1972' Seafari 25 Rebuild Project

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You can access the farthest one up in cuddy like I did by cutting out a section to get to it and glassing it back in. It’ll make a loud bang as tension is released. Then you’ll have to wrangle it back in. I used jacks, weights, blocks of wood to wedge, clamp, and hold it together to glass back. Can’t tell I was there. I’m kind of wishing I’d taken cap off to do this but didn’t have ability or knowledge back then.

I’d also go back in time and put pvc tubes in bottom to act as drain tubes for water. Again something I learned through this process.





Here’s how I got to one fore of fuel tanks.

This is a decent sized space perfect for dry bags or batts. I’m going to put a hatch in here.





Storage:
I can’t find any space under deck for meaningful storage. That’s part of raising decks and why I’ll miss outboard idea. I have plans to put stuff under the cabin sole, put a hatch in there and under my grates by the cabin door.

Mid is out due to fuel tanks, aft is out due to engine, sides aft will take lots of work for very shallow access. I’m using coolers stored in cabin underway. and fish bags stern. I’m also going to put a swim deck on and use that area somehow.

I keep it pretty simple underway. Ditch bag, food bag, lure bag, ice cooler, fish bag. That’s about it.

Here’s my plan when I was going outboard.



But the guys talked me out of that. I’m going to but a teak engine cover there with sound/thermal insulation on inside. But I’m losing a huge storage space.
There is lots of room in the cabin area. Look there. It originally had shelves on both sides of interior