Simmons Sea Skiff

This one owner, 2008 18ft Simmons sea skiff that was built by a master boat builder on the South Shore of Massachusetts who once worked on the US Constitution. It took approximately 500 hours to build and is in exceptional condition.

She is extremely sea worthy. The boat comes with a galvanized single axle trailer. The motor is a 25hp 2 stroke mercury with approximately 50 hours. Just recently painted, shes a real head turner. Everything works.

A little about the Simmons Sea Skiff: Thomas Norwood Simmons was born in 1908 in Wilmington and lived most of his life on Myrtle Grove Sound. He was a carpenter by trade. In 1946, Norman Piner asked Simmons to build a boat for him. Simmons built the first boat of what evolved into the Sea-Skiff.

The Simmons Sea-Skiff was developed in the late 1940s and early 1950s out of a need for a lightweight boat. Its design includes an upswept bow, a semi V-bottom toward the bow with a flat bottom toward the stern, and a well for the outboard motor.

The Sea-Skiff can be launched directly into the ocean from the beach, is easily handled in ocean waves, and yet can be used in the marshes and tidal creeks because of its five-inch draft. It was an excellent combination of an oceangoing vessel, like the whaleboat, and the marsh or coastal river boat, like the shove skiff.

Buyer is responsible for pick up.

I am listing this for a friend, so payment will be done directly to him.