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The original config would be most excellent for a dive boat leaving a huge cockpit.
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Great save Brian! Was hoping someone would rescue that old gal before the state removed and scrapped it!
You're absolutely right about the original being a great dive boat! Look at all the folks on the Unohu in the picture below!
I made numerous dives off that boat and it would handle 4 guys, all their gear and 8 tanks and nobody felt crowded! Was also the best riding boat I've ever been on! The SeaCraft 23's used to have trouble keeping up with it whenever seas got over about 4'! The owner, climbing over the transom in that picture, used to dive 2 tanks almost every Saturday and Sunday of the year! He bought it new from Moesly in '65 at the Miami boat show (it was the boat on display!) and I think he was on engine No. 5 when he sold it in '92. He had retired and I lost touch with him and didn't know he was trying to sell it or I would have snapped it up in a heartbeat! Denny