Professional Secraft restorers in Florida/
 

Can anyone reccomend any professional boat repair professionals who do work on seacrafts in florida/ central florida maybe?
What is a fair price for EACH; stringers for transome, for deck.
Much Thanks in advance.
Brian

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Brian-
Don Herman is a moderator on Classic SeaCraft and has all the credentials......His web site is www.hermco.net. You will see the rebuilds that he has done. Good luck.

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Much thanks, i have looked at the pics of his past jobs. Great work. If I had someone do the work I would want Nidacore or other lifetime/ rotfree synthetic materials used. Whats your opinion on that, please? I sent him an email today via his website.

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I believe Hermco has a ceramic-poured transom system that he has been using. I would choose a no-rot material, but for ease and price, properly encapsulated marine ply can still hold it's own as close to a rot free material.

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This is true, if pay some one to do this and go thru the truoble It will be a lifetime boat for me, wouldn't want to have to even take the chance and do it again.

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I am in central florida and have put a CSY Sceptre together, and helped put a Potter Savage back in service. I put a fair number of updates into mine, if you want to chat or look at them let me know. Hermco/Don down south is probably as knowledable and good as it gets, especially with the center console boats. Most of what I worked around are the Savage/Scepter/Tsunami's. I like fishing out of them better than working on them :D

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From what I have read and based on experience Don Hermco has done alot of custom work. For him to restore a seacraft would be right up his alley.

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Not only is Don very good, he especially likes SeaCrafts, and I know business has slowed down for him, so not only would giving Don the work be doing a favor for a fellow CSC member, he could also probably get to it fairly soon. Give Don a shout.

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viewing his website he appears to be a Sseacraft Pro.
I especially like that extension hed did on that big boat with the tower. Among the other very impressive restorations.

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Dont forget Wildfire marine up in stuart? suprised no one mentioned them yet

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thanks Ben. BTW I sent you a PM last week did you get it?

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3rdday - never got anything, might want to try again

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I know Mike doesn't like to do anything but wood. Not a bad thing, though, if you know what you're doing. I'm taking my boat to him on Saturday. Thought I was dead set on a non-wood deck and transom, he convinced me otherwise.

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did you get a PM from me this AM? It may not be working.

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Don't let the "rot" hype get your mind all twisted around. My 1978 still has 99% of the wood in the hull in tact and strong. There is a very small soft section on the bow casting deck and when I added the cap of the transom there was minor softness in the transom which I dug out and fixed. Wood is still used in Grady Whites and when encapsulated will last another 25+ years.

If your main goal is to save weight, then perhaps I could agree with you.

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My goal is to do this once and only once, I would also like the boat to be "bullet proof" I plan on putting this Seacraft through its paces. :eek:

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Seacrafts are already bullet-proof. ;).A few of them even had .50 caliber machine guns on the bow and were used as pt boats. How badazz is that?? :cool: