Custom Carolina Yachts for Sale

Custom Carolina is not a builder, and a listing carrying that name is not from a factory. It is how the market labels a one-off sportfisherman built in the North Carolina tradition: most of them from Wanchese, eight miles from the fleet at Oregon Inlet, and from the yards along that coast: Jarrett Bay, Paul Spencer, Ricky Scarborough, Paul Mann and others, each building a handful of boats a year to their own hand.

What they share is the Carolina flare that Omie Tillett is credited with championing (a sharp entry arcing hard out to the deck, which throws spray down and lifts the bow in the short steep sea off Hatteras) and cold-molded construction, wood and epoxy, which is light, strong and entirely dependent on how well it was done and how it has been kept. Buying one is buying a specific boat by a specific builder, not a model. Get a surveyor who knows cold-molded hulls and who knows that yard's work; the difference between two boats of the same length and year can be enormous.