Deadrise Rant About Small Boats

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Great post Bruce. Yes it is great to talk to some one that really understands boats and I’m still glad I got my 23 CC for all the reasons you stated.
It seems to me that Depending on the Size and purpose of the boat the things that are most important change. Flats and bay boats love a gentler dead rise. Trailer boat designed for off shore boating like a different approach all together and this is where our variable deadrise with longitudinal steps work the best. Then there are the “in water diesel fleet” that weight versed beam and length and many other factors make a bigger difference. I wish SeaCraft would have explored there Class of Boats to it’s max especially between 26 to 34 footers. To me the newer 25 footers are not a new design just a cheap way of expanding the 23’ and the 32 footer just never took off the way it could have / should have. I don’t think they put enough time in testing and thought they could just make a bigger foot print boat and get the same results as the got in the 20 through 25 foot size boats. Any which way I am glad I got mine and if I were to go with a bigger boat I would probably have to look elsewhere although. But in the back of my mind, I bet is you could find a older 32 SeaCraft and re do it to be a pretty good boat by making the stern look like the SeaVee or the Contender and put a live well back there.

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