Potter/Princeton, etc built hulls

[askipper3]

Looking into a 21' foot seacraft, 1984.......is this a potter hull, if it's not, if heard it was a crappy year. Is this true, urget, please help!

[NoBones]

Not POTTER. 1980/1981 Potter was still on board.

[peterb]

IMHO, this deserves a multi-part response.

First, courtesy of Capt. Chuck, here is a list of the manufacturer by year:

SEC = SeaCraft Inc (Potter 1969 thru 5/80)
csy = Carribbean Sailing Yachts (1980-1982 23'& 27' SeaCrafts only)
SIC = SeaCraft Industries Corp (1980 thru 1987 other SeaCraft Models) (Potter on Board of Directors approx 1 year after sale)
TXY = Sarasota Marine Corp ('86-'88 csy Parent Co)
SIC = Tracker SeaCraft of Fla (1987 thru 1990) all models
SXC = Stern Craft Corp (1994 Silver King Parent then Tracker Parent Co in 1995)
MIC = Silver King Boats (1994-2002 Mako Marine Parent Co)
MRK = Mako Marine (2002 Parent Co SeaCraft from Tracker)

Second, regarding who made the "best" boats, here is a perception that was shared with me: With a Potter built boat there was little, if any, deviation in the quality that went into each boat. With the other boats, there may be a wider degree of variation.

Third, and perhaps most importantly, you have to consider who had the boat before you and how they treated it.

Net/net, I don't think that there is anything such as a bad SeaCraft. A number of people seem to have a bias to the Potter built era. However, I am sure that there are many awesome SeaCrafts from the non Potter era. There are many members of our site who will substantiate this.

Just take the boat on it's own merit. Have somebody with you who knows what he/she is doing.

At least this is my take.

[Snookerd]

Welcome Askipper3 to the forum. 1984 is not crap, just not Potter built as No Bones said. The 20 that you are looking at is very well built.

[askipper3]

awsome,

[eggsuckindog]

I will agree, CSY and the other guys built very good boats and the Potter thing is a little overblowen as the new ones are the same hull just not the same hardware per se.

[Ikan Besar]

I've seen and spent time on some very nice non-Potter hulls and have owned two Potter hulls. While there may have been a few bad boats from time to time, I'd suggest judging each hull on its own merit and take the quality of the hardware (a topic which gets brought up a lot) out of the equation: replacing deck hardware and fittings is easy and doesn't cost much in the grand scheme of things. And if anyone really likes that original era marinium hardware, there is a complete set in the Martin County landfill in South Florida