The Little Boat That Could
 

Still the most under rated and un appreciated of all Seacrafts. Some people are even talking about hacking them to bits :) This photo was posted quite a while ago and I finally found it in my archives. I forgot who posted it... a father son team back in the 70's.....

Hey, I for one think a person can do anything he wants to do with his boat...:p

Sure Terry...as long as it is not a Seacraft:D

Must have been an agency comms unit, I mean look at all of those antennae pointing everywhere... or maybe early SETI Institute investigators;)

Great shot. I saw a similar aged 20 MA with old twin 70 Johnsons on it at Sesuit Harbor in Dennis, MA. Never saw twins on a 20!

I agree, It would be hard to cut up a classic and change it to something its not. Make it yours, add stuff to make it custom to fit your use and taste. If you want it to be something else you would be better off starting out with that type of boat to start with. Also there are to many cc out there already to convert a non-cc over to one. I cant wait to try my 20' sceptre out, almost got the transom back in. The bracket I got is for twins as well, now if I can just find a counter rotating 70 hp I will be set. I would be cool never the less but really trying to find an mid 2000s opti. I had a 80 model johnny 70 and it was the best motor I ever had. Best fuel mileage too. Thinking about yellow for mine like the one in the pic but might try bringing back the original gel first.

What Fred said :)


Heres the original link posted by Endured several years ago.

http://www.classicseacraft.com/commu...ight=endurance


For some reason I thought it was Capt Chuck that posted it but I got it all straightened out now. Sorry for the confusion there Capt.

strick

I always like to be the devils advocate. Sometimes I think the way someone presents something sets the forum off.

With that being said, let me point out that two members of the forum have taken a 21 (now these are rare) and changed them into something that was never made. etc. one is a center console and the other one is being made into a Seafari. No screaming and gnashing of teeth.

Heavens forbid the next thing someone will want to do is take a race boat and turn it into a fishing machine...:D:D

Good point IT, change can be good if It is done in good taste just ask Obama (well not his change, good taste remember). When I first got on here (csc) I thought every sc would make a good cc conversion but over time I started to appreciate the classics and the looks of some of the older models grew on me and now I would have a hard time doing this to any older classic. I also think someone should be able to do what ever he wants to his boat with out a verbal beating but I guess everyones taste is different and even mine changes from day to day sometimes it seems. Your right about the presentation part, that seems to be the one thing to get the ants moving. People could be a little more willing to try and understand anothers vision or ideas. It just seems the more I get rooted in with these classics the more I want to preserve history, I have even been thinking about going backwards with the 27 rb and putting a full cap back on it. If it was this way when I got it it would probably stay that way but now that it is a cc fishing boat I do like it that way a lot. I will use it a lot more in that form and also enjoy it much more. So guess what Im saying there is a fine line there to walk at least in my mind, but people should do what makes them happy and enjoy life and thier SeaCrafts to the fullest even if that means a little "change".

I must admit I've done my share of hacking in my day. And while keeping the original lines of the boat most of us will change up things on the interior to our liking. But I have become more of a purist as time goes on. I'm heading to the cathedral now to get some holy water....

strick

That is my friend Phil's 20' Sceptre. He wanted a 23' Sceptre but it was too much $$ for him at the time (in the 1970's). He now has two 23' ers. A Sceptre and a Savage.

Yes, that was my old 74 Scepter in Georgetown, SC. Fished 7 years out of the boat and 65hp Johnson's never missed a beat. One of those antennas was a CB. More people talked on CB offshore than on VHF's. Navigation was a compass, flasher depth finder and a Radio Direction Finder (RDF). Just tune in the local AM radio and it would point toward the station. That is the way the Japanese tuned in Pearl Harbor.

Miss the old boat but I found it up on Lake Murray, SC several years ago. It is now green but as sharp as ever.

I think those 7 years are part of my 65 year old back problems today. But what the H**L, you are young only once.