25' Potter CC?

[workinpr0gress]

Anyone ever take an older 25 SC and turn it into a CC. I've been thinking about trying to get a hold of one to make a semi-custom bracketed cc.

[Trayder]

I was wondering/thinking the same this, as I bet you were, when I saw this from Strick's 25 restore:

[workinpr0gress]

My idea for it came about because the staggeringly low prices on 32's got my other half and I casually looking. I have been on 2 and they just weren't as convincing as the size makes you think. Feels to wide and heavy, wet. Aestheticly it's definitely pretty but proportionately a little long for me. That got me thinking how pretty the 25 hull is. I'd hate to cut up a decent one but if I could find a rough one.....MAN. I have it kinda in my mind as to the perfect boat for me. Merritt style helm console all white no varnish, refrigerated bait box under port rear seat, head, bonded teak/sikaflex deck and everything else whited out in awlgrip, 30" bracket for twins, 48" two step casting platform each 24" step stripped in teak to match the floor and throw the cast net from. Recessed 23 style handrail, 2 livewell leaning post, fresh and saltwater washdown in leaning post, transom fish box, 200 gal. fuel

Stop! I'm drooling all over myself!

[workinpr0gress]

Yeah Buddy.....do it up like a lot of guys do to the old Bertrams

[Bigshrimpin]

Bruce - Strick has another project 25 if you are looking to do the conversion. We were talking on the phone the other day about this topic. He was telling me how easy it would be to convert one to a CC. About a year or 2 ago . . . there was a 25 seafari (converted to CC) that bigfluke bought and had shipped to Hawaii. It was a Tuna boat from chatham with a HUGE slush box that could hold a Giant Tuna. Bigfluke mentioned somewhere that there was Huge fishbox when full balanced that boat out perfectly.

[Trayder]

Tim-

You are rather well versed at:

1: Shipping SeaCrafts x-country
2: Collecting all sizes (I note a 25 is missing)18,20(x2),23
3: Buying a garage, errr home with enough room to work on 25
4: Collecting enough outboards to power it with quads


that I think Strick's other 25 has you name all over it......

[Snookerd]

Tim-

You are rather well versed at:

1: Shipping SeaCrafts x-country
2: Collecting all sizes (I note a 25 is missing)18,20(x2),23
3: Buying a garage, errr home with enough room to work on 25
4: Collecting enough outboards to power it with quads


that I think Strick's other 25 has you name all over it......

Tim-We all know your a boat rebuilder disguised as a computer tech........C'mon, Jason is right............2 25's ( here we go again part II ) being totally rehabed with 2 different configs.......we would all be drooling!

[seafari25]

At first, when I read this I was thinking...WHAT? There are only 10 or so that we know of out there, it would be the same as when that guy cut the cap off of the seavette. However, when I thought about it for a moment...it's Strick and Tim we're talking about here. If they saved the cap and didn't like the CC, they could change it back tout de suite(toot sweet)

Bruce, it's one thing if you were to find one previously chopped up but maybe you and the wife might like it with the cap...

[workinpr0gress]

I wouln't do it to a boat that was all there. I would do up a 23 cc before keeping an original 25, just my preference is a cc. I could always lengthen a 23, that would be easy...lol. Doable just build a jig around the section of boat you want to split, cut in half run new stringers then get happy with a tape measurer, makeshift mold, some wood, glass and epoxy and cabosil. Seriously though it is doable but an undertaking. Plus I would only ever cut up a far gone 23. Plastic boats are pretty straight forward for that stuff but I'd basically be making a new boat with the time involved. I dunno I don't have time for all that anymore.