Pacific Seacraft

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Pacific Seacraft Corporation is a Washington, North Carolina based sailboat manufacturer specializing in fiberglass monohull cruising boats. Pacific Seacraft is best known for producing the Crealock line of sailboats. These are heavy, overbuilt offshore cruising designs designed by William Crealock. Crealocks are distinctive due to their overhanging canoe sterns, traditional lines, and lack of bowsprit. Pacific Seacraft sailboats have been featured in both volumes of Ferenc Mate's The World's Best Sailboats and are considered to be among the highest quality sailing yachts still in production. Fortune Magazine twice selected Pacific Seacraft as a producer of America's 100 best products.1

While headquartered in California, the company filed for chapter 11 protection from its creditors in May 2007. The company's assets, with the exception of the Saga line of sailboats which went to Toronto, and the Dana 24 molds, were purchased at a bankruptcy auction September 2007 and moved in their entirety to Washington, N.C. where it will be continued under the new ownership of marine archeologist Stephen Brodie.

Brodie spent $85,000 at the auction to buy the company name, boat molds, tools and five sailboat hulls. The sailboats, which measure 31 feet to 44 feet, cost $250,000 to $1 million each.

It cost more to move Pacific Seacraft than it did to buy it, but Brodie used a Beaufort County company — Deep Water Transport of Washington — and got started right away.

Brodie once worked with the International Institute for Maritime Research on historic vessel restorations. He is a marine archaeologist that searches and documents shipwrecks. Some of that work includes recovery efforts on Queen Anne’s Revenge — better known as the pirate Blackbeard’s ship — and the Confederate ship CSS Alabama off the coast of France.

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1 Brands
2 Models
3 References
4 See also

[edit] Brands

Ericson Yachts
Pacific Seacraft
Orion
Crealock

[edit] Models

Flicka 20
Dana 24
Orion 27
Crealock 37
Ericson 34
Ercison 38
Pacific Seacraft 25
Pacific Seacraft 31
Pacific Seacraft 31 Mariah
Pacific Seacraft 34
Pacific Seacraft 37
Pacific Seacraft 377
Pacific Seacraft 40
Pacific Seacraft 44
Pacific Seacraft Pilot House Sloops

[edit] References

1. Venture Yachts [1] 2. Flicka 20 Home Page [2] 3. Simmons, Tim; Bargain hunter buys boat business: Pacific Seacraft moves to Beaufort; The News & Observer; Volume MMVII; issue 1289; page 1D; October 16, 2007; http://www.newsobserver.com