Short SeaCraft OEM Video

[76Red18]

Alright already! I should have said choppy . Your not gonna see any "green" water ads because of liability. You know if the average fool sees somebody else doing something hes gonna try it also, most of the time resulting in failure. It's just good to see an ad with with a boat running in something besides a lake! The only thing that I've seen lately is a still shot of a 32' Whaler with the phrase "4 to 6 is still better than 9 to 5" and I didn't see any 6 footers in the picture.

[bigeasy1]

"Please,Please,Please, stop torturing me."

I've never actually been in any SeaCraft,but i'm hoping to have my 74 Tsunami in the water this coming year,(late summer).
I am going crazy trying to imagine the ride that everyone keeps talking about.

My fishing is all on the great lakes where a large percentage of time it always seems to be nasty,with 3-6's very close together.

In the spring we make a lot of runs west to the Niagara river bar(about 18 miles),and have had to come back in those steep p.i.a close together waves.

I'm currently running a 22'Trophy and we could only make around 9-11 knots in that stuff.Anything faster and tackle was falling off the dash and shelfs.I feel like the boat is going to break in half,it sucks,although it's kind of funny listening to my buddies let out a moan every time we land.

I can't wait to get my Tsunami in the water,and fired up under the same conditions.My friends think i'm nuts for doing this restoration.They can't beleive that any 23' boat could ride as good as i told them that this Tsunami will.

I sure hope it's all everyone says it is,because i'm hoping i can say to all of them "See,i TOLD you so".

[76Red18]

When the wind kicks up down here, the waves are tight also. I'll look around and won't see anyone else and I'll keep fishin. Maybe I keep fishin because I'm a fool, but more likely its because I'm in a SeaCraft.

[76Red18]

I agree with JohnB. I saw nothing there that I wouldn't run a Seafari on plane in. the biggest I saw was maybe 3'. Just fun stuff. Show me the boat in a storm-driven 4-7, or 5-8. THAT would impress me.

Fr. Frank...... I read somewhere on here that you once got caught in those conditions and it took all your skills as a Captian to get back in. Is it something you would want to go through again? Who else on this site has been in storm driven 8's, were you comfortable, would want to do it again? I've had my 18 in some 5's that were about 5' apart against an out going tide in Boca Grande Pass and I wouldn't willingly want to do it again.

[JohnB]

My boat will testify to some standing 6 footers out in the gulf stream. We call them angry elephants, and your ride on their backs. A rogue wave hit us 25 miles out, and went OVER the top. I have had a few run-ins with Sebastian inlet that resulted in water over the windshield. Been caught in several nasty nighttime storms snapper fishing before I finally got radar. You can't run them wide open, but you can make a good 15-20 mph in some serious conditions. The only bad habit mine has, is in certain following seas, coming over Canaveral Bight, when the swells in the winter start to stack up, it feels like it would like to pitch pole to the side, but it never does. I think most deep V nosed boats do that. Since I put the 4 blade prop on, with the big 250, I can power my way through most of it without breaking the prop loose. With the 3 blade, it would blow out sometimes. It will be interesting to see how it does with the bracket.

[Capt Chuck]

We need a copy of this video!

"Trayder" has a copy. A few of us saw this video a couple of years ago at his house during the Newport get-together. Very impressive I must add.

BTW: Last year Mark and Myself discussed this video with Bill Potter while he was aboard our boats for a sea trial. He said he had one re-mastered on DVD and was supposed to get a copy to us.
(Yo Mark, Remember ?) I need to remind him of that

[Ikan Besar]

(Yo Mark, Remember ?) I need to remind him of that

yeah, you might need to remind him, that was actually in the Spring of '05 that we discussed that with him. If he has a copy it would be easy enough to burn off a few if he has the licensing right to do so (from the Brown's).

[Capt Chuck]

that was actually in the Spring of '05

Someone needs to be reminded when I was reminding

[Bigshrimpin]

I sent Bruce Brown films an email a few months ago. Apparently Bruce Brown hadn't seen the film since it was made in the 1970's. They are in contact with Potter and may be trying to restore the original film. Potter has the rights to the film, since potter paid for the film to be produced . . . so I think that it maybe available in the near future.

[1bayouboy]

I've been in pretty close together wind blown 3-5s before....following, slightly quatering sea, on our way in from 50 miles out. I have a 24' I/O and that was a long ride with constant throttle attention....climbing the back of a wave, falling off the front and accelerating down, then slogging into the back of the next wave and having to climb up it. Just keeping on plane was tough without slamming when we'd slide down the front of the waves. I think FrFrank in on with it's all about experience. Adjusting our course in that situation to more of a stern quarter helped a lot. I've gone out some inlets into a head sea with the tide going out where the waves were really close and steep....in the 4-6 range in an 18ft boat. It's definitely a pucker factor when you realize the wave height of the crests is a couple of feet above gunnel height. That was a day when we waited for the right opportunity to come about and rode one back in to stay inshore.