank everyone for participating today, and we appreciate our stakeholders and shareholders and the confidence and support you've given us. So thank you and everybody have a great day. Thank you.

Thank you. This concludes today's conference call. You may disconnect your lines at this time. Thank you for your participation.