South Coast Seacraft

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South Coast Seacraft Company
Type Privately held company
Industry Boat building
Founded1965
Founder Hollis Metcalf
Defunct1981
Headquarters
Shreveport, Louisiana
,
United States
Products Sailboats

The South Coast Seacraft Company was an American boat builder based in Shreveport, Louisiana. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of fiberglass sailboats. [1] [2]

Contents

The company was founded by Hollis Metcalf in 1965. [1]

History

The first two designs produced were Carl Alberg designs, the South Coast 23 and South Coast 21, both introduced in 1965. [1] [3]

The company supplied completed, ready-to-sail boats and also kits for amateur completion. [2]

To adapt the South Coast 21 to become a trailerable sailboat for that emerging market in the late 1960s, Metcalf and his chief engineer, James Munroe, made changes to the South Coast 21 to create the South Coast 22, introduced in 1968. It incorporated a larger interior and a swing keel to facilitate trailer transportation. The boat became the company's best selling product, with more than 3,000 built. [1]

Hollis Metcalf was training his son, Warren Metcalf, to take over the company. Warren Metcalf actually designed the South Coast 25, but just as he was completing the design he died in a diving accident. As a result of Warren Metcalf's death, Hollis Metcalf decided to sell the company in 1975 to a Chicago-based group of three investors, Michael Hennessy, John Kleine and Don Weir, who named it the South Coast Seacraft Corporation. The new owners operated the company until it went out of business in 1981. [1] [2] [4]

By the time it closed, South Coast Seacraft had built over 4,000 boats. [1]

Boats

Summary of boats built by South Coast Seacraft: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 McArthur, Bruce (2021). "South Coast Seacraft Co. 1965 - 1981". sailboatdata.com. Archived from the original on 9 June 2021. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 Henkel, Steve: The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats, pages 140, 204, 255 and 368. International Marine/McGraw-Hill, 2010. ISBN   978-0-07-163652-0
  3. ↑ McArthur, Bruce (2021). "South Coast 23 sailboat". sailboatdata.com. Archived from the original on 10 June 2021. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
  4. ↑ Secretary of State of Louisiana (3 February 2016). "South Coast Seacraft Corporation". Bizapedia.com. Archived from the original on 13 June 2021. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
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