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.{{Cite web |date=2013-09-20 |title=40 Best Sailboats, Types of Sailboats & Manufacturers {{!}} Cruising World |url=https://www.cruisingworld.com/sailboats/40-best-sailboats/ |access-date=2024-07-31 |language=en-US}} Crealocks are distinctive due to their overhanging 'canoe' sterns and traditional lines. Their sailboats have been featured in both volumes of Ferenc Máté's The World's Best Sailboats, and Fortune Magazine twice selected Pacific Seacraft as a producer of America's 100 best products.{{cite web|title=Featured Boat of the Week – Pacific Seacraft 31 Sloop!|url=http://www.waterlineboats.com/2011/featured-boat-of-the-week-pacific-seacraft-31-sloop/|publisher=waterlineboats.com|accessdate=7 June 2012}}Henkel, Steve: The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats, page 363. International Marine/McGraw-Hill, 2010. {{ISBN|978-0-07-163652-0}}

History

The company was founded by Mike Howarth and Henry Mohrschladt in 1975, with Mohrschladt as the first president. The first design produced was Mohrschladt's Pacific Seacraft 25. The company was later purchased by Singmarine Industries, a subsidiary of the Singapore-based Keppel Group.{{cite web|url = https://sailboatdata.com/builder/pacific-seacraft|title = Pacific Seacraft|access-date = 2 October 2021|last= McArthur| first = Bruce |work = sailboatdata.com|year = 2021|archive-url= https://archive.today/20211002143442/https://sailboatdata.com/builder/pacific-seacraft|archive-date= 2 October 2021|url-status= live}}

After Ericson filed for bankruptcy in 1990, Pacific Seacraft built some Ericson sailboat models.{{Cite web |date=2012-05-31 |title=Classic Plastic Sailboat Review: Ericson 32-3 {{!}} Cruising World |url=https://www.cruisingworld.com/sailboats/ericsons-lofty-left-coast-lineage/ |access-date=2024-07-31 |language=en-US}}

While headquartered in California, the company filed for Chapter 11 protection from its creditors in May 2007.{{Cite web |date=2007-10-25 |title=Pacific Seacraft Will Sail Again {{!}} Cruising World |url=https://www.cruisingworld.com/pacific-seacraft-will-sail-again/ |access-date=2024-07-31 |language=en-US}} The company's assets, with the exception of the Dana 24 molds which went to Portland, Oregon, were purchased at a bankruptcy auction September 2007 and moved in their entirety to Washington, North Carolina, along with some of the former employees. Production restarted in 2008 under the new ownership of marine-archeologist Stephen Brodie and his father Reid.{{cite web|title=The News & Observer Archive Search Results 1 matches found for "(Pacific Seacraft)" in the Archives - showing 1 results. [ New Search ] Bargain hunter buys boat business |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=RLOB&p_theme=rlob&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=%28Pacific%20Seacraft%29&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=%28Pacific%20Seacraft%29&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no|publisher=News Observer|accessdate=7 June 2012}}

Pacific Seacraft

History

Current models

Past models

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