Re: 1974 seacraft 23 ....looking to buy
the inboard 23 is probably the most devastatingly impressive ride of the bunch, that v8 sitting low amidships sets up the balance just right.
I had the experience two years ago of traversing Cape Cod Bay in a good chop, in the company of one, travelling side by side, while I was in my Seafari 20 OB. While I was rising and falling, nearly launching off the waves, our brother in the 23 IB just simply -Crushed- the chop. It was impressive.
The hulls are straight glass, not cored like some other boats - you might be thinking of SeaBird, my brother has one, they're balsa cored hulls. The stringers are large glass boxes, foam filled - sometimes the foam can get waterlogged, a few have reported seperation of the stringer boxes from the hulls - you have to remember these are 30 year old boats, that handle big seas well, and some boats have quite probably literally been beat to sh*t with hard use - so it would be best to look carefully, but not to fear that hard use - the boat is Most Definitely worth it - true believers come, only after, the first ride.
Bill
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