[oldbluesplayer]

CSN - where do you boat out of? keep it in the Saugus River? - how long a run out to Stellwagon ? I assume you were out chasing little tunny? I have, so far, mostly launched out of Hampton, NH, but have also come down to Gloucester and launched from there.

this whole Seafari stern topic is certainly interesting = wonder if we can get Don/ Hermco to get some direct insight from Bill Potter on the performance of his bracketed Seafari?

Those half height seat boxes in the stern do present some interesting thoughts, if one really wanted to get into some major redesign/ rebuild. Mine has an integral fishbox on the port side, when I redid my transom, I thought about cutting that out, as it slopes inward, inside of the port stringer, and has a drain out thru the transom, near the center. removed, I could have put a second battery on the port side, balancing the one in the starboard side, and then also had a clear shot at putting two knees in, off the stringers, up to the outboard notch - that would have been the ultimate stiffening redesign, but I wanted to preserve the fishbox and the original design - but in use I find those rear seats just about useless, nobody likes sitting back there with the engine noise right next to you.

I really like what Peter Alari did with his 20 CC, and now I'm brewing a thought, along the lines of, raising the height of those seat boxes by about 6 - 8 inches, maybe a little more, but not to full gunnel height, still low enough to be able to reach down in to the hull to work on stuff, and then building a wall across between them, to increase the splashwell height. A lot of cogitating yet to do on this.

Love to hear thoughts from other Seafari owners.

Bill