[bigfluke]

My company has used a 25' Seafari for very deep-v planing hull and propulsion research for the past 4 years. The discussion in this thread has been helpful to understand the boats general performance. When I bought the boat in Florida the engines and drives were shot so I never ran the boat in its original configuration. The discussion about Moesley's plan to have an integral ballast system in this boat makes a lot of sense based on our findings that the boat was more seakindly and we could eliminate the chine walking, heeling and porpoising by a more forward lcg and other tricks. In fact our testing at 4800 lbs, through 7400 lbs was done by installing ballast to achieve a 0 degree static trim which equates to a 37% lcg.