seacraft 27 1978-1980s

[Snookerd]

76red18-Happy B-Day

[charrisonfish]

Pictures of my 27' C/C
http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/l...h/SN850081.jpg
http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/l...h/SN850080.jpg
http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/l...ofSN850074.jpg
http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/l...h/SN850071.jpg
http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/l...h/SN850079.jpg
http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/l...h/SN850077.jpg
http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/l...ofSN850068.jpg
http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/l...ofSN850067.jpg

[eggsuckindog]

The new design came out when I was still selling them so that had to be late late 70's and was a complete new design. Went for a ride in Tampa Bay off Gandy and it was an outboard - the motors were getting big enough.

[toddslures]

Gerard,
You can see mine in the photo gallery on the front page of this site before the re-build began and the tear down. Then follow the link Trayder posted to the current progress.
I am also upgrading to the Verado 300's for power, had 275's(never mounted). When she was running with the 225 Oceanrunners she would cruise about 30-32 and top out in the mid 40's, that was also with bottom paint and no bracket.

[Snookerd]

and was a complete new design.

Are you saying the hull is not the same basic hull as Kerneltugboats 1969 27'?

[Trayder]

That is the point I was trying to make it is a totally different animal fundamentally sure it has the Variable Deadrise but I am 99.9% sure it is a different mold/design from the Mosely 27.

[Snookerd]

Jason-
My bad. hmmmmm. I am just looking at the front VDH panels and where they start on the hull. The hulls look identical to me. Any Potter comments/marketing material???

[kerneltugboat]

Jason,

Just to add more confusion, when my boat was at the Glass shop, a 1986 27 CC came in for service. The boats were side by side and the hulls seemed identical except for the way the rear transom was made, the new one was straight like the 23 and mine has the angled section for the outdrives like they did on a lot of boats in that time-frame. The interesting part is when I first got the boat, I e-mailed Bill Potter and he said it was made from a mold that they eventually sold to the Merrit brothers??? If I had to bet my life, all the 27's came from the same mold, or a copy of the original, and the changes were in the cap and transom.

[Capt Chuck]

FYI
A few years back, Potter told me that CSY only took the molds & the tooling for the 23' & 27" SeaCrafts and gave it a try for one year. That was circa '81-'82 time frame. I don't think they changed it

[Snookerd]

or a copy of the original

So, based on Kerneltugboat -- Potter sells the 27 mold in the early 70's to the Merrit Bros. and then around 1978-80 makes a plug of an existing 27, and reintroduces it with a totally new cap design(s)?????