[John R]

Down in Florida I think you have more options than us up north. A few things I wanted when I was looking and what steered me to the Seacraft was the rumored ride in the snot and how solid a boat it was. It was also one of the few boats that can be found in the older year classes and found for relatively decent coin. To go back a bit and get a good snot boat meant an old Whaler (pricey & very wet pounder), older Mako (semi-pricey pounder), 23-24 Formula/T-Bird/Performer Hull (fairly rare up here - non pounder), Fish Nautique (rare, don't want an inboard), Shamrock (real pricey inboards) or an old seacraft. The Formula & Seacraft hulls are the better riding of these choices, higher performanced, and both are GEORGEOUS looking hulls. Either is a drop dead steal your breath hull. One of the things that also sold the Seacraft was the notion that up here they ask high 60s for a new 23SC. You can probably even get the speckled paint [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img] . But the other thing that sold me on the 23SC is that is what a lot of the local R&R bass comm fishermen and some of the Tuna boys use around here. An old Cuttyhunk bass man I know said that it was hands down the best in its class in Buzzards Bay and off the Hunk. THAT carries a lot of weight with me too...

So yo have one of the few hulls that can compete with todays high flyin' Regulators and Contenders, not too mention new SeaMakos rolling out in the 60K bracket looking much the same THIRTY years later and its no suprise that the market is being pushed by those that know and respect the older Seacrafts and those that see the relative "value" of owning one of these old warhorses.