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I also have a 1979 31 Excalibur. I have read every page of this thread and no one answers the original question in 1979 was the 31 a joint project of Excalibur and Chris Craft as my boat has all Chris emblems on it Anyone????????

Philo312

From what I know, the 31' hull could be considered a "joint project" in '79. Dick Gent was hired to head Chris Craft in 1978. He wanted to turn things around and build a deep V hull performance line. Gent then entered into an "agreement" w/ Bill Farmer of Excalibur to build a new high performance deep V boat, both the 31' and the 36', thereby bailing out Farmer w/ his financial troubles. However, the issue was that Jean-Claude Simon (of Cary Boats) actually "owned" the mold (or rights) to the 31' deep V hull ever since the early 70's. Claude already had an agreement w/ Farmer where Farmer paid him royalties on each 31' hull popped out. Gent and Farmer eventually paid Simon outright for the rights to the hull design. Simon agreed, however insisted that each hull must read "designed by J-C Simon" After the buyout, Chris Craft now owned the 31' hull and actually built two versions --a center console version & the deep V I/O. These designs were eventually called "Stingers" But in 78/79, they didn't have the "Stinger" logo. I believe the logo read "Excalibur by Chris Craft" ...I could be off on a few (small) facts here, but this is what I remember reading. So, YES, it makes sense that your ride has the CC emblem! Mine is a 1978, but she's the 36' hull and has NO "Chris Craft" reference on her.
Hope this helps..

Philo312

Here..read this. About halfway down, it give the complete history of Excalibur & Chris Craft. It was a simple Google search dude.
http://www.chriscraftstingers.com/history.html

whiskeyhangover

I have a 1982 Excalibur Hawk '40 ID# NAP07416M82H with a notched transom with 2 502 EFI's. First ower was Ives Industries in Treasure Island, FL and the 2nd owner was a man named Eddie Fields from Orlando. It is a great boat!
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ads4189

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whiskeyhangover

I was told yesterday that there are only 5 registered Excalibur Hawk 40 and mine is one of them. If this is true.. Wow!

Jons

How could that be, I have saw five together at same time in Florida Keys. Maybe only five left. ?

whiskeyhangover

I think they were talking about actual Excalibur Hawks made by Excalibur marine not Wellcraft, but who knows.