Starcraft boats

[kingblazer84]

Just a question the older rivited hull starcraft boats did they have any major leak issues with the hulls?

 

[noluck]

loved mine, but was a new boat.

they seemed to be built half decent

 

[RevyG]

Absolutely awesome boats! Owned 3 and loved everyone of them. Great boats. Like all older boats, check the wood but if stored right they last for a long time. Very popular here in the Kootenays.

 

[Burrow boy]

Older means cents in the bottom under floorboards, and only makes sense to lift the floorboards to see. I ended up with holes rotting the hull at 4" ahead of transom .Filled with large ss carriage bolts and j b weld .Thin gage hard to weld. Rivets can be tightened with air hammer and anvil .rear rollers on trailer made dents .bow eye comes loose and tares out ,big leak there .as the boat sinks all the time need to watch the scuppers on the transom motor well as caulked edge fails. Rubber bung metal part breaks from constant drainage, wet boats that need clean fishermen to keep the bulge pumps running.

 

[sly_karma]

Our Sunshine Coast cabin has a mid 70s Starcraft Holiday 14 ft with 80s vintage E40 power. Was stored on the beach tarped up over winter for many years. Despite being hauled up and down to the water using drift log roller system each year, it has never had more than the minor leak it came with 20 years ago. Only issue with that hull is it is nearly flat bottomed so it pounds hard in choppy water. Tough boat and motor that deserves better treatment so I got it a trailer a couple years ago, now it spends winter in the much more sheltered yard behind the cabin.

 

[kaelc]

Ours is a late 60's still going strong. A couple of rebuilds done to it. You can replace leaky rivets with closed end rivet guns. I would make sure to look for the ones with the hard chine rather than the rounded.