Dave Nickelson founded ROST Marine and developed the “SKIMM-IT trash boat” in Forest Lake, MN. Dave has been a lover of boats his whole life, particularly sailboats. Dave had a custom vinyl coating and molding company for 28 years and was involved in many product developments, so he had a lot of practice at developing products. In that company, he designed and built a lot of machinery because there were no suppliers of vinyl dip coating and molding machines.