This was bought well before I got laid off so I can't return it - sorry honey :rollem: . But it is finally here in the yard, my new (to me) 79 23 foot SeaCraft center console:

http://www.theboatzone.com/albums/7923/hull2_s.jpg

More pics are here: http://www.theboatzone.com/gallery/7923?&page=3

Capesams - check out the pics :D

Clammer was already by and wants to go out this afternoon :laughs:

:D NICEEEEEEEE!!!!:happy: :happy: :happy:

John,
Congrats! Now you just neee to get her in the water.

All you need is just a little boat therapy to get your mind off of work....Congrats on the boat, I hope it's exactly how you hoped it to be.....:)

Nice=================the water is calling/

\ have to get a gas loan ///////////////

:claps: :claps: :bounce: :bounce:

Good Luck with her.. I like the slice of her bow. Outta cut through the snot really well.

Now the fun really begins.

For example.........
I have put the past two weekends (both days) working
on the boat. Seems I always want more/better stuff.

Finished the hydraulic steering saturday, and put the furuno 6100 in on sunday.
Still not quite done though.
Have a couple of small issues to deal with b4 I put in the slip.

Like owning a freakin home,,,,,the work never ends.:smash:

schweeeeeeeeet :happy:

good luck with it John!

can I have it:D

and since your already in the dog house, we'll have to get you a reel one fa ya boat. GOOD FOR YOU SHORTY, YOU JUST WAIT!:kewl:

Good luck with the new ride:)

YEA HOPE YA HAVE BETTER LUCK THAN ME N BIGCAT :D

what u forgot ta put your plug in??:rolleyes:

not me bubba :p

awesome....:) :D :) :D :) :D

thats a bad A$$ boat.:btu: so whens the surf tackle yard sale :laughs:

Sweeeeet rig John! My buddy has the same boat in Boston Harbor. The thing slices thru 4 footers like a knife thru butter. It's like the Caddy of boats. Good luck man.:claps: :claps:

Nice looking rig John. Have fun this summer.

Nice lookin boat John!! Looks like it fared well on the trip up.

Now that your not working you'll have to put some fish on the table, eh?:D

Thanks - looking forward to using once I sell the motors and get a single :)

Great ride John. Father owned one before moving to Florida. Saw it a few years back in Greenwich Cove(name- Jus Lookin'). Still a sharp looking boat. Handles the rough stuff easily. A single 235 is more than enough juice for that rig. Could you give me the name of the boat hauling firm that delivered the boat? I'm buying my Dad's 20' C-Hawk to use in Narragansett Bay area. Great $$. Just have to get it up here from FL.

very very nice ! john break a bottle of asti spumante on it instead of don perion.... best of luck! have you named her yet?

Raven - no name, stuck between two and I haven't decided yet... No champagne - fishguts :)

Bass Time - thanks! I'll keep an eye out for that boat. The hauling company was HCTransport http://hctransport.com out of Marion Mass. The price was better than anyone else by far - service was good too once he was able to schedule me in.

You'll need a facility down there that can forklift or travellift the boat onto the trailer and he can bring it to a place you designate or back to his yard.

Ask for Gregg Amaral and tell him that John that just got the Seacraft referred you.

Tel. 508-888-8797
Cell 508-726-9761

Nice boat John, if those rudes run, use em (they may sell easier if they can be seen running)and get out there. Saturday looks great winds < 10kts.

John,
Good luck with her (the boat I mean!:D )
Start the baby up and go feel the wind in your face!

BTW what is a Intertidal Anguiologist?

All i had was a skiff rowboat then , so i clamped on a keel , a piece of driftwood plywood I found on the beach and made a sail out of old lumber and a bed sheet. I went trolling in -> aucoot cove in mattapoisett heading towards Marion point and bird island (all covered in oil i heard) and zig zagged around the rock piles. I caught several blues and finally hooked up a huge striper that towed me halfway to bird island with two foot white caps . I saw that fish several times up close and it was at least 4 feet long really mad and mighty scary lookin.
Eventually drifting almost a mile from shore , i fought a little too hard on my light tackle and got snapped off.
Jimmy Craig of hockey fame, a goaly for the Boston Bruins, had to rescue me and tow me in with his dad's boat which was lucky because i was nearly into the stronger current of the shipping lanes. It was like the old man in the sea experience for me, and i was the won who actually got hooked. true story !;)

Sandman - "intertidal anguiologist" is something I made up that is supposed to sound like a fancy version of Eelslinger along the waters edge :D - well supposed too anyway. The certifiable is because my wife things I'm nuts/obsessed about fishing. Don't know what she means though...

Raven - BB is not where you want to be in a homemade turnabout :) - any idea what JC is up tp these days?

buzzards bay is a mess.... Jim Craig whom i havent spoke too in many years: ->last i heard is working for a communications company somewhere in mass. I didnt even know he was playing for the bruins until i saw the Russians play the Bruins and he was draped in the American Flag. He looked familiar and then i saw Hoppy his older brother and Mr craig both heading for the ice and never was so proud in my life being way up in the mountains of the desert in Southern California at the time.

He played in an old-timers game at the Ryan center(URI) this past winter.

John, why not use one of the evinrudes and sell the other, or keep it for parts, you gotta get that baby wet :cool:

Originally posted by toonoc
John, why not use one of the evinrudes and sell the other, or keep it for parts, you gotta get that baby wet :cool:

The transom is a 25" but the motors are 20" shafts. You run a smaller shaft with twins as the engines are offset from the centerline. I could buy a 5" leg extension kit but that's a little shy of a grand too. Still haven't decided... There also could be an ins premium increase for a 70mph boat :bo:

John, Thanks for the info on the hauling company.