77 23' Savage

[bdolnik]

I'm in Satellite Beach (on the East Coast south of Cocoa Beach). The boat is at a marina in Palm Bay, will be kept in a water slip. Should be about a 20 minute run to Sebastian Inlet from there

Would love to attend the next Florida gathering as long as I can get to it by water, don't have a trailer.

[NoBones]

Hey Bryan,
We have quite a few CSC people in East Central.
Capt. Brad is in Melbourne, Capt Lloyd is in Merritt Isl.
I'm right on the Volusia/Brevard line.
Capt Chuck is in Stuart and 65 Bowrider in N Palm Beach,
plus there are a bunch more. Maybe we should plan a
Brevard are get together.....
Good Luck with the Savage. Ken

[bdolnik]

We have quite a few CSC people in East Central...

A whole bunch of us Seacraft owners here in Brevard. Well hopefully I'll get to use mine soon! I can't wait to get it going.

[doodlebug]

Ken,where is it going to be and when,The tall one only
camps in hotels or the motor home and it's ready to go

[Ryank]

That is defintely not the boat I was looking at, The one I considered was white and it was running, But you have a great boat there! I hope you got a good price on her, and I hope you show us pictures once you're done! Congrats!!!

[65Bowrider]

Ok NoBones...you just committed to organizing a gathering on THIS SIDE of the state.
Just tell me WHEN & WHERE...WE'LL BE THERE!!!

[1bayouboy]

Spacers.......on inboards and I/Os the engine is down in the hull.....the exhaust manifolds have risers on them...they go up...and then down to the exhaust...through the prop usually for an I/O, or through some muffler system and transom for an inboard. The spacer raises the height of the riser even higher....that's so a wave doesn't force water into the engine through the exhaust...there are flapper valves in the exhausts as well....but it's all to keep that evil water out.

[Gary Hill]

BRAYND,
The easy way here is buy the long block and rebuild the carb or buy new. Fresh water cooling is a good way to go, it saves the engine, two years ago I put in a new engine and trans. looking back I would have just had the trans rebuilt, I gave the whole works to a friend of a friend for his SEACRAFT and he has done nothing with it, but it was fresh water cooled and still a 76 unit running good. I was going to pull the motor and update it, when my wife said, "what are you stupid", I made the comment if I had to pull the engine/trans I would put a new engine/trans in. I put a new unit in and I put 3" spacers in to help keep out water ingestion into the engine, I think is the way to go. I went from a 351 233 to a 350, 315 hp good move so far, I have two friends each with 225 four sroke on 23 foot boat's and while running at 3200 rpm I get the gass milage they do.

[bdolnik]

I put 3" spacers in to help keep out water ingestion into the engine, I think is the way to go.

I bet I'm going to have a BUNCH of questions for you First off what does the 3" spacers mean?

The motor I'm looking at is a 350 carburated rated at 300hp. I could go fuel injected for an extra $1000 or so and get 330hp. I think I like the simplicity of the carb though.

[GetReel]

Good luck. Having gutted a 1975 IB which is basically the same setup, I can respond with some experience:

Tanks under aft deck, 2 @ 50 gals +/-. If original replace. Keep them for fabricator to use. They are in tight and you may want them to be made 1/2 shallower because the decks sometimes ride on them. Also moisture collects under them so get expoxy coated tanks.

Drain plug is where you found it, not easy to get to. I suggest a rear bilge pump also near shaft log.

Your shaft should be 1 and qtr inch, if original, could be an issue with new engine torque....

If you can afford it, get a new bob-tail fuel injected engine. Also check and make sure that the EFI engine has a "cooling pot" for the hot unspent fuel to return to...

Most trans are 1 and a half turn. By the time you find everything to replace, easier and perhaps cheaper to go all new. Also, this is a heavy boat and you may want the EFI to save fuel.

Original engines were mostly Ford 351's, mine came with it.

Good luck, great boat.