Sea Craft article

[bradford]

There's a big yella scepter with a hard top parked in front of worst marine in savannah for sale too. No price listed.

[bigshrimpin]

http://moeslyseacraft.com/BeginningPg2.aspx

Moesly teamed with Carl Kiekhaefer of Mercury Motors. Moesly raced Mercury's on the back of his SeaCrafts and Kiekhaefer used SeaCraft boats to test-run his engines at Lake X and at his salt-water test station on Florida's west coast, while his team raced SeaCraft boats in many of the offshore ocean races. One such race, the SeaCraft boats came in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th in the outboard division. A reporter asked Carl, "How are you going to beat that?" Carl just shrugged his shoulders. The next ocean race, SeaCrafts took 1st thru 7th positions.

Carl and the Director of the Test Basin, "guesstimated" in the 1990's, one of the ex-raceboats built in 1967 and then used for test work, had between 2.5 to 3 million miles on it. That's a lot of miles on one boat!

Moesly kept designing, building, racing and selling his boats. Wearing many hats, kept him busy on the drawing board, out in the production plant or on the road convincing dealers to sell his boats. His wife, Jeanne, also worked many areas, handling personnel, payroll, inventory, promotions, and racing herself.

Often enough, Carl would walk into the production plant with a drill in his hand. His production manager would run and get the chalk marker following Carl around as he drilled small holes in the hull of some of the boats on the assembly line to insure their quality and thickness. The core samples would be weighed, the resin burned out and the fiberglass material carefully weighed to get the fiber-to-resin ratio, which is very important. The holes would be marked and then repaired. This was Moesly's way of insuring quality control.