Boat models · Carolina Skiff
Carolina Skiff 21 LS
Powerboat, center console
Key figures
Weight / hp12hot
- Builder
- Carolina Skiff
- Propulsion
- single outboard
- Length
- 21.1 ft
- Beam / draft
- 8.0 ft · 0.6 ft
- Displacement
- 2,100 lb
Design figures as published, not for any one hull. Full specifications on carolinaskiff.com.
Reputation
Classcenter consoleas owners use it
Forumsrespectedpicked over its peers
Stable, dry-enough, near-indestructible shallow-water skiff; basic and rough in chop
- Coastal cruising
- mixed · fine inshore, pounds and slaps in chop
- First boat
- respected · cheap, stable, low upkeep, easy to resell
- Daysailing
- ordinary · used as a fishing or family day boat, not sailed
- Loved
- Very stable at rest and drift · Floats in skinny water · Low maintenance, simple build · Holds resale value
- Gripes
- Pounds in chop · Wet in crosswind or beam sea · Spartan finish and storage · Hull noise and slap
- Survey for
- Transom wood or core rot · Stringer or foam water saturation · Cracks at console and deck seams · Rusting or loose fasteners and hardware
- Cross-shopped
- Carolina Skiff J16 · Carolina Skiff 218 DLV · Sea Pro certain 200 CC · Bulls Bay 200
Owner opinion from thehulltruth.com, carolinaskiff.com, iboats.com
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