350 Verado

[Fr. Frank]

Originally Posted by caper

Too heavy - looked in to it.

No, it is not too heavy. The 23' Seacraft was designed to hold up to twin V6 Evinrude Johnson 20" outboards, at 406 lbs each. I had a '77 23' SF rigged with twin 235 Evinrudes, a total of 822 lbs, and even had a dry deck as long as I didn't walk to the very back of the boat

(Yes, I know it was only rated for 400 hp in 1977, but that's because nobody built anything more powerful in '77. The 1978/79 Savage, Sceptre 23', and Seavette 23' were all rated for 500 hp. I don't remember what the '78/79 Superfisherman was rated for)

It will easily carry a single 686 lb V-rod 350 hp outboard.
The last of the 23' SeaCrafts in 2006-2009 were often factory rigged with up to twin 150 hp Verado's at 510 lbs each, for a total of 1020 lbs. The Tournament Edition 26 Seacrafts of 2009 were available with twin 250 hp Verado's, for a total of 1270 lbs of motors, and they were actually only 24' 4" plus a built-in flotation bracket.

[wrecked03]

Should have added I have the Hermco designed for twins.

[Bigshrimpin]

with a 25" transom 700lbs is too much weight. If you drift in even 1ft seas you'll take water over the transom. Add 2 regular size humans (from 2018, not 1973 skinny people) in the back and you have wet feet. The newer 23's have 30" transoms, higher floors, and different weight distribution. I still would try to keep the weight under 600lbs. I helped rig a 350 zuke on a 24 silverhawk this year and it's overkill IMO. When the wind/seas pick up, you still have to slow down to 20knots. It's a lot harder to lift the azz and stay on plane when you have a larger badonkadonk.

These 23's were designed for inline 6 115's (275lbs each) and Johnrude v4 115's and 135's (271lbs). 2thristy5's didn't come around until 1976/1977.

[Blackfin26]

Bigs, I fished next to that Silverhawk with the 350 zuk off Chatham a few weeks ago. Looked like it sat well.
Fr. Frank, The '09 26 TE and MA do not have a built in bracket. Hull extends fully to transom.

[Bigshrimpin]

Originally Posted by Blackfin26

Bigs, I fished next to that Silverhawk with the 350 zuk off Chatham a few weeks ago. Looked like it sat well.
Fr. Frank, The '09 26 TE and MA do not have a built in bracket. Hull extends fully to transom.

Eric's Silverhawk has a big dusky flotation bracket and it flys. The motor is a MONSTER.

[Blackfin26]

Makes sense...a big motor though. Nice set up for navigating inlets and rips.

[Fr. Frank]

Originally Posted by Blackfin26

Bigs, I fished next to that Silverhawk with the 350 zuk off Chatham a few weeks ago. Looked like it sat well.
Fr. Frank, The '09 26 TE and MA do not have a built in bracket. Hull extends fully to transom.

I know the hull extends back, but back in the day (crap, does saying that make old?) we used to call those "euro platforms", and I guess I still got the mind-set to think of them as platforms.

[Snookerd]

Originally Posted by Blackfin26 Bigs, I fished next to that Silverhawk with the 350 zuk off Chatham a few weeks ago. Looked like it sat well.
Fr. Frank, The '09 26 TE and MA do not have a built in bracket. Hull extends fully to transom

The 2009 23TE and 26MA are rare boats.....different beam and LOA than a 23SF. Only a handful out there.

[Fr. Frank]

Originally Posted by Bigshrimpin

Tim, you look at the left side of that pic of Frank Brown's place, and go up and over the embankment, 75' across PGA Blvd, and down the opposite embankment, and that was the marina I used to manage, Waterway Marina. When Frank let go of his SeaCraft dealership status, we picked up SeaCraft as one of our lines of boats we sold.

And so began my love of SeaCrafts.

[Snookerd]

Originally Posted by Fr. Frank

Tim, you look at the left side of that pic of Frank Brown's place, and go up and over the embankment, 75' across PGA Blvd, and down the opposite embankment, and that was the marina I used to manage, Waterway Marina.

Fr. Frank-My dad was good friends will Bill Soverel who built his sailboats on the same property as Waterway Marina. They sailed a Soverel 48 to Annapolis for the boat show around 1980. We made a Bahamas run in Bill's personal 48 (hull#8) original known as Cavu and was renamed Tenatious.