Stretched 23' seacraft hull thoughts...

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Originally Posted by FLexpat

From the sounds of it, the 27 would weigh pretty much what your existing 23 weighs and maybe even less. While the 23 was not Carl's design it would be interesting to hear his comments if would make any. The more I think about it, the more I like it.

Carl built a few different 27's The seamaster 27, which has a much wider beam than the 23. Here is a 27 master angler, it has the same bottom half as the seamaster just made into a open hull:

http://www.classicseacraft.com/MA27.htm

The other 27ish hull which dose have a narrow beam would be mine and Sandy's race hulls. I believe the stretched 23 would fall some where in between the two.

In my mind it would be similar to the seavee , white water or earlier contenders which were just a stretched formula 223 basically. Longer hulls with a narrow beam. They still have some bow flare but not as wide or tall like the seamaster or other wide beam 27's. It would act more like a performance cigar cc with the narrow beam. Cigarette and Scarab comes to mind. You would gain in some places and loose in others. For a offshore tournament fishing boat where you do a lot of fast running it may do well. For a short runs, putt around, diving or trolling you would suffer in stability badly. I think it would be a cool thing to try. There are tons of narrow beam cc's out there. Some ride good and some not so much. I don't know how the VDR would do in this case but I would be curious to know....