23' SF Ride - Wow!!!

peterb · #1 05-11-2005, 11:13 PM

Last Friday I took my brother-in-law out in the 23' SF. It was a snotty day. We were off the tip of Sandy Hook at a place called Romer Shoal. There had to be a 3 to 5 foot chop out there. The SeaCraft was amazing. Whenever we hit a trough my instincts would say get ready for a shot to the kidneys. Instead of taking a pounding the SeaCraft would land like it had shocks.

My BIL is pretty picky about boats and I expected him to give me a hard time about buying a 1978 boat that still needs some work. Instead I found out through mutual friends that he thought it was an amazing ride.

He also likes the fact that the boat has twin 150 HP Yamaha's. My only knock on the engines is that 850+pounds is alot of weight in the back (traditional tansom setup). When we anchored up to fish for bass the stern had a tendency to get spashed pretty good. I guess that's one of the reasons why people are buying the potter bracket.

FELLOW-SHIP · #2 05-12-2005, 09:15 AM

Ya Peter
You got that right seems that because of the 8’ beam and just 23’ long the flotation bracket is really the way to go. I have the 23 with one 225 with a 30” shaft and that works great but if I ever went to twins I would defiantly use his bracket. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
FellowShip

Briguy · #3 05-12-2005, 03:56 PM

I have wittnessed 15ft breakers near roamers shoals near the light. Wow that can be snotty. Raritan bay and Barnegat Inlet was where I grew up. As for the weight issue I have a floatation bracket and it didn't offset the 4 stroke 115's I have. No real complaint the boat sits well and I plug the scuppers. Anyhow my old 9ft 150 gal gas tank is history being replaced by a 5 1/2ft 95 gallon tank in the hopes of moving fuel forward and lifting the stern. I will let all know how it does.

PS my very good friend for over 10 years is a Whaler and Hydra Sport fanatic. Get a few beers in him and he will go on and on braging about the SeaCraft ride. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

Finster · #4 05-12-2005, 09:49 PM

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I have wittnessed 15ft breakers near roamers shoals near the light. Wow that can be snotty. Raritan bay and Barnegat Inlet was where I grew up.

Hey Briguy, I used to fish there all the time, roamers, old orchard, ect...You should see what Little Egg Inlet has turned into in the past few years. Holy crap! Changes every noreaster.
I don't know if you know the inlet or "G bouy", but it's up on Holgate now. Thats one bada** inlet if it's snotty or you don't know where your going.

Briguy · #5 05-13-2005, 03:06 PM

Finster, I remember being in little egg inlet when I was about 6. After catching monster blues and weekies at "2bs" with my dad we came back in little egg. We got caught in our 19.6 aquasport during a wind against the tide situation in fog no less. I never remember being scared when the 6' breaker hit us broadside and about 1' of water came over the gunnel. We ended up ok but our tacklebox floated out over the transom. From what I can remember it took about 10 minutes for all the water to drain out.

That wasn't the only time either.