Westport 112 vs 125, more advice solicited

The common thread has been Taylor, who has since moved on.

Taylor worked for Sarin before Westport. 9 years for Sarin and 17 for Westport. A lot of military boats now but Westport built many over the years.

There really wasn’t a “before” Westport because the Rust brothers used athe Sarin Hull molds exclusively back in the day, kickin* off with the land mark RPH Motoryacht “Golden Delicious” .

Having worked on two different yacht projects with Westport supplied hulls I am well aware of their transition from commercial fishboats, to passenger vessels to some interesting experiments with the military and to building The Westport brand.

And those builds occurred after 1987 as did others, so struggle to understand what “before Westport” really means as their evolution to the brand never had any other name .

Those hulls were built in Westport.

I thought Dominos was a smaller different hull mold? They also had a place in Hoquiam that did some lay ups on other projects.

The brothers were Westport, starting in 1964 until Orin Edson bought them in 1997, and laid the foundation for series built large composite Motoryachts in the US, hard for me to distinguish the “before” part. There was a time they would build a hull for most anyone, a genius way to keep the lay up crew efficient and working through all the cycles of our Industry.

Howard Apollonia did the design for a hull mold at Christensen when they went more organic.

Westport, under the Rust Brothers, eventually got away from selling some bare hulls to a few independents and focused the brand with the new 112. That laid the groundwork and a nice cash out when Orin stepped in and accelerated the brand with the capital investment only he could provide.

There is a used 130' Westport that will be at the Miami show as well as a couple of 112's. If you go to Miamiyachtshow.com it lists all or most of the yachts that will be there if you search.