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[bradford]

Originally Posted by macojoe

In the late 70's early 80's Wellcraft raised the decks giving you less free board cause of the coast guard requiring the flotation in the newer models. There for my 75 was the bet year as I had more free board

The newer models built after 1977 also have a higher coaming due to the newer style cap, thus supplying more freeboard. My '85 model has 26" from the deck to the top of the gunnels. Not sure what pre-78 models have???

Also, the only foam I could find in mine was around the factory fuel tank which caused it to rot out beyond belief.