No SeaCrafts in miami!! - Page 3

hermco · #21 02-14-2010, 01:01 PM

Argh! Brings back bad memories. I still remember glassing the stringers in hull number 1 for the Miami summer boat show at 1:AM. That was a lotta years ago.

DonV · #22 02-14-2010, 10:57 PM

Quote:

Looks like in 30 years from now all SeaCrafts will be Classics.

Yeah, kinda sad about the "new SeaCrafts", but the only ones that will REALLY matter are the Classics anyway.!! However in 30 years I'll be long gone and my ashes spread in the Keys. What's really cool is I can leave my 23' SF to my Grandson and it will last through him.

elpez · #23 02-15-2010, 11:01 AM

Not surprised, too many bad stories about shoddy workmanship and non-existent customer service. Now it seems like Contenders were not made much better. You shell out big bucks and then are told that multiple stress cracks are "to be expected"???

Snookerd · #24 02-15-2010, 02:30 PM

Quote:

Argh! Brings back bad memories. I still remember glassing the stringers in hull number 1 for the Miami summer boat show at 1:AM. That was a lotta years ago.

Don-Now that's irony! You built the 1st one and co-owned the company, I believe?! Many CSC members are not aware of your history.

strick · #25 02-15-2010, 05:58 PM

History has always been a passion of mine...I'd forgot that you were originally involved with Contender... a lesson on how they got started would be interesting...weather they did their own tooling or if they started with a proven hull and modified it?

strick

76Red18 · #26 02-15-2010, 08:57 PM

Didn't borrow anything from Ben Kramer did ya? Contenders and SeaCrafts

are the only other hulls that run as well as his!!

video

hermco · #27 02-15-2010, 09:59 PM

Original Contender 25 was flopped from an Allmand 25 Neber found in Osprey FL. We changed the bottom, shear line and made a new open fish cap mold. We got a console from Big Don McGee of Sea Vee. The first I think 12 boats were fabricated decks, glass on plywood before the liner was molded.

workinpr0gress · #28 02-15-2010, 10:54 PM

That is one heck of a good history lesson, thanks for sharing.

hermco · #29 02-15-2010, 11:21 PM

Here is some history for you, where Contender was born many years ago .... thats the 25' mold in the background and console mold holding me up to the left.

workinpr0gress · #30 02-15-2010, 11:53 PM

Quote:

Here is some history for you, where Contender was born many years ago .... thats the 25' mold in the background and console mold holding me up to the left.

In your opinion what is the best Contender hull or maybe most sought after.... I have a buddy who really likes the old Intrepids, older Conchs as opposed to the newer stuff, much like the Potters.