My Brand New to me 1975 20 MA
 

Picked this up on last saturday from Tydall AFB and a very Nice young Raptor pilot in training selling it for a fellow Pilot to which i would like to say thanks if he ever see's this post !! i will give it a good home !!! Our 23 Sceptor will one day have the name Bill Money afixed to it.. and i think this one has become Bill Bait...

Good looking boat, congratulations. Looks to me like you are at the ramp at the end of marina road by robinson island?

yep.. kids wanted to go for a ride on it sunday since we didnt get home till late saturday from Panama City picking it up... Baby girl is holding the boat. Oldest daughter is backing the trailor in and i ran over to the other dock to get the picture in the water. Made the loop then out to the gulf... it was ruff and we got wet but it didnt pound 1 time !! the 20 MA rides very similar to our old 23 SF ... so im thinking T top and spray curtains..

Congrats on your new boat. She looks fantastic. I live in Mobile and can't wait for it to warm up. That area around Robinson island is one of my favorite places. Your a pilot too? I fly out of Mobile Regional flying Citations.

That is one nice looking boat!

strick

I have to agree. I have never owned one but these MA's look like a nice combination of the 20SF and 23SF.

Love the original Master Angler!

I also own a '75 MA. I think yours looks really sharp with the contrasting cap and hull colors. Better than mine. It also sits nicely with a light 2 stroke.

The only one I have ever been in was Tim's black one. With the high gunnels it felt just as if I was back in my 23. Great boat. Hard to find.

strick

Thank you fellow Suckers ...( i say this in kindness and understanding that we all have bought old and spent more than many of our friends with newer yet less seaworthy vessels.. lol) I actively hunted the 20 MA because i wanted the higher cap and after a little buffing last week the blue came out much better than expacted in the test spot.. so this week home i will be compounding and waxing the blue !! I am very excited !! as well as stopping on th way home to pick up a sheet of 3/4 starboard to replace the splashwell door and the doors on the console.. (already replaced the doors on the transome cooler and livewell) I ordered my Bennett M120 sport tabs yesterday and they should be in on wed when i get home !!! markskp I just ride ine the Helos not fly them.. i work offshore and used to ride in one all day.. i now only ride to and from the platform at the beginning and end of each week offshore... ( hope to see you around the island this year.. I posted in the gathering forum looking for interest in a gulfcoast event and hope to garner interest in one..) I am much more excitted about the boat then my wife due to a previous owner douching the floor with varnish (instead of removing the wood he tryed to do this with teh wood installed) and it looks bad where it was spilled and i cant figure out how to remove it with out ruining the gel coat untill i can paint the inside. Lots of money spent and parts ordered... My t top and Lowrance elite7 was shot down this past tues when i had to trade in my daughters z71 after putting a bandaid on the blown head gaskets so we could get her a car... maybe i can sell enough stuff around the house to come up with the coin for it before the end of summer.. and that is a long way off for us on Pleasure Island Alabama....

Looks very nice and clean, I would get sprayed in mine off the corners until I swapped to the Stilletto prop and all that went away - didn't look very rough is all. It made a huge difference

3 or 4 blade prop.. i think i could use a little more pitch but going to hold off untill i load it down with fuel and A$$ then decide... i am a big fan of 4 blade props though.... more lift and push.. but less speed.. the pic was taken behind a island from the wind... it was 1 foot but the wind was blowing the water into the boat.. not much you can do about wind blown water...

its a 3 but it worked - just say'in

thanks.. ill keep that in mind..

I just saw a 17 on THT but I don't think you could swing it with a 115 - I've got a 19 with a 200 and still have trouble getting to 5600 and would like 5800 - they are tough to swing

havent pulled the prop yet... i normally would have already done so and nversezed or greased the spline by now.. do you know if the old tower of power shaft is the same as the 2.4 small shaft... ??

nice boat I thought in the pic it was a 23 I had to look at the title again

it almost feels like our old 23 ... i fell in love with these boats over 20 years ago when my uncle bought his 23.... since then i was hooked !!!

I think I tried to buy that boat from the guy in Tyndall. I called a week late. How's that tower of power run? I literally just got back today from picking up one (an SF) down near Jupiter. It's my first SeaCraft and I can't wait to get it in the water. I'm game for a Gulf Coast CSC event this summer. I'll keep my eyes out for one.

I just imported a new prop QS 4 bl. Power tech. My first thought is that thing weighs a ton.
Light may be right. Smart man there.