I actually never new that Ericson made an S. I always thought the "S" to be
associated with the fact that the boat was a Pacific and that the Ericson
was the "SE". This aside from the fact that Ericson first made a little
spartan version or not.
My hunch is that if Ericson made an "S" it was only because they didn't have time to work out their brand and marketing and that it is more like an SE for all intensive purposes. But that is only speculation.
Steve Haislet
Latest Trick
911S Pacific
On 11/1/03 11:46 AM, "WiltW@aol.com" <WiltW@aol.com> wrote:
> In a message dated 11/1/2003 9:17:59 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> mtove1@comcast.net writes:
> I gather that the "E" in "SE" means that the
> boat was built by Ericson. Curious to learn if there are any other principal
> differences (e.g. weight, interior layout, rig
> configuration, etc.) between
> the 911S and 911SE.
Wrong. I owned the first Ericson 911S hull
> (ERY91101Axxx). The Ericson 911S had a solid fiberglass hull, lots of interior
> amenities for cruising (pleasing the wife) like fancy wood cabinetry and
> liquor locker on the fold-up galley table, hot water heating system, and no
> race oriented gear as standard. I had to add spinnaker stuff, checkstays,
> hydraulic backstay adjuster, secondary cockpit winches, etc. to race. The 911S
> was the only version in 1988. Then in later years Ericson introduced the
> 911SE, with less cruising amenities to save weight and cost, and some racing
> oriented things as standard features. The 911SE had no water heater system, no
> Origo oven/range, no liquor locker, and much less cabinetry. But the 911SE
> interior was still not as spartan as the Pacific Boats 911S. I don't recall
> which race accessories was added as 'standard' to the 911SE configuration, but
> it was priced about the same as my non-race boat (before I added the racing
> stuff).
I raced once on a Pacific hull, on what was the SF Bay Champion of
> Champions (winner against all other fleet champions) skipper's boat, in the
> same years as Ericson was building both 911S and 911SE, and have had the
> designer (Carl Shumacher) out sailing when I was initially fitting out and
> planning on race equipment, etc.
--Wilton Wong Received on Mon Nov 3 11:44:03 2003