25 seafari

thehermit · #1 02-13-2019, 05:17 PM

Richie Carvalho's old 25 looks so bad ass. How was the ride?

Bigshrimpin · #2 02-14-2019, 02:14 PM

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Originally Posted by thehermit

Richie Carvalho's old 25 looks so bad ass. How was the ride?

http://www.classicseacraft.com/commu...232#post169232

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Originally Posted by bigfluke

Blackfin,
I did buy the SeaCraft 25' in Massachusetts that wss converted to a center console by a commercial fisherman. He really knew what he was doing: removing the foredeck cabin and building a fishbox from the footwell to the forward end of the v-berth inner liner shifted the lcg forward and kept the vcg as low as possible. From what I understand the fishbox was always full of ice or fish so his set up is much as Moesly envisioned with his ballasting system. He also moved the helm aft a bit which is a lot more comfortable then the original helm about 2' more forward. With the big block sterndrive giving it adequate stern weight, it runs much better than the other two SeaCraft 25s I have that were originally rigged with a smal block sterndrive and the other that I retrofitted with a single large outboard on a porta-bracket. Excellent seakeeping out to about 22 knots. Above that speed needs to be driven very attentively and with constant tab adjustment to keep upright in rough water or it will loll.

Blackfin26 · #3 02-14-2019, 03:23 PM

Nice find Bigshrimpin...I was just going to look for that.

thehermit · #4 02-14-2019, 09:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Bigshrimpin

http://www.classicseacraft.com/commu...232#post169232

Bad ass!
Blackfin....did you ever save any pix of the 25 CC?

Blackfin26 · #5 02-14-2019, 09:26 PM

Never saved any pics. I did talk to him about purchasing and thought long and hard about it. Hesitated a week and off to Hawaii it went.

Bigshrimpin · #6 02-15-2019, 09:00 AM

I found this from way back. This was the Kama II setup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln3Y1A_RNCM&t=4s