Not quite a Savage but...

Ryank · #1 06-27-2009, 05:27 PM

Saw a 26' pacemaker today center console twin inboard, forward cabin set up just like a savage and the top and bulkheads for the cabin unbolted to make the boat a true center console. The center console even had a head in it. This boat was massive, looked like a 27 savage lol. one eng runs, has outriggers its a 78? and under 2k I wa sooo tempted [img]/forum/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

fdheld34 · #2 06-27-2009, 06:13 PM

Ryan, how much do you think it weighs?? Were the Pacemakers wood or fiberglass???? I guess fiberglass if a '78?!?!. A bigger money pit!!!!!!!!
-FRED

BigLew · #3 06-27-2009, 08:26 PM

And they are real slow. Very heavy. I once considered a 26 F/B until I sea trialed it. They had two versions of the 26. One was a rounded chine with a very flat stern area and the other was a sharper V type entry flattening as it went aft to again a very flat stern. Very similar to the Egg Harbors.

In a light chop they did OK because of the relative high weight and being so flat in the stern, they did not roll on a drift as much as some of the deep Vee's. The later 70's and early 80's were notorious for blistering, as a lot of the larger boats that almost always went in to the water in the spring and stayed there all season. This was even a greater problem in the warmer climates than here in the NE. They were built like tanks with plenty of glass,and probably very good once sorted out, but they can be particularly deep money pits.

beradtke · #4 06-28-2009, 01:40 PM

my dad has a 1972,26 foot cabin pacemaker with a 6.2 chevy diesel in it and it weights in at aboult 11000 pounds. it moves at about 14-16 knots full speed.

hey big from what i know the pace maker was made by egg harbor for a long time till finical crisis in the company split them up.

BigLew · #5 06-28-2009, 06:15 PM

I think you are right about that one. It was kind of like Cadillac(sp.?) and Buick, same basic car, but the finish/standard features were of different levels, thus price the difference.

In boats there was, I think it was, Trojan and Silverton. There was a blow up between the two original partners and they parted ways. Who ever left who started his own company with very similar designs at first and then they each began to evolve in different directions. There are probably other similar examples as well.