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Originally Posted by tommyg29
Couple pictures showing how it sits. A little low in the back but not much water comes in. The shot of the stern while trolling was with me and my son standing back there.
The Sea star steering turned about 5 full turns lock to lock, but it sure seemed to need constant correction at WOT, which is about 44mph at 5400 rpm . . .
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The effects of the small flotation tank on that Armstrong bracket are quite obvious. Pic below shows how mine sits at the dock with a Hermco bracket with much bigger flotation tank and 427 lb motor, with 2 big coolers and a full load of cruising gear. Of course the Seafari is a little less stern heavy than CC models to begin with. I never have water on the swim platform, even with a couple big guys standing on it. Boat is self bailing at the dock, and my '72 model doesn't have the raised deck that Potter incorporated on ~'74 and later models.
Sea Star makes helm pumps with 3 different displacements, and you clearly have the smallest displacement pump. I have the medium pump and its' about 4-4.5 turns lock to lock. Steering effort is very light; had I known that, I would have gone with largest pump! Main advantage of hydraulic steering is there is no feedback, so it stays where you set it!