[seafari25]

Hey John,

I haven't been on Lake Ontario since I was a kid but it was pretty breezy on our side as I remember. Sounds like you're in the right spot though.

I just wanted to thank everyone again for their nice comments. I gotta tell you the truth. Boating has always been a part of my life growing up and especially made me close with my grandfather. Call me sentimental but if he had purchased a surfboard back in the mid 70's, I'd still be looking after it just the same but he bought a SeaCraft. The boat was always like gold to me but it was only after finding this site, your comments and now having gone through some of the info here that I really realize what SeaCrafts are all about. I'll say it again, I'm sure glad my gramps chose a SeaCraft.

I always thought gramps' boat was a 76 but with the help of Capt Chuck, we figured she was built in march or may 75. So it's making me rethink a few things. I know gramp took a trip out west in the summer of 75 trailering his 23' Starcraft Islander. He sold the Islander to buy the Seacraft so that's why I (and my whole family) thought he purchased her in 76. Also, in 87 my dad bought a display model Bayliner out of the boat show and I remember having a conversation with my gramps about that a few years later and he mentioned that the Seacraft was also a boat show model. Now, having seen the production numbers for the seafari25 in 75, I find it hard to believe that when there were only 3 made and his in may, that SeaCraft held on to that boat for 6 months and sold it as a 76. It is possible that gramp ordered the boat at the 75 boat show and it was delivered to him late summer of 75. I'm hoping someone that may have been representing Seacraft at the Toronto boat show or worked for the company in 75 76 might know the truth and enlighten me. My grandfathers name is Keith Leonard.(Chuck just a thought but maybe the K at the end is for Keith???)

I also want to clarify that this boat still belongs to my grandfather and I am only the caretaker. My grandfather is in his late eightys on his nineth life. He was born with a hole in his heart and struggled with 20 pills a day, operations and brushes with death his whole life. Although his memory fails him now, he has outlasted all the rest of my "healthy" grandparents and I believe it's because of that boat. What else would it be? I wish I had've sat down with him a few years ago and picked his brain. Anyway, I will always refer to that boat as my grandfathers 25 seafari and be the caretaker for life.

Thanks again all,
Brandon