Outboard Options for Classic 20

Fr. Frank · #22 01-10-2011, 07:42 PM

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we were donated a Laser that proclaimed in big letters that its name was "Blow Me." We coaches stripped those graphics off about five minutes after taking possession of the sailboat).

Hilarious...
I grew up sailing in Midwest - ...
After recently finding my 21', I told my wife no more boats. But next one will be a Montgomery 17.

I grew up in the 60's with both powerboats and sailboats. My grandfather owned a 45' Rybovich sportfisherman and a yawl-rigged 41' Morgan.
My father owned a 1923 40' Matthews (only 9' beam) and a 19' Aristo, and a great-uncle owned a brand-new '69 SeaCraft Seafari with a 105hp Chrysler, which later became my grandfather's boat. That's when I first fell in love with SeaCraft. I used that boat like it was mine (I even called it "my boat").

My first boat came in early '68 at the age of 8, when my brother and I bought an 8' wooden center-board sailing punt. (We later bought a 9.9hp Chrysler for that boat.)

The first SeaCraft I actually purchased was a 23' SF with twin 115 Mercury inline 6 motors. I picked that up in '83 while I was working at a Seacraft dealership. Later that same year I bought my grandfather's old Seafari from my cousin, who had rigged it with an inline 150hp Mercury.