Anyone know this boat?

[Brett]

Poor guy looks like he is already out to pasture. Looks similar to seacraft but I don't recognize the windows. Any ideas?

http://daytona.craigslist.org/bar/4658913967.html

[flyingfrizzle]

I have seen those seafari look a likes before posted up here but forget the make, Not bad amount for the trailer and parts motor tho if you trashed the bote. I got several ol boats out to pasture too and have 5 boats or so I would be glad to give away if someone wanted to pull them away. (No seacrafts a course)

[Terry England]

I think it is an old Wellcraft Coastal.

[DonV]

Yes it is and guaranteed to have structural problems......don't ask me how I know.

[ScottM]

Appears to be a Wellcraft 248 Sportsman.

[Bushwacker]

Originally Posted by DonV

Yes it is and guaranteed to have structural problems......don't ask me how I know.

Don't know about the 80's vintage boats, but I know of a half dozen 70's vintage V-20's that busted up with big cracks in the hull, including one that made a Bahamas trip with me! Our 4 hour crossing in 6-8' seas loosened a few screws in the bulkhead of my Seafari, but it nearly destroyed my friends V-20! His seats disintegrated, his saddle tanks broke loose at the welds, there was a big crack in the bulkhead, and when he got it out on the trailer, he found a 4' crack in the hull!

Turns out that the bottom of the plywood stringers weren't even cut at an angle to match the hull deadrise! They just put a square corner against the hull and then one layer of glass to tab the stringers to the hull! Another engineering friend of mine had one that came apart, so he tore it apart and rebuilt it. He said it looked like they didn't adequately saturate the plywood, so all the resin soaked into the stringers and away from the glass, and then the tabbing came loose from the stringers so they were just flopping around loose in the hull! First sign of a problem was that the floor would flex running over a small wake in the ICW! You couldn't GIVE me a Wellcraft!

[RidgeRunner]

You can give me one. Another one in fact to match my Circa 1983 Factory production to be sure but what a sweet hull. To each his own. 20' Scepter to a 20' Wellcraft is no camparison on interior space. In fact the 20 Wellcraft Cuddy has nearly what the 23 Scepter/ Tsunami has for cockpit space and that is why they are loved by so many. The little Wellcraft has seen a little of everything in the last 30 years. BTW- No sign of cracked hull or stringers causing hard spots, they went grid in about 1980, workmanship still sucked to be sure. Mine is a 60 MPH center console that I beat on fairly hard. Give me another one and I would do the same all over. Had they made the thing any better they would have gone out of business sooner.. err..

[WildBill]

Wellcraft Coastal (circa 1986 I think)