Where has your boat been?
 

I saw dogbombs post about the colorado river and i was thinking where have all our seacrafts been. The previous owner of my 78 MA had it in the Atlantic, the gulf, the suwannee river, peace river, St johns, santee river, and his son took it to the pacific, puget sound, williamette river, colorado river and lake mead. what other far flung bodies of water have your Seacrafts been in?

Suwannee River Seacraft Seafari "Cayo Mia", 8/13/17 -

Key West, Fla - August 1993

Jim don't tell me that's a picture of the same Yamaha that's still on your boat....when it was new(er)!! :) Maybe it should go into a museum or have a statue made of it....never mind!

Over 30 years of ownership, the traveled list is long as well as all the SeaCraft friends and their families I've met , I cherish.
But from being Captained by the hands of Bill Potter or the many trips running 105 mi east to Walkers Cay, Abacos, will always be remembered. :)

The first owner kept my boat mostly in SE Florida. I've branched out a little, Bimini, Abaco, Berrys, Exumas, Rum Cay, Conceptcion, San Salvador, Mosquito Lagoon. Florida Panhandle, Nature Coast, Cayo Costa,

Planning continues for the Everglades, Andros, Georgia sea islands, Mississippi River, Lake Powell, Baja California, inside passage to Alaska, and. . . . The boat (or me) probably won't make all that, but other places will do, and dreaming is half the fun.

Provided fuel is available, there ain't many places we can't reach.

Well today my boat went up the Alafia River to the Beer Shed for........what else????

Seafari Trips
 

My 76 Seafari travels are pretty tame compared to Connor & others. Even Don's trip to the Beer Shed sounds good. The first 24 years was spent fishing, snorkeling and skiing in the Keys and Palm Beach and Martin Counties. The remainder has been wakeboarding, slalom or footing off a barefoot boom on Lake Hartwell and Lake Keowee, SC. The boat arrived before the kids, so they grew up enjoying Neat-Sea with us,

The 21 born in Miami, raised on Lake Michigan and now retired on the Gulf of Mexico....LOL :D

Many years passed before I was able to rescue it from neglect, but, since she's been mine, she's been in the Albemarle sound, Chowan River, Perquimans River and 40 miles out of Oregon Inlet, NC.

Born in Miami, Not sure about early history but at some point ended up near here in NC in Morehead city. Then she moved down to Alabama where she lived for a while. She was purchased and then moved up to Massachusetts and had her twin IOs pulled by a member here and was started as a project but not finished. Now after all that she is back in Eastern NC about an hour from Morehead city where she was a few decades ago. She was started on again and stalled. Hope to soon show her the water tho.

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You got more projects going than I could handle, but that is one that would really pay dividends if you can get it in the water. Its an amazing hull. An I/O works best, but I bet a 350 outboard mounted as low as possible and on the transum would work real well too.

I have twin 200hp 2.5's (under 400lbs each) to hang on the back of her. I built molds for a super short setback bracket to be able to keep the full transom in the rear. Don't know if that will be an mistake or not as I probably should hang them direct on the transom. Hoping the counter rotators will help with the rolling issues but also plan on doing big tab modification like Blue_Heron.

Sunday's Child came to me here in the Panhandle of Florida from Massachusetts, where it was used for charter captained by Elaine Peterson.
My previous '72 Seafari the Fishalot II went out 105 miles into the Gulf of Mexico, to the west side of the Florida Middle Grounds with a Merc 90 Opti, and before that as far south as the Cay Sal bank northeast of Cuba running a 2.4L Merc V6.
The Seafari before that was a '69 with an inline 6 Merc 150hp, and it made several trips to the Bahamas, including Grand Bahama, the Berry Islands, the Abaco's, New Providence, Andros, and Eluthera. (Most of that just one trip)

Since 2017 was my first year with her, I can say Vineyard Sound before me, then Barnegat Bay NJ and Raritan Bay. Just getting started.

As far as I know, My 74 Tsunami was bought and and first used in New Jersey.
Then went on to be used in Erie Pa. on lake Erie,followed by several years of use In Olcott NY on lake Ontario.
It then sat there outside in a boatyard for more than 6 years with saplings growing out of the rotted core.
I bought it and moved it 400 miles to my home in Massachusetts.After the restoration I moved it back to the great lakes where it resides today in Olcott NY on lake Ontario 18 miles from the Mouth of the Niagara River.

My current hull before she belonged to me. 120 nautical on the west end of the grounds out of Hudson with a 275 V8 Super Rude. You couldn’t pour gas over the side as fast as she could burn it. Only motor I’ve ever known to require a 1/2” fuel line.

Yepper, eight carburetors on those bad boys with a 3" butterfly opening for each. Lucky you could feed it with a 1/2" hose at 4000 rpm. My 1995 225 OceanPro was just like it only with six of those bad boys!!! And it was burning oil just as fast!!!!