I was looking at an Ad recently where the seller claimed that the 34' Raider was a Larry Smith. I'm vaguely familiar with these as I've looked at them before and strongly considered one years ago.
Now armed with the 1985 Wellcraft brochure it appears that it was a Wellcraft production model and not
a Larry Smith. It seems as tho he could have had his hands on the 38' Raider but I cant substantiate that. Anyone care to comment? Any resident Larry Smith aficionados here? Thanks.

Dan at Archer marine can answer this.

Cool, I'll just stand by. I keep up on his threads. He'll probably be here at some point..

If it has an sqe hin it's Larry smith I think he also used another as well

I'll give Dan a chance to answer then put my 2 cents in if he doesn't answer in a couple days.

tsc

Thanks guys; so if I understand correctly both a TSC or SQE it could be a Larry Smith?
Maybe I should ask if anyone knows if Larry Smith built any Raiders?

Simplest answer is look at the hin. SQE or TSC means it came out of Larry's shops.
Asking which boats he was involved with is sort of a trick question because he designed all the hulls and some of the decks Wellcraft used for the Scarab line. I could see a seller blurring the distinction between built by and designed by pretty easily and most likely intentionally.

Good point, appreciate that. I kinda forgot he was basically Scarab daddy...

Here's an LS outboard for your viewing enjoyment, but don't call it a raider