25 seafari

[dirtwheelsfl]

I figure ill be in for about 1/3 of what a 15 yr old cookie cutter "top tier" 25 with original motors is going for these days. Lucky to have generous builder friends around here!

I find i sleep better when i only keep receipts of the things i might need to return

Thanks for the link, i wrote him Monday actually. Said hes still got it but was distracted with another project at the moment. Told him to keep me in mind. He got it for free so ive got that going in my favor i think, fingers crossed.

[cdavisdb]

" i only keep receipts of the things i might need to return"

Roger that.

How much did my 25 cost me this year???? Damn if I know and I intend to keep it that way. The only other ones I keep are repair records so I can remember what's been done, trying not to remember the price pain.

[dirtwheelsfl]

Cant take it with ya when youre gone they say!

[flyingfrizzle]

Big fluke purchased this one that was converted to a cc many years ago. He took 3 hulls down to Hawaii and done some design work based on the hull bottom. There is a cool thread up here about that and a hull with killer race drive. He would have good info on the cc conversion and maybe BIGSHRIPIN can give you the link to the site that shows the stuff he done based of the 25 hull? Seems like they build a complete hull based off the 25 and modified one of the original hulls that he had with sponsons sp? grafted to the bottom. Edit: found pics and added them below of the test hull and the one off based off it. Shrimpin could tell you more about it than me tho...

[dirtwheelsfl]

Those RIBs are neat! Ill have to check those out

[cdavisdb]

"Too many years ago" Hmmm, seems like yesterday. Spent a lot of time in both 23 Formulas and Seafaris. Terry's right, down south, large opening windows are the cat's meow.

[thehermit]

Richie Carvalho's old 25 looks so bad ass. How was the ride?

[Bigshrimpin]

Originally Posted by thehermit

Richie Carvalho's old 25 looks so bad ass. How was the ride?

http://www.classicseacraft.com/commu...232#post169232

Originally Posted by bigfluke

Blackfin,
I did buy the SeaCraft 25' in Massachusetts that wss converted to a center console by a commercial fisherman. He really knew what he was doing: removing the foredeck cabin and building a fishbox from the footwell to the forward end of the v-berth inner liner shifted the lcg forward and kept the vcg as low as possible. From what I understand the fishbox was always full of ice or fish so his set up is much as Moesly envisioned with his ballasting system. He also moved the helm aft a bit which is a lot more comfortable then the original helm about 2' more forward. With the big block sterndrive giving it adequate stern weight, it runs much better than the other two SeaCraft 25s I have that were originally rigged with a smal block sterndrive and the other that I retrofitted with a single large outboard on a porta-bracket. Excellent seakeeping out to about 22 knots. Above that speed needs to be driven very attentively and with constant tab adjustment to keep upright in rough water or it will loll.

[Blackfin26]

Nice find Bigshrimpin...I was just going to look for that.

[thehermit]

Originally Posted by Bigshrimpin

http://www.classicseacraft.com/commu...232#post169232

Bad ass!
Blackfin....did you ever save any pix of the 25 CC?