1980 Welcraft Retail Price List

[Franco]

Why the saddle bags MJ ? Mine is in the floor.

[macojoe]

because with the floor tank you don't get the 2 in floor fish box's, And I love mine!! I can hold 100 pounds + ice in each one. Thats 200 pounds of fish not taking up floor space!!
But they are not insulated so the ice goes kind of quick.

See I use my boat for commercial fishing, and I need the space.

[Franco]

makes sense to me. But if we mad a centerconsole, we could put in a big fish box in the forward section in front of the console, insulated of course, and expand the indeck box (like I have) back to the engine box area. Fill the rest with foam

[reelapeelin]

Well, looks like we'll have several models to choose from...CC, cuddy fisher and cuddy cruiser...all w/ full transoms, aluminum w/flotation brackets...I'm thinkin' reconfigure transom to include BIG built-in bait tank recirculating AND raw water, 60 gal belly tank w/ rod holders in gunwales...CC has a bench w/ built-in tackle drawers...cuddy fisher has Capt chairs on boxes w/ built-in tackle drawers...cruiser same except coolers instead of tackle drawers...

83 seems to have been a good year to base this boat on, but we gotta make dash w/ big electronics room to mount...

Bimini standard, curtains optional...

lots more to think about, but one standard throughout all models...QUALITY construction, fit and finish...gotta be right or see MJ's description of Wellcraft's reintro attempt...it's all for nothing if we scrimp on QUALITY... ;)...

SO HOW DO WE GET STATED I'M READY!!!!!!!!!!

[Franco]

looks like we are already started. We know where to get the mold made. Now we have to hire someone experienced with building a boat. Still gotta figure out the core material for stringers and deck. Maybe we should each take an engineering task and work on them. One guy figures out the plumbing requirements - bilge pumpa, wash down, baitwell, etc and put a parts list together. One guy does wiring, another does fuel system and then we get them together and post them here for approval, the more eyes the better. I could do the wiring/electrial stuff.....

[buckleyjr]

I work at PR/IR Firm and could help in some marketing and press if this actually came to something. *I wonder if something like this has ever been done - outside of boating community even. Great example of the power of the Internet, community, and pulling different people together from various backgrounds with a common interest. *Great consumer PR angles, not just boating....

Seperately, check out this site, I have been watching him build this boat for a while. He advertises on boats.com. *

http://www.avidboats.com/

The key thing about this approach is he designed the boat and is taking orders before he actually made the hull. *

[Blue_Runner]

I liked that guy's slogan:

"Where technology meets tradition"

Hey for the center console model I could help out with marketing too. I bought the web domain www.centerconsole.com a couple years ago but I've yet to put a site up. I imagine it gets a certain amount of traffic without even advertising. I've always wanted to use it as a one stop shop for people looking to buy/sell new and used center console boats. I'm just too friggin busy to develop my dreams. Heck, I got too many dreams!

[macojoe]

$3000 for the mold. But we are going to need at few mold's!!
One for the hull,
one for the CC cap,
and one for the Cuddy Cap,
Then the Molds for the floor, seat boxes, and anything else we want to mass produce.

Then were are we going to build this thing??

going to need like $500,000 just to get going!! and thats the cheap side of things!

ButI like it

[labii]

It may just be cheaper to see if wellcraft will sell the old molds and rights to the boat . They bought it back in 1970 and have made the boat for almost 10 years .