Cruisers Inc.

[willy]

Any of you fellows have any knowledge of Cruisers Inc. 30' Sportfish. I am not sure of year but one here has peaked my interest but I have never seen one, been on one or heard any info about them.
It looks like a Chris Craft sportfish with fly bridge

[Destroyer]

Willy, I cannot speak about the 30', but there's a 1973 21' sitting on a trailer in my yard with a 200 Merc on her tranny. Good boat, well made, handles rough water fine. Only problem I've ever had with her was the built in fishwell covers started to delaminate. Easy fix really, just tear the old plywood out and glue in a new piece, then re-glass glass the whole bottom of the hatch. If the 30 you're looking at is built as good as my 21 I'd say you don't have anything to worry about.

[spareparts]

Cruisers INC is owned by KCS International, the parent company for Cruisers, Rampage, and at one time Shamrock. We used to be a Cruisers dealer when I worked for Cape Fear Yacht Sales. They are built in Oconto Wisconson(not far from Green Bay), we went there for a dealer meeting and got to go to the Packers Museum in the bottom floor of the stadium. I haven't seen many of the older ones, but at one time, there was some hull/model sharing between Shamrock and Cruisers. Good company to deal with, I still talk to them time to time.

[willy]

Yea talked with the fellow last night, it is actually a 28 foot Villa Vee. Sounds like a good boat but would not be good for me. He told me it is a good bay boat but in snotty seas it is not a good handler and will pound.
Cruisers does have a good rep, I did some research on them.
Thanks for the info guys.

[randlemanboater]

Watch out....Willy is looking to move on up.

[willy]

Would have already done it my friend if i was not worried about the Obamination getting his wish of $5.00/gal gas this summer. Been scheming for a couple of years.

[brisboats]

Had this one awhile back, I thought it was built better than the Grady's we had before that. Hardware was top end, had hawse pipes and sst railing all on a lil 22'er. I wasn't crazy about the seadrive but she got the job done.

[phester]

I looked at a 22' cuddy before buying my V. Mid to late 80's model, an older guy, a Grumman engineer, was the orig. owner from day one. His house and yard looked as good as the boat. He gave me a quick tour, boat was partially covered and he didn't want to take the whole cover off. I thought it was a solid well built rig and it had a little more room in the cocpit than the V. It was an I/O w/ a 350 in it. I probably would have been more interested had it been an outboard and came w/a trailer. Nice heavy hull and set up for family/fishing. It was gone a week after he hung the for sale signs. Nice boat.

[brisboats]

Mine was a 22' wac, model sea devil. I still have the factory brocheres somewhere. In retropect i should have kept it and changed out the seadrive. The boat rode great and was well taken care of. Now with kids I really could use that cuddy.

Brian