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01-07-2013, 08:31 PM
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79' Overnighter
Here's a few pics of my recently purchased 20' Overnighter. I have a ton of questions, but would like to say hi and thank everyone for sharing pictures and ideas. It's a cool site.
Anyhow, after reading a lot here I decided to try my hand at restoring a Seacraft to fill time in retirement, and to have one of these legendary boats of my own. I'm trying to figure the best way to rebuild the transom, add a bracket, reconfigure the scuppers so I don't have to worry about it in wet slip, and generally bring her back to life. Retirement begins end of March so this will be my new job. 
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01-07-2013, 08:51 PM
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Welcome aboard!!
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1977 SeaCraft 23' Sceptre W/ Alum Tower & Yamaha 225 www.LouveredProductsUnlimited.com
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01-07-2013, 09:20 PM
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John,
That's a very interesting layout and I look forward to seeing more of it. I've never seen any brochures of it, but it looks like Potter sort of combined the Seafari inner liner with a modified Sceptre top cap, to sort of captured the best features of both in the process! The bulkhead in the Seafari is about 10' from the transom, and I think it's about 10'6" in the Sceptre. I wonder where it is in the Overnighter? The bunks should be 6'6" long if he used the Seafari inner liner, but 6" shorter with the Sceptre liner. A good friend of mine went down to the Miami Boat Show in 1976 with the intent of buying a 20' Sceptre, but he said they had a Sceptre and Seafari lined up side by side with the transoms up against an elevated walkway, and he noticed that the cockpits were almost the same size. He ended up buying a Seafari because of the extra room and dry storage in the cabin. Maybe the Overnighter was an attempt to combine the larger cockpit and walk-thru windshield of the Sceptre with the dry storage of the Seafari? Denny
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'72 SeaFari/150E-Tec/Hermco Bracket, owned since 1975. http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z...Part2019-1.jpg
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01-07-2013, 09:49 PM
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Denny,
I pulled out the cushions and they measured about 76", so it sounds like the Seafarer layout. I can measure next time I'm out there. The forward hatches and the walkthru windshield have me scratching my head. If you slide the hatches all the way forward you still have to get up onto the bow to deploy, tie off and retrieve the anchor. I've never seen a Seafarer, so I don't know if that feature is the same. I'll take some more pics of the cabin, it may be the same without the height of the Seafarer ceiling, and window. It does have some small compartments under the cushions. I thought this 79 was a sceptre, but if you look at the 79 price list it has an 20 Overnighter but not a 20 sceptre. I'm thinking 78 was the last year for the 20 sceptre. But I'm still learning!
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01-07-2013, 10:01 PM
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welcome
Welcome to the SeaCraft family,,,,from another South Jersey SeaCraft fan.....please keep us informed.....where is workinprogress... I think he knows this boat....
Joe R. 20ft Classic SeaCraft Susie II
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01-07-2013, 11:31 PM
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Cheers, GFS
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01-08-2013, 01:58 AM
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Good to see another SC being brought back to life, especially one I've only seen a couple of. I know of the boat but didn't dig through it. The guy who had it, had it for a long time right out front. He's into the little go fast boats, I think he mess' with speed skiffs and tunnels etc. I always figured it was an 80's boat like the WA but one time when it was bugging me and I looked at the hin before to see if it was a Potter and was surprised.
Congrats on your purchase, have it ready for the Summer SeaCraft Gathering Atlantic City 2013, lol.
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