Scarab Moulds
 

On Facebook there is some selling all of the Scarab moulds (from 19ft to 38). I think the 38AVS has already sold.

Is this legit?

I thought the moulds were either destroyed or with Archer Marine

I have the Larry Smith Race boat molds those are the wellcraft molds.

I have all of the Larry Smith Scarab Race boat molds. those are the Wellcraft junk.

So the current offerings by Beneteau are Wellcraft in name only--have no actual lineage?

That’s interesting. I thought there are numerous threads online that all the Wellcraft moulds were crushed.

From what I have gathered over the years. The original "Scarab" was made by Larry Smith. He leased the name and similarities to Wellcraft. Wellcraft then mass marketed the Scarab name an made a ton of "production line" Scarab boats in many lengths using the Scarab name. The majority of the bada$$ Scarab race boats were custom Larry Smith hulls. When the majority of people think of a Scarab boat they are probably referring to the Wellcraft production boats, but the lineage started as a custom boat from Larry Smith. And those are the molds Team Archer has.
Am I close Dan?

right on the money the boats that Beneteau are selling have nothing in common with the Scarab lineage they bought the name and put it on everything that they had that floated they have screwed up the name. witch is to bad Regards Dan

So these aren't even the molds that the original Wellcraft Scarabs came from that had the blessing of a Larry Smith? These are the molds that Four Winns puts the Scarab name on? That's blasphemy!

There were definitely moulds on the property when it sold but were removed before renovations began. As Team Archer said, none would be LS’s. However, there was a lot of local interest to know if any were 302’s or 38’s.

which ones?
26, 28, 31, 38, 43, 46?

I have the 26 hull and deck, the 31 hull, 37 twin stepped hull, 38 twin stepped with race deck, 43 twin stepped with race deck and Wellcraft deck, 46 hull and race deck.

wow! That is many molds!

is the 43 the same mold that Eliminator pulled a couple boats from? Or was that a Wellcraft mold?
Thanks

37 Hull....ocean spray?
was that the only one built?
I’m guessing this was a whole new boat, not just a foot cut off the 38?
a shortened 38 LS deck would fit it?
what are differences between 37 and 38 hull?
and what happened to ocean spray 37?
Thanks

Ocean Spray was a 38 hull that we cut the bow down so they could see over it. the 37 is the boat that Nigel Hook had and now hangs in the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indy. The 38 was a standard 8.6 beam were as the 37 was a narrow beam 7.6

The 38 Ocean Spray was cut up into a pleasure boat a couple of years ago there was a post on it here on OSO.

There was only 1 43 Scarab hull mold with two decks. So answer to your question yes those were the same molds they leased from us but could only use the Wellcraft deck.

do you have photos of the molds? Are they for sale?