Boat porn of a 25 Seafari beasty

[strick]

Darrel- Thanks for taking the time to do that. We don't have too many photos of that model SeaCraft on the site. BTW what did you do to your hand? looks like you shoved it into a meat grinder

MBO- one of these days

The engine box on that boat is interesting... I'm surprised that SeaCraft would even design something like that eating up most of the deck space.


Here are some photos that I found recently on Photobucket doing a search for seaCraft. I've left the pics large because I did not have time to down size them right now. I hate to see people treat a nice boat like this. I have no idea who took the photos or who owns the boat. Looks like S. Florida from the pics.





strick

[1bayouboy]

Since it's rare I wanted to get some photos for everyone to check out...

For my hand, last month I got a 1/2 inch gash across the top of my left thumb....nothing much...3 stitches. But after getting the stitches removed it turned out I cut the extensor tendon.....so then surgery to fix it and now I'm in the contraption in the photo for another 5 weeks or more. It hindering my shrimping (with castnets here in Charleston) and boat projects in a big way. C'est la vie...at least everything is still attached.

Those are cool shots you posted....especially the side view on the blocks....you can really see the how sllek the hull looks. That engine box pretty much ate up all the space...I thought it was interesting that they'd do that.

[ScottM]

Comparing the 2 boats, it looks like the twin setup (yellow) had the full width engine box whereas a single (white) had a typical engine box.

I posted this before, but when I had the chance to meet Bill Potter a few years ago, he told me the 25 was his favorite SC. He said it rides like a dream but rolls something fierce with all that deadrise and narrow beam.

[Fr. Frank]

Strick said

Looks like S. Florida from the pics.

I was wondering if that was the 1st 25' Seafari I ever saw. It was up on blocks with gil brackets all rusted out, but I don't remember the motors. Landscape looked just like that, too. Wasn't S. FL., though. It was New Providence Island, Bahamas, near the Royal Bahamian Defense Force base.

[NoBones]

Strick said

I was wondering if that was the 1st 25' Seafari I ever saw. It was up on blocks with gil brackets all rusted out, but I don't remember the motors. Landscape looked just like that, too. Wasn't S. FL., though. It was New Providence Island, Bahamas, near the Royal Bahamian Defense Force base.

If you look real close at the bow shot you can just make out what was left of the FL numbers, maybe some one can
see them better then me.

See ya, Ken

[1bayouboy]

And look at those fixtures on the console.....they look like one piece fuel tank bolt on plates with fill tube, vent tube, and dual pick-up tubes....

[strick]

I was wondering if that was the 1st 25' Seafari I ever saw. It was up on blocks with gil brackets all rusted out, but I don't remember the motors. Landscape looked just like that, too. Wasn't S. FL., though. It was New Providence Island, Bahamas, near the Royal Bahamian Defense Force base.

Frank- That picture can be from anywhere. If you do a search on photobucket you can find the boat and the handle of the person who posted the pics. Maybe someone could try and e-mail the person just to find out were the boat is.

Strick

[Bigshrimpin]

Whoever took those pictures captured just the right angles to show off the hull's deadrise.

Look at the dead rise on the back of that boat and the gradual reverse chine on the front of the inner steps.
Wow . . . what a hull

Is the 27' a stretched version of this 25?

[1bayouboy]

The spec sheet says 25.5 degrees.....the next panel out is around 17 and the next is around 14.....interesting...the 23' is 21, 13 and 10......so they differ by the same amount....8 degrees and 3 degrees. But at 25 degrees that
about as sharp as any boat I've ever heard about. Even the vaunted deep V CCs of today are generally "only" 24 degrees.

[Bigshrimpin]

The only boat that I know of that's more than 25.5 degrees is the bertram barron 28 (28 degrees at the transom).