25' Potter CC?

workinpr0gress · #1 01-11-2010, 12:07 PM

Anyone ever take an older 25 SC and turn it into a CC. I've been thinking about trying to get a hold of one to make a semi-custom bracketed cc.

Trayder · #2 01-11-2010, 12:49 PM

I was wondering/thinking the same this, as I bet you were, when I saw this from Strick's 25 restore:

workinpr0gress · #3 01-11-2010, 02:22 PM

My idea for it came about because the staggeringly low prices on 32's got my other half and I casually looking. I have been on 2 and they just weren't as convincing as the size makes you think. Feels to wide and heavy, wet. Aestheticly it's definitely pretty but proportionately a little long for me. That got me thinking how pretty the 25 hull is. I'd hate to cut up a decent one but if I could find a rough one.....MAN. I have it kinda in my mind as to the perfect boat for me. Merritt style helm console all white no varnish, refrigerated bait box under port rear seat, head, bonded teak/sikaflex deck and everything else whited out in awlgrip, 30" bracket for twins, 48" two step casting platform each 24" step stripped in teak to match the floor and throw the cast net from. Recessed 23 style handrail, 2 livewell leaning post, fresh and saltwater washdown in leaning post, transom fish box, 200 gal. fuel

#4 01-11-2010, 03:33 PM

Stop! I'm drooling all over myself!

workinpr0gress · #5 01-11-2010, 04:25 PM

Yeah Buddy.....do it up like a lot of guys do to the old Bertrams

Bigshrimpin · #6 01-11-2010, 05:15 PM

Bruce - Strick has another project 25 if you are looking to do the conversion. We were talking on the phone the other day about this topic. He was telling me how easy it would be to convert one to a CC. About a year or 2 ago . . . there was a 25 seafari (converted to CC) that bigfluke bought and had shipped to Hawaii. It was a Tuna boat from chatham with a HUGE slush box that could hold a Giant Tuna. Bigfluke mentioned somewhere that there was Huge fishbox when full balanced that boat out perfectly.

strick · #7 01-14-2010, 03:47 AM

The 25 is a sharp looking hull and it would convert to a cc easily however it is kinda short back near the stern with the cap off. For safety (due to the deep V) you would want to raise it some like the one Big Fluke now owns....not to say that a Master angler cap style would take away from the lines very much...you would have to do some drawings first and see I guess. Personally I think it would be easier to just take a 23cc and make it a little longer if that is what you are after raher then taking a 25 and cutting down stringers, making a new cap, modifying the inside of the boat etc..etc...There were a couple of fellas on ClassicMako that added length to their 23 makos and they turned out very nice. I would also hate to see a 25 seafari get chopped up like that.

strick

workinpr0gress · #8 01-14-2010, 07:36 AM

Wish there were some plug boats around.

Fr. Frank · #9 01-14-2010, 11:55 AM

With the boat business as slow as it is, it would be pretty inexpensive right now to make a plug off an existing hull. I know Monterey boats in Williston just 25 miles up the road from me is doing a lot of overhauling and customizing of older boats just to keep the doors open.

Likewise, Pro-Line here in town has laid off more than half their workforce, and is also doing extra stuff to bring in cash flow. I know one of the Vice Pres. there (He is a former SeaCraft owner). I'll call him and get a ballpark figure for popping a rigid hull mold off a 25' or 27' SeaCraft would cost there at Pro-Line, assuming the hull was prepped first. I'll try to post the $$$ later today.

kerneltugboat · #10 01-14-2010, 12:58 PM

Thats a good pont, another option would be a hull from an Albin 26 CC (Cape Cod Marine Inboard Diesel) Rumor was the boat was made from a 23 Seacraft stretched to 26' and the tunnel was from a Proline. They also raised the gunnels about 3" They were making a Duoprop version with no pocket, so the mold does exist. Sounds like exactly what he needs.