New Sea Craft

[FELLOW-SHIP]

I was at Outdoor World yesterday mostly because I was a little board and didn’t want to sit around watching TV all afternoon. At the Outdoor World here in Dania Florida they always have a good supply of SeaCrafts in stock SOOO since I wasn’t doing anything anyway I looked at the NEW 23 CC and the 25 CC and came to a conclusion “If I was in the market for a NEW boat 23’ long I think I would buy a NEW one”, for a few reasons. Now you guys all know I re did my 1976 and am totally happy with that. But not everyone has the ability, time, patience, and beer to re do a boat. Most guys want to buy new because they cant or would never consider a project boat. So I looked at the SeaCrafts from that point of view and concluded that the 23’ CC if still a great choice. Both in design and in COST the one I looked at was something like $48,000 or so and that’s not bad for a 23’ boat with a 225 merc on the back with a Very Good T-Top and Leaning Post Seat. As for the 25’ at $70,000 with twin 200 merc. No Way not enough boat and too much great competition out there on 27’ CC in that price range with a bigger foot print and such. As for quality control I thing we all have a big ??? regarding that part “Time Will Surely Tell” and for me I wouldn’t want to make any final decision while the jury is out. Unfortunately it’s a up hill battle for SeaCraft to convince the public that there a boat company that can be trusted again. If I were them I would do what Evenrude did to help win over the public again by truly building a better product and by giving a warranty that gave people the sense of confidence needed for they to put their name on the dotted line. I think we all remember and will not forget “I have a Little Problem” and the reluctance of SeaCraft to go one step beyond to prove their commitment to excellence for THEIR NAME SAKE no matter if it fell into the exactness of the warranty or not. People look for someone or something they can TRUST. SeaCraft needs to be more that fare and a company ALL can trust. Sometimes loosing a battle can help win a war.
Anyway I still like the 23 CC and for the 25 they should stretch it out to 27 to 28’ with the same power and cost and that one would be a winner as well. As for the 32’ personally I think that a un bracketed boat with a above the deck large live well is required feature to compete with the rest of the bigger CC boat builders out there.
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