wellcraft excalibur
 

just got a 27 excalibur 1985 that was refinished. i now need to put the decals back on the boat and do not have any pictures of the decals to go buy. does any body have any pictires of what they look like.it is a wellcraft excalibur thanks

These are the only pictures I have from two different era though .Might find a picture of the logo in my mags
Older 27
http://www3.telus.net/spectrasonly/E...0speedster.jpg
newer 27
http://www3.telus.net/spectrasonly/Excalibur%2027.jpg

thanks thats a start i heard they also have some with a sword

look in the excalibur section here on the site I posted some pics years ago

There was a version that had a sword (an excalibur) horizontally down most of the side. I had one about 30 years ago. Sorry, no pics.

JD , here you go . The swords have to point towards the stem [ bow] of the boat on both sides .

http://www3.telus.net/spectrasonly/Excalibur%20logo.jpg

The factory race boat had Excalibur racing sword going both ways.

thank you this a great help

If I could post pics, I have a couple of one im looking at now for $200. Has the sword on the side with some sort of stripes, black and white I think.

You've dug up a very old thread.....

If you can get an old Excalibur hull to work on as a hobby, it's a much more desirable beast than that old Baja you were looking at. Don't know anything about the condition, you'll still lose plenty of money but at the end, you've got something with a pedigree and a bit of a classic.

Just make sure you enjoy the resto work and pride of ownership. The value is all in the owners mind because you never get back what you've invested.

Good luck,
RR

Old thread but wow, Reggie really did steal the Excalibur hull. :pacifier:

This is an excerpt of an early 90s Fountain press release:

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/f...untain%202.jpg

Not many chances for Excalibur discussions. The 27's and 31's run pretty good if you follow Reggie's path. I simply raised the X on mine and running Bravo with IMCO lower. At 2" below bottom the boat looks like it is going to run 80 mph with 500-525 HP (78 out of the box). That is pretty solid for a boat built 36 years ago!

Thats pretty good considering it takes 1400HP to go 80MPH in the 40 Excalibur Hawk!

Very cool. At least he was open about it. The Executioner does very much resemble the Excalibur however.

The original Executioners were 65 mph boats with twin 454s. Still, they had a huge impact on high performance boating.

It would have been fun to have raised the X on that boat some more. It was still pretty deep for a notched transom and 5 blades. I think it was 4" below. It was an 18" X with neutral boxes and standard length IMCO's.

Reggie set up a number of boats FOR Excalibur in the beginning. A friend had one that came from Excalibur (and Reggie) with SM #3a's and twin turbo BBC's. They ran low 80's, which I would imagine was probably the fastest factory 31-32' boat you could buy back then. By the time my buddy got his, the turbos were done and he restored the boat with a white aluminum windscreen replacing the windshield, and Weiand 177 super chargers, basically mimicking Merc 525's, and it ran low 80's. Looked just like the first excutioners, which were plentiful on the Chesapeake bay at the time, except without the beak, and a simpler/lighter interior and cabin - and it looks better than the fountain IMHO. Reggies success with doing these hulls FOR Excalibur is basically what gave him the idea and or confidence to start Fountain powerboats, using the modified version of Excaliburs hull, with permission as I understood it back then. It was nothing like the classic "splash someone else's hull" or "buy the leftover molds", that occurred throughout the 70's and 80's.

PS - that friend has been trying to buy back the boat for the last few years, since it is just sitting in storage.

Nice ad Olli !! Still had the Excalibur name on the boat - but no mention of that co. in the ad.