Is this where Boat Builders Annonomous meets? - Page 2

Bushwacker · #11 10-28-2010, 12:08 PM

Jeff, here's another idea for shape of the cabin top, the Moesly 27 Seamaster from Carla's web site, sort of a Seafari on steroids! BTW, you'll enjoy that web site - Moesly is also a pilot, and with over 13,000 hours, he's flown most of the WWII vintage aircraft!

Here's some shots of a 27 near me that was for sale a year or so ago.

Denny

wildlandjeff · #12 10-28-2010, 03:48 PM

Thanks I do like the way the forward cabin curves to the foredeck.

Bushwacker · #13 10-28-2010, 10:40 PM

Sadie looks like a good boat dog! Here's my lab/greyhound mix, Shadow, a 40 mph couch potatoe/lizard chaser! She loves the boat!

Fr. Frank · #14 10-28-2010, 11:08 PM

Denny, that's actually a 27' SeaVilla. The SeaMaster doesn't have the big side windows.

floorboy · #15 10-28-2010, 11:10 PM

Looks like quite a project your undertaking.... Are you going to fill in the top of the transom extension?? Might look cool to leave the top open and extend just the bottom to hang the motors on?? Like a bracket on steriods?
You probably have other plans, just an idea.

My lab relaxing...

strick · #16 10-29-2010, 03:09 AM

I like it! Welcome to the club. We need more brothers on this side of the country. Looking forward to seeing it come along. Your gonna love that boat....I had entertained the idea of buying it when it first came up for sale a couple years ago but I did not know what the heck I would do with it. Wish I had your vision

strick

wildlandjeff · #17 10-30-2010, 12:41 AM

Thanks Strick I've seen your work and if you had the desire or need for a boat like this you would have built it a long time ago.

This has to be the toughest 33 year old boat I have ever disasembled. I was a little worried with the loose tabbing in the bilge but that was limited to things like the shelf the tank and batteries sat on and not the lay up of the stringers. The liner is still well stuck to the top of the stringers and most of soft spots in the deck are a result of seat mountings and holes cut through the coreing not being sealed and limited to the immediate area.

A little careful sawsall work on the foam and out the tank came.

This crack was found under the Seavette rear cap it starts where you see and only goes half way down the in side. There are two cracks on the top of the deck in this same area on both sides of the old engine well but the stingers don't show any weakness or damage. I think when they patched the rotting transom the plates transfered the fore aft torque of the engines to the combing and deck rather than the hull and stringers.

Blue_Heron · #18 10-30-2010, 10:04 AM

Hey, Jeff, welcome to CSC. Although I hate to see a Seavette disappear because they're so rare, it looks like you're going to end up with an even rarer, one of a kind, 23 Seafari Seaburban. Good luck with the restoration. Looks like you're making rapid progress. You might have saved a lot of work if you could have found a 25 Seafari. If he hasn't already sold it, I think strick has a spare one laying around.

Dave

NoBones · #19 10-30-2010, 02:21 PM

Quote:

Denny, that's actually a 27' SeaVilla. The SeaMaster doesn't have the big side windows.

First off welcome to CSC Jeff, great to have another
imagineer on board..

Sorry to break it to you Fr. Frank...
It is a SeaMaster!
The SeaVilla has no flybridge.

Here is my project 27 SeaMaster in the back yard.

See ya, Ken

SBD · #20 11-02-2010, 09:53 AM

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Really I wanted to look at just the relationship between the windshield and hull lines the paper was to keep your eyes focused on that and not what held it up there.

We've all done this. That said...I'm not feeling it. The hull and windshield have lots of rake and angularity and the abruptness of the "pop up" looks out of place.

Not trying to be a jerk, just some honest input before you spend a lot of time and money. Good luck.