23' Seabird

[Bushwacker]

Scott M may disagree, but I wouldn't necessarily put the Seabird in same class as a SeaCraft. There are a lot of good looking deep V's out there really don't ride all that well. I believe it may have a balsa core hull; if so could be a ton of work to restore if core is wet. Shipshape TV did a big restoration on one a couple of years ago so you might search their site for info on it. I made a 150 mile Bahamas trip with a 23' Seabird years ago and my 20' Seafari w/115 O/B had no trouble staying up with this much bigger boat. I was surprised because it has a VERY deep V, like 25-30 degrees of deadrise with no lifting strakes. My friend that owned the SeaCraft 21 that also ran with us claims that they screwed up what would have otherwise been a good riding hull by putting a big wide flat chine on it, so it still had a large flat surface that could pound. It takes a lot of power and fuel to get that deep a V on plane, so maybe they had to add the wide chines to get some lift out of it. Maybe no better in that respect than the traditional Ray Hunt deep V with lifting strakes used by Bertram, Wellcraft and others.