[Fr. Frank]

My '72 Seafari 20' has the original sticker which says max HP is 240 hp. My serial # is 4 digit beginning with with 27, and the last two digits illegible.

BTW, I asked Carl Moesly about the high HP rating on my Seafari, and he said some of them were sticker-rated that high to provide for a few being made for an agency of the Federal government which wanted to put twin 115's on a 20' hull. He said there were a few labeled with higher max HP ratings in every year from '68 to '73. He also said he had thought that almost all the boats so labeled were center consoles, except for 1 or 2 Seafari models.

That's where I think it's weird, because while my 1st 1972 20' Seafari, (which I owned back in the early 80's) had a transom cutout for twin engines and was labeled with a Max HP rating of 140 hp, my current 1972 Seafari 20' only has a transom cutout for a single and is originally labeled for 240 hp.

Carl also said that he thought Frank Brown of Palm Beach Gardens (Many of you will know who Frank is) may have been the one responsible for selling a few sterndrive 20' SeaCraft models with V8 sterndrives in the mid 70's, notably the 188 hp Ford-block Mercruisers.

I had seen one Seafari with a V8 Mercruiser back in 1983 or '84. Since the boat was only a few years old, I had assumed it was original, not repowered by Frank Brown.

Carl regaled us with some absolutely great stories about SeaCraft in the early days, including the secret to the mysterious 27' Seavettes, of which 3, and only 3, were made.