Pacific Seacraft

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 which went to Portland OR, 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.

Brands

* Ericson Yachts
* Pacific Seacraft
* Orion
* Crealock

Models

* [http://www.flicka20.com Flicka 20]
* Dana 24
* Orion 27
* Crealock 37
* Ericson 32-3/333
* Ericson 34/350
* Ercison 38/380
* 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

References

* [http://www.pacificseacraft.com/PDF/Fortune.pdf Press Release]
* [http://www.pacificseacraft.com/Sailboats.htm Pacific Seacraft Website]
* [http://www.flicka20.com Flicka Website]
* [http://www.angusbeare.com/Sailing/Flicka/Caraway/tabid/359/Default.aspx Flicka Caraway Owner's Web Site]

1. Venture Yachts [http://www.ventureyachts.com/Evaluate.htm] 2. Flicka 20 Home Page [http://www.flicka20.com] 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

ee also

* List of sailboat designers and manufacturers
* Freedom Ship