New Member, Old Boat, Unsure of Year.

[Sparehead]

Hello All,

I’m new. I’ve been lurking for a while now and have been enjoying the site. A while back I came down with this irresistible urge to restore an old boat. That led to lots of research coupled with my personal preferences and to cut this story short I have a formerly unloved Seafari 20 sitting in my backyard under a portable garage. I think I saved it from being scrapped. I’m not in a rush and have been half-jokingly telling people I hope to have it all restored by retirement, which should be a long ways off. I should mention I’m no expert but I have worked with fiberglass before.

I got the boat with no outboard and a transom I assume is rotted. The hull otherwise looks pretty good. The worst damage I could find was what must have been a hit to the starboard rubrail which resulted in a little cracking at the joint and some stress cracking in the hullside gelcoat. The cap has been drilled into and will need re-coring too. I plan to take the boat down to the bare hull and build it back up using some of the newer synthetic core materials. I’d also like to eventually finish it off with an outboard bracket mounted to a full height transom.

My state doesn’t require it but I think I’d like to get a proper title anyway. The boat was last registered using another state’s registration number for its SN. I have the papertail on the boat but the last owner never registered it and thought it was a 1986, which was the year of the trailer. He only bought it for the outboard. I haven't had any luck in trying to contact the prior owner. I believe it’s an early 70s model and was hoping someone here might be able to help me pinpoint its year.

The original Seacraft tag is fixed inside the port cockpit area. The model is “20 OOB” and it has a four digit serial number starting with a 2. A few other distinguishing characteristics include a wide cut dual outboard transom (though it only had a single) and this boat has the four hollow stringers with foam between them.

Ken