Pacific Seacraft Corporation is a
Washington, North Carolina
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–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
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. 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
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twice selected Pacific Seacraft as a producer of America's 100 best products.
[Henkel, Steve: ''The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats'', page 363. ]International Marine
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/McGraw-Hill
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, 2010.
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
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-based
Keppel Group.
After Ericson filed for
bankruptcy
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in 1990, Pacific Seacraft built some Ericson sailboat models.
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 Dana 24 molds which went to
Portland, Oregon
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, 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.
Current models
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Pacific Seacraft 31 (1987-)
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Pacific Seacraft 34 (1984-)
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Pacific Seacraft 37
The Crealock 37, also called the Pacific Seacraft 37, is an American sailboat that was designed by British naval architect W. I. B. Crealock as a cruiser and first built in 1978.Sherwood, Richard M.: ''A Field Guide to Sailboats of North Americ ...
(1980-)
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Pacific Seacraft 40 (1997-)
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Pacific Seacraft 44
The Pacific Seacraft 44 is a bluewater cruising yacht produced since 1990 by Pacific Seacraft of Washington, North Carolina. Although of GRP construction, the yacht is traditionally built with a cutter rig, skeg-hung rudder, canoe stern and semi ...
(1990-)
Past models
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Flicka 20
The Flicka 20 is an American trailerable sailboat designed by Bruce Bingham as a cruiser and first built in 1974.Henkel, Steve: ''The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats'', page 120. International Marine/McGraw-Hill, 2010.
The design ...
(1978)
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Dana 24 (1974)
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Orion 27 (1979)
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Orion 27-2 (1981)
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Ericson 32-3/333 (1985/1990)
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Ericson 34/350 (1988/1990)
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Ericson 38/380 (1986/1990)
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Pacific Seacraft 25 (1976)
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Pacific Seacraft Mariah 31 (1977)
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Pacific Seacraft 377
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Pacific Seacraft Pilothouse 32
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Pacific Seacraft Trawler 38T
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Pacific Seacraft Pilothouse 40
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See also
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List of sailboat designers and manufacturers
This is a list of notable sailboat designers and manufacturers, which are described by an article in English Wikipedia. Sailboat design and manufacturing is done by a number of companies and groups.
Notable designers
Sailboat designer articles ...
References
External links
Pacific Seacraft Website
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