Goodwinds.com has purchased competitor Avia Sport Composites and is currently moving all of Avia’s business assets to Goodwinds’ Mount Vernon location.  Avia was located in Hickory, North Carolina and was in business for 15 years.  We have already hired our first couple of employees, and we’ll introduce them to you here within the next few days.  They are great guys and doing an excellent job cutting carbon!

Kurt Degener, owner of Avia Sport Composites, has decided to retire from business to pursue personal interests and world travel.  He asked Goodwinds to purchase Avia because of the high level of service Goodwinds can offer to former Avia customers.  We want to make sure that this transition is smooth, but we know it will be a bit of a bumpy ride.  We have already ordered far more carbon than we have ever kept in stock before – this means that within a few weeks, we will very likely always have lots of inventory of even the most obscure sizes of carbon!  Additionally, we now own several proprietary Avia connectors and fittings, as well as the G-Force wrapped carbon tubes.  We will begin new production on the connectors and tubes as soon as possible.

To accomodate all the new orders, we have added additional warehouse space and a dedicated cutting area across the parking lot from our current location. 

We at Goodwinds.com are excited about this new stage of business and we are confident that we can continue to offer excellent service.  Visit www.goodwinds.com for more information on Goodwinds as well as the fine carbon and fiberglass offered.

Leland and Alli

One of the great things about Goodwinds is that it’s always “Bring Your Dog to Work Day” around here. 

Alli is Roger & Jane’s dog, and she is a 35 pound Carolina Dog, or American Dingo.  She’s very sweet and eager to please, and she especially loves elderly women (perhaps because my grandma was always so gentle with her and always had a pocket full of treats).  Before becoming a retired working dog with an occasional stint at Goodwinds when she comes to visit, Alli went to work every day with our parents and greeted guests in their motel in Long Beach, WA.

Buster is my dog.  Well, he’s our family dog, and he loves Leland and my parents, too, but he’s really my dog.  Or maybe I’m his human?  Buster is an 80 pound mutt, likely a Rottweiler-Chow Chow mix, along with some other breeds, as well.  He is furry and happy, and he loves to play with his “sister,” Alli.  He especially loves playing in the water and chasing the spray from a hose.  He and my 13-month-old get along great, especially because Charles issues a nearly-endless supply of “treats” from his high chair during meals.

I frequently bring Buster to work with me – it beats staying at home alone or in his kennel, and we have been having some pretty cold weather lately.  Yes, he sports a thick fur coat, but I still worry about him outside.  He finds ways to amuse himself when he’s not greeting customers at Goodwinds: