Boat porn of a 25 Seafari beasty

[1bayouboy]

Since it seems a rare beast I thought I'd gratify the need for some boat
porn with some shots of a 25 Seafari up the road from me.....it's quite
the hog. The hull is very deep, with high gunnels. Not much deck space with
the side to side engine cover. The scuppers are in the floor at the corners
at the front of the engine box, but they exit the hull through the side...you
can see them in the side shots. The VDH angles look like 25, 17, and 14 plus
or minus a degree. This thing would definitely slice the waves. The cabin
is large with a storage space in front of the helm and a recess for a head
in front of the passenger. Enjoy.....




Bow shot



Stern shot



Deadrise angles look like 25, 17 and 13....



Starboard shots





Port shots





Helm, deck and engine cover











Cabin



Bottom and blister closeup

[SC302FB]

Looks like a good canidate for a bracket and twin 250's. I like the "flasher" depth finder.

[mbo_1971]

Looks like a good canidate for a bracket and twin 250's. I like the "flasher" depth finder.

agree 1000%

surprised Strick has not picked it up yet.

[strick]

Darrel- Thanks for taking the time to do that. We don't have too many photos of that model SeaCraft on the site. BTW what did you do to your hand? looks like you shoved it into a meat grinder

MBO- one of these days

The engine box on that boat is interesting... I'm surprised that SeaCraft would even design something like that eating up most of the deck space.


Here are some photos that I found recently on Photobucket doing a search for seaCraft. I've left the pics large because I did not have time to down size them right now. I hate to see people treat a nice boat like this. I have no idea who took the photos or who owns the boat. Looks like S. Florida from the pics.





strick

[1bayouboy]

Since it's rare I wanted to get some photos for everyone to check out...

For my hand, last month I got a 1/2 inch gash across the top of my left thumb....nothing much...3 stitches. But after getting the stitches removed it turned out I cut the extensor tendon.....so then surgery to fix it and now I'm in the contraption in the photo for another 5 weeks or more. It hindering my shrimping (with castnets here in Charleston) and boat projects in a big way. C'est la vie...at least everything is still attached.

Those are cool shots you posted....especially the side view on the blocks....you can really see the how sllek the hull looks. That engine box pretty much ate up all the space...I thought it was interesting that they'd do that.

[ScottM]

Comparing the 2 boats, it looks like the twin setup (yellow) had the full width engine box whereas a single (white) had a typical engine box.

I posted this before, but when I had the chance to meet Bill Potter a few years ago, he told me the 25 was his favorite SC. He said it rides like a dream but rolls something fierce with all that deadrise and narrow beam.

[Fr. Frank]

Strick said

Looks like S. Florida from the pics.

I was wondering if that was the 1st 25' Seafari I ever saw. It was up on blocks with gil brackets all rusted out, but I don't remember the motors. Landscape looked just like that, too. Wasn't S. FL., though. It was New Providence Island, Bahamas, near the Royal Bahamian Defense Force base.

[NoBones]

Strick said

I was wondering if that was the 1st 25' Seafari I ever saw. It was up on blocks with gil brackets all rusted out, but I don't remember the motors. Landscape looked just like that, too. Wasn't S. FL., though. It was New Providence Island, Bahamas, near the Royal Bahamian Defense Force base.

If you look real close at the bow shot you can just make out what was left of the FL numbers, maybe some one can
see them better then me.

See ya, Ken

[strick]

I was wondering if that was the 1st 25' Seafari I ever saw. It was up on blocks with gil brackets all rusted out, but I don't remember the motors. Landscape looked just like that, too. Wasn't S. FL., though. It was New Providence Island, Bahamas, near the Royal Bahamian Defense Force base.

Frank- That picture can be from anywhere. If you do a search on photobucket you can find the boat and the handle of the person who posted the pics. Maybe someone could try and e-mail the person just to find out were the boat is.

Strick

[CaptLloyd]

Strick said

I was wondering if that was the 1st 25' Seafari I ever saw. It was up on blocks with gil brackets all rusted out, but I don't remember the motors. Landscape looked just like that, too. Wasn't S. FL., though. It was New Providence Island, Bahamas, near the Royal Bahamian Defense Force base.

This boat is definitely in the Bahamas, check the front license plate on the car, plus the landscape (it looks like the Abacos to me). Imagine the hoops you would have to jump thru to get this boat retitled in the states Is the Bahamas Chapter of CSC ready to take on this project?

Lloyd