Attn: 18' SeaCraft Owners

[76Red18]

While googleing SeaCraft looking for the elusive 15, I found this comment on the Tropical Boating forum

"In most conditions, the old 18' Sea Craft center console was actually a better riding boat than the 20' Master Angler. I don't know why, but from watching both boats pound along in the Gulf Stream, the 20 footer was breaking through the waves approximately amidships, while the 18 entered the water a little further forward. The difference was dramatic, but it could be cancelled out by improper loading of the boat. On the old 23' Sea Craft with outboards, it was sometimes hard to get enough weight forward to get a good ride, and trim tabs were needed to hold the bow down. The same hull with a single Volvo sterndrive with a jackshaft to the engine mounted underneath the console would tend to ride more level because all the weight of the engine located so far forward would force the boat to enter the water with the deeper V section first, slicing instead of pounding."

Could it be true?

[small45]

i grew up fishing out of a '69 20' cc with a 200 long shaft evinrude attached to a homebuilt alluminum transom gusset/extension. somehow i ended up with two 18' cc boats while looking for a twenty. i have noticed that the 18' i have does seem to ride a little "heavy" in the bow, whereas i recall having quite a few concrete blocks in the front of dad's twenty just so it would plane out.


btw...please over look my poor terminology on some items as i have only recently come back to out board powered cc's after ten years of inboard skiboats and rock crawlers(we have two seasons where i live)