24 ft SC

[Bmoney1209]

Ran across this lil gem while surfing the net. Thought you all may want to see it. Looks FAST!

http://spacecoast.craigslist.org/boa/1264869155.html

[77SceptreOB]

Interesting. But I've never heard of any variety of 23' SeaCraft running 70 mph. I think if you had 2 - 300hp engines you would have a hard time topping 70 mph due to the SeaCraft's deep vee hull.

Any body out there running 70+ mph in ANY SeaCraft model??

[Trayder]

That is a rather rare Seavette in what looks to be decent shape. As for 70? I have no idea but Finster on the site had one with a single 300 his performance reports are somewhere on this site.

[Finster]

72 mph with the factory 2 thirsty fives is what I was told by the original owner. 54 mph with the big-dog 300 black max that was on it when I bought it.

[eggsuckindog]

My 23 Sceptre with a 275 V8 would bury a 55 speedo around to the 0 peg ??? no GPS's at the time, wish we did, that bastad was fast

[McGillicuddy]

seems lost2a6 was hitting close to 65 with his trs drive and i think jcwlbi said he'd been at 70 in a 20, ...maybe they'll chime in... twin light merc 200s and the right set up and who knows...
price is certainly worth the experiment no? I'll bet he's the first guy to the fishin' hole...

[Ryan]

Having a deep v hull will not impair you from hitting those speeds in fact most of the offshore perfomance boats, cigarette, fountain etc are all deep v hulls. I wish could swing this seavette but timing is bad. Its such a pretty boat!

[jwclbi]

yes, mcgillicuddy we hit 69.6 or 69.8 a couple years ago on a gps on my 20. But water has to be perfect. I dont have gps on board anymore so i dont know what it runs now after a few years of hard running.

[Fr. Frank]

Back in February 1984, I rigged a SeaVette with new twin 235's prepped by 2nd Effort, including nose cones and low-water pick-ups, and we added K-planes. Both RH rotation motors back in those days.

We could get an indicated 71-72 mph on an AutoMeter marine speedometer. This was achieved running early in the a.m. while it was cold. We had projected 74-75 mph, but we were unable to achieve that as rigged. Speeds later in the day fell to 68-69, and further loading 4 people and full fuel late in the day dropped it to 66-67 mph. Fuel consumption was about 51-52 gph at WOT.

The other boat we were rigging with 2nd effort motors at the same time was a 25'5" Checkmate with identical engines. The balsa-cored Checkmate weighed nearly 1100 lbs less, but was only 4-5 mph faster, and in fact had to run slower offshore in 2'-3' seas. With a good throttleman, the SeaVette could run WFO (64-65 mph) even in 2'-3' seas.

[77SceptreOB]

Fact of the day:

There were only 52 23' SeaCraft "SeaVettes" ever built. They started in 1978 and ended in 1979. So it's a pretty rare boat.