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Originally Posted by BarryCuda
First let me get this out of the way, I do not own a Seacraft. Although at 12 yrs of age I enjoyed a family friends 19' cc in the Bahamas (ah the good old days). I did grow up on Boston Whalers.
Now, I want to give praise "Mr Seacraft" Mike at WILDFIRE MARINE in Stuart, Fl who took on the total bow to stern reconditioning of my 1989 Whaler Outrage 22'. I carefully choose WILDFIRE MARINE after a bad exerience with Treasure Coast Customs in Port St Lucie, Fl.
Mike and Debbie Sternberg are a unique husband and wife very capable Team working together. Mike has some 23 years of boat building experience. Debbie has some 12 yrs previous experience working for Pursuit Boats. They possess the knowledge and hands on experience that make them trusted true Craftsman not always found in the Marine repair business. Here is a summery of what WILDFIRE MARINE did for my Whaler:
* semi-enclosed port and starboard transom.
* design, fabricate, construct two aft seats port and starboard.
* recore large center deck floor hatch over fuel tank.
* recore both gunnel rail caps.
* raised taller the center console (I'm tall), filled big and small holes.
* total hull in/out sanded, primed and sprayed Imron quality paint.
* through hull plumbing install of a live bait well system.
Then Debbie took over on rigging and wire:
* rerig Evinrude 200 OB.
* VHF, compass, stereo, speakers, switch panel, ignition, trim tabs, under gunnel courtesy lights, nav lights, battery chgr., duel batteries and switch, fresh wtr system, bilge pumps. All in A Clean Neat Professional manor!
After a Very Bad Experience with Treasure Coast Customs in Port St Lucie, I was very cautious of who was going to work on my Whaler! I did in-depth research, asked previous customers and asked those in the Marine trade business about the reputation of Mike and Wildfire Marine before I trusted him with my Whaler project. I am Proud of WILDFIRE and my Whaler. So whether you have a SeaCraft, Whaler, Mako, Contender or another boat that needs fiberglass or paintwork, repair or recondition, you can trust WILDFIRE MARINE.
Barry #772-341-0111
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Any pictures of the Whaler?
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Originally Posted by Lordwrench
Try again. Your buddy Mike and Wildfire Marine was completely complicit in unloading a disaster of a boat they built for a customer on me. I took a straight prison pounding from wildfire marine and zack sayers, their customer who ordered the build. helping their previous customer unload a poorly modified and known compromised hull, I think it lasted him 3 seasons? After ~60k in refurb costs paid to wildfire. Stay far away. Good ole Mr. Mike talked with me and my dad for an hour or so, real nice and old timey, while all along passing off an undisclosed, obviously known, severely compromised hull. The seller had me pick it up at wildfire because "they are fixing some cracks where all seacrafts crack." This was my third SC20,and the casting deck corners are common to crack a bit,they didn't mention the 8" split in the dead center of the keelson. It split on me after not even one season, revealing itself to be poorly patched from the outside only, and sold undisclosed. And at a premium price. The deck and rear bulkhead channel, scupper tubes and interior cap to floor supports cracking to pieces along the way before I realized what the root cause was. The boat was literally coming apart in pieces. After all that expense and hullabaloo(search around CSC, the build is documented in a thread, but not well.), the hull didn't last 300 hours. I don't know when it first cracked with their customer, but it re-cracked in less than one season of nothing but Charleston area sandbar trips.
The seller smugly confirmed after I sent him a photo of the crack that he had already had it glassed once, after the rebuild at wildfire. Zero mention of that defect. Ever. By Zach or wildfire.
This is only the cliff notes, I assure you, Wildfire was bailing themselves and their customer out of a disaster they designed and built together, by selling it to me, completely undisclosed, all the while looking me straight in the eye.
They are dishonest people.
I still have the hull, it's a truly gorgeous piece of garbage, wildfires specialty.
Feel free to contact me privately anyone considering using this shop for all the details.
I abhor drama have been reluctant to say all of this on this forum, I have said pieces of it before,but this post required me to respond and hopefully keep others from making a mistake with this company.
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Wow! Sure looks like a pretty boat, I liked the way it came out.
I am sorry to hear that, always heard good things about them.
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