New & Used Custom Carolina Boats for Sale

HMY Yacht Sales is currently showing 23 active Custom Carolina boats. Median asking price $569K, most between $349K and $1M. Top listed regions include North Carolina, Florida, and Maryland.

See pre-owned Custom Carolina listings.

Popular Custom Carolina models include Irving Forbes.

Custom Carolina is not one manufacturer. It is the family of one-off sportfishing boats built by North Carolina shops, and HMY Yachts lists them by the builder's name, such as Blackwell, Irving Forbes, Ricky Gillikin, Harrison Boatworks, and Joey Miller. Marlin's survey of the Carolina builders traces the style to post-war charter captains including Warren O'Neal, Buddy Davis, Omie Tillett, Sunny Briggs, Ricky Scarborough Sr., and Buddy Cannady, and profiles the shops building today: Spencer Yachts, Winter Custom Yachts, Scarborough Boatworks, Bayliss Boatworks, and Jarrett Bay Boatworks.

The look is the tell: a deep bow flare and a broken sheerline that drops toward the bow, with each shop putting its own signature on where the break falls and how the window lines taper. Under the paint, the classic Carolina hull is cold-molded. Marlin's construction feature describes Bayliss building a triple-ply Okoume hull glassed inside and out with epoxy, and quotes John Bayliss on why the shop stays with wood: nothing compares to the sound-deadening capability, the ride and the performance.