What is my 1968 Seacraft

[manitunc]

I purchased this seacraft. it is titled as a 1968. It measures exactly 19' from bow to transom, which is not any measurement I can find from seacrafts of that vintage. shorter than a 20, longer than an 18. I suspect it was rebuilt from a bow rider, but I don't know how to tell. I know the deck was replaced with Coosa, transom filled in and livewell added along with new center console, fuel tank and wiring, probably about 5 years ago. Any thoughts on what it might have started out as? Other pics in my album

[Fr. Frank]

We certainly need a bigger image to be able to tell anything.

[caper]

Not enough pixels

[NoBones]

Originally Posted by manitunc

Any thoughts on what it might have started out as? Other pics in my album

Just look in his album ....

It looks like it was a Bowrider in its former life.

[Terry England]

Manitunic, Carla and Skip have a ‘68 Bowrider. You might look at the Moseley site to see if you can see any similarities in subtle details that remain on your boat. I have a ‘67 Bowrider and have always noticed that the reverse hook on the lines of the bow are less prevalent in my boat than on the newer hulls. I also have less reverse along the chine, so water had a greater desire to “run up the hull” get under the rub rail which created a nice fan effect for spray to drive through. I found a couple of pictures that indicate the flatter hook in the bow stem that the older Bowriders seem to have.

[manitunc]

I do suspect it is a coverted bowrider. A lot of work was done on replacing the deck, adding a transom livewell and bracket and so forth, so not a lot remains other than the basic hull shell. I dont know how to move pics from my album to a post or I would put up more pics here

[Terry England]

I looked at your album. The Bowriders have the little shelves on each side like the Seafaris do that start about amidship and run to the transom. The caps have a little square 1-1/2” wide bullworks that run from the windshield back but not as high as the Sceprers have. I don’t see any of that stuff left and I can’t imagine what it would take to get rid of it. Your cap has just a little drip chamfer that runs around the vertical coaming that looks original. The guy that re-did the boat would have needed to build up the area just at the vertical part of the coaming. Look underneath the cap along that edge. If the inside surfaces of the cap rise a little before turning down then it is either an original cap or the guy made a new cap from a mold, which is highly unlikely. If it is an original cap than it must be a very early/prototype center console (CC), which some were I/O’s that would give you the full curved transom. The boat looks good.
I use mine for a freighter. Here’s a picture from 12/29/17 with at least a 1000#’s in it. Four of us rode out to the island with the little 90 making 18 knots at 4,000 - bow up.