If you’ve been paying attention to the Southport social media pages, you have probably seen the latest 33 FE to leave the shop, dubbed internally as the “tan boat” and the “cream boat”. This was a special project for us, and something we were excited about doing as soon as we heard it was a possibility.
The owner of this brand-new Southport previously owned another center console brand and really loved the comfortable cruising features and aesthetics the boat offered, but couldn’t stand the rough, jarring, and worst of all, wet ride the boat offered. After seeing the Southport 33 at a Fall boat show and then riding it on a raw early October Saturday morning, the soon-to-be future Southport owner was sold, and even remarked “on my old boat, I would have been soaked after that”.
The next few months involved a lot of back and forth, deciding between 33 LX or FE, colors, finishes, and other adaptations to the standard Southport package. In the end, the boat came together perfectly, and the foresight by the new owner was impeccable.
