[flyingfrizzle]

To start off, this hull was one of mine but sold to a friend after his quest to find an 23 for his family. I will be doing the rebuild for him and thought I would share the build up here. That way the new owner (a state away) can watch progress and we also will be able to get help or support from everyone up here. Also it may help others get ideas on how they may want to go about doing their hulls. Something different that may show to be helpful to others on this thread we will be documenting my time spent as well as the build pictures and descriptions. One of the most asked questions up here is "How much time dose it take and cost to redo one of these hulls?" and hopefully this will give people and idea of the massive amount of time going into these builds. We wont be listing cost but you can multiply the hours by your shops local rate to figure cost as well price out the materials and get an close estimate, but you get the idea. One thing that always seems to be certain is that it takes twice as long to build and cost twice as much as you expect so hopefully this will take out some of the grey area around a SeaCraft restore. The hull we are building is a 74-75 era potter 23 sceptre or tsunami which will be converted into a center console with forward seating. Most of the time is better to start with a cc but with his wife wanting the forward seating it was better to start with the sceptre liner lay out. The cap will be modified or completely redone but the cabin section will give us a head start on the basis for the forward seating. Any how please advise if you see a better way or see something I missed during the process as we may can figure better ways on doing things during this build. Also like to thank the fine folks of CSC in advance for all the support, knowledge and friends this site has provided me.

The hull going under the knife: