1978 Sceptre 23 repower with bracket, what is the best setup? Guidance needed!

[Old'sCool]

Originally Posted by whistler

Bushwacker, thanks. I read your "sticky", just was not sure how much translates to the 23, especially the cuddy.

I am in Birmingham Alabama, and keep the boat on Lewis Smith Lake. My boating is either on the lake (great striper fishing!) or I trailer to the Alabama Gulf coast or the Florida Panhandle. Last year, I trailered the boat to Ft. Lauderdale and crossed over to Bimini Bahamas for a week. Loved that and definitely plan to do Bahamas again.

Does anybody on the board have a potter era Sceptre 23 with the Hermco dual bracket and with a single 30" Zuk300? That seems to be the combo to have.

As far as getting the work done, I am willing to drive to find high quality at a reasonable cost. One stop shopping would be nice.

Doesn't Moose have this combo?

[whistler]

Got several quotes for Suzuki 300 and 250 (digital controls). Seems its right at 20K rigged with gauges and controls. The 250 is like 1K cheaper, so not worth the discount.
Seems that if I repower with new, add the bracket, replace the tank, and close in the transom - it will be all of 30K! Seems like for 30K, I can buy quite a bit of used boat with 4S power (twins even). Decisions, decisions...

[dginge]

What did you decide ?

[whistler]

For now I decided to hold off. It is difficult to justify spending $30k on a toy, considering I only used it about 20 hours this season. Instead, I spent a little time and money servicing my Merc 200 EFI. Its thirsty and smokey, but its already there and works great...when it does I replaced the stator and trigger and voltage regulators and hope that will resolve the intermittent problems I was having.

I still plan to re-power and add a bracket, but just not right now.