A SeaCraft owner again!

[seafari25]

Wow, that looks like it's in really good shape.

Congrats, Father Frank!

[Fr. Frank]

3096 round-trip miles later, She's home!

Chris Downey, aka Water Rat, met my wife and I for breakfast Saturday prior to helping me load this beauty on to my trailer. But Chris showed up with 4 additional persons! According to Chris, they wanted to meet someone who had this "Seacraft disease" so badly he would drive 1500 miles just to pick up an old boat!
I gently explained to them it wasn't an old boat, it was a Seacraft.
After breakfast together, and then looking over the object of my affliction, the extra folk went on their way, (shaking their heads, I'm sure). Christ labored with me for over an hour to get the boat loaded, demonstrating his true character! The previous owners, Jim Petersen and his wife Elaine, were extremely gracious. Jim advised me that the boat has original power in it, and needs some small TLC and maintenance, like manifold and elbow, bellows, etcetera. But it comes with a large custom-made Sunbrella navy top, with side eisenglass, and aft curtain.
So after two days at 13.6 mpg, including driving some of the worst roads in North America, here is "Sunday's Child", in front of the church.

PS: Did you know that the toll to cross the George Washington bridge into New York while pulling an empty trailer is $27?
I had to pay to cross a bridge and then drive on roadways so bad that they should be paying me hazardous conditions pay to drive on them! I actually bent my left spindle on the trailer driving this thing across the roads of New York and Pennsylvania. No other state I drove had roads as bad as these. I completely wore out the "new" left tire on the trailer, but fortunately had no flat.

[RANT] $27 is more than the tolls I pay to drive the entire 850 miles to the Florida Keys!

This trip was lovely, and absolutely confirmed how beautiful America is everywhere, and also confirmed how great it is to live in Florida, where roads don't end up with frost heave.

More to come, but I will start a new thread in Repairs/Mods as I go through this.

[flyingfrizzle]

Congrats on a mission completed! I cant imagine how happy your are to be back home. The G. Washington bridge was $32 for north bound with a dual axel empty so we took another bridge west of there to save the toll. I think the other bridge was only $8 to $10ish. Good thing is the G Washington is free heading south bound. I would really suck to pay that 27 bucks twice! I'm sure the New Jersey turn pike emptied you wallet as well if you took it too. I forget what road parallels it that we took to save a few bucks but man the tolls up north are ridiculous. Any way glad to see you made it home safely. Nothing like home sweet home!

Originally Posted by Fr. Frank

3096 round-trip miles later, She's home!

Chris Downey, aka Water Rat, met my wife and I for breakfast Saturday prior to helping me load this beauty on to my trailer. But Chris showed up with 4 additional persons! According to Chris, they wanted to meet someone who had this "Seacraft disease" so badly he would drive 1500 miles just to pick up an old boat!
I gently explained to them it wasn't an old boat, it was a Seacraft.
After breakfast together, and then looking over the object of my affliction, the extra folk went on their way, (shaking their heads, I'm sure). Christ labored with me for over an hour to get the boat loaded, demonstrating his true character! The previous owners, Jim Petersen and his wife Elaine, were extremely gracious. Jim advised me that the boat has original power in it, and needs some small TLC and maintenance, like manifold and elbow, bellows, etcetera. But it comes with a large custom-made Sunbrella navy top, with side eisenglass, and aft curtain.
So after two days at 13.6 mpg, including driving some of the worst roads in North America, here is "Sunday's Child", in front of the church.

PS: Did you know that the toll to cross the George Washington bridge into New York while pulling an empty trailer is $27?
I had to pay to cross a bridge and then drive on roadways so bad that they should be paying me hazardous conditions pay to drive on them!
$27 is more than the tolls I pay to drive the entire 850 miles to the Florida Keys!

This trip was lovely, and absolutely confirmed how beautiful America is everywhere, and also confirmed how great it is to live in Florida, where roads don't end up with frost heave.

More to come, but I will start a new thread in Repairs/Mods as I go through this.

[Fr. Frank]

We actually went back via I-95 to CT-9 to CT-66 to I-691 to I-84 to I-81 to avoid tolls. Overall, my GPS said it added about 35 miles to the trip, or about $12 in fuel costs.
I-84 across NY and Penn was brutal!

[castalot]

Yes the bridge toll and roads are terrible when I brought mine back from jersey I was able to see daylight under all 4 tires on a bump with the boat on the trailer!!!
Empty trailer down and back spent $60 on just tolls
Glad you made it without any issues

[brushhippie]

Congrats! Feller I just bought mine from went 1300....I didnt go quite that far!

[Water Rat]

Fr. Frank, the pleasure was all ours; it was great to have the opportunity to meet both your wife and yourself and I'm very glad to see you are all home safely. Everyone on this site knows what a great resource you are; they should also know are are a very nice guy to boot, but your wife is much nicer.

And thanks for taking some of the heat off me; I'm not sure if my friends and family took some comfort that others have the disease worse than me or if they were horrified to find that we are out there in greater numbers than they originally thought.

[jonbrush]

Hey guys,

Sounds like you had enough help, Fr. Frank. But I was not paying attention or I would have come down to watch... I live about 10 miles from Weymouth!

Glad you made it OK

Jon Brush<-----used to the tolls and traffic after 35 yrs in NE.
Boston MA and Shelter Island NY
New owner of 76 Sceptre

[DonV]

After driving up "there" a few years ago, I now understand why people lease cars!!! I would not ever, ever want to regularly drive my owned vehicle on those roads disguised as pot holes!!