Scat Craft
Scat Craft Boats
Scat-Craft Marine, Inc.
2300 McCoy Rd
Orlando, Florida
Bill Critchfield was a boat racer and builder based in Florida. His company, Critchfield Marine offered Sabre Boats according to a Feb. 24, 1967 article in the St. Petersburg Times. The dealer for Sabre boats in the St. Petersburg area was Van Bros Chris Craft Inc.
The company was looking to expand into the Midwest market by advertising for salesmen in the Nov. 17, 1968 issue of the Chicago Tribune. In this ad, Critchfield Marine boasted of a new 110,000 sq ft. plant producing the "winning HOTSWIFTSLEEK CRITCHFIELD IDEA LINE" and the address listed was Municipal Airport, Avon Park, Florida. Critchfield Marine was around at least as early as 1965 when it was mentioned that year in a MerCruiser sterndrive ad in Yachting Magazine Vol. 118.
A later incarnation was Scat-Craft Marine, Inc. According to a Sept. 20, 1973 article in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, North American Products Corp. of Sarasota, Florida dropped its entire line of boats to instead produce models from Scat-Craft molds as Lightning Boats. North American had bought some of the Critchfield molds from Wellcraft Marine Corp., also of Sarasota. Wellcraft had bought Critchfield Marine's property, some tooling and plant equipment.
