25' Seafari vs.......what ?

[bgreene]

25' Seafari - with outboard mounted directly to transom performance compares to what boats ? Contender, Reg, Abi , CarolClassic ?

If I had one for a few hours to run off our NJ ocean, I'd know for sure.

Roll on the drift, beam sea, head sea, following sea, trolling.

[kmoose]

Compare it to light deep v hulls in the 30' range would be my guess. I like the idea of a 350 Yamaha right on the transom. Would be a hell of a boat. Hard to find though...

[Bigshrimpin]

bgreene - There's the one in CT with the ETEC, but I don't even think that boat has tabs (which is a requirement on the 25 seafari). I think that's about as close as you will get. There were only 80 25 seafari's built and they were all i/o's. 17 or so are accounted on this site.


http://www.classicseacraft.com/broch...production.pdf

Strick x 2 (both sold in CA)
cdavis
blueheron
bilgerat
bigshrimpin
captrod28 (crushed one LI dump)
fishstretcher
flyingfrizzle
Bigfluke/Navatek owns 4 in Hawaii
Twin engine Seafari in a field (nassau)
25 with ETEC in CT
GameOnSalmon's 25
Seafari 25 (canada)
Mo Fun (volvo diesel /290 duo) hawaii

[cdavisdb]

Big, could you PM me a contact for the one in Connecticut. I'd love to compare notes.

bgreene, I'll take a stab at it. Mine is an i/o and runs into 4-5 ft wind waves in the Gulf Stream considerably better than Contender type open fish with twin outboards. Never had a chance to compare the other brands, but the Albi 23 is a clone of the Formula 233. I've spent a lot of time in those. Been a long while, so memory isn't reliable, but I say the 25 rides some better into a head sea and much better in a steep following sea.

Many deep Vs snap roll, a thoroughly nasty action. the Formula can be terrible, throw you right out of the boat in the wrong conditions. Not sure about the others. The 25 does not snap roll with an 1/0. An outboard would change the vertical CG for the worse. If you do enough of that, the 25 can develop a bad snap roll. I'm not sure where the line is.

[Bigshrimpin]

Pm sent.

[Bigshrimpin]

Seafari's only came in 25 and 20 flav'as It's pretty easy to tell them apart

[cdavisdb]

Easiest, fastest is the presence of windows above the sheer line, definitive. The two hulls look quite similar from a distance, but the 25 is a much bigger boat and will have much bigger power. Sometimes I have to look twice at a pic.

[bgreene]

Sceptre and Sefari look quite different to me, but then again without having one of these I've looked at many !

[McGillicuddy]

Here are a Seafari 20, a Seafari 25 and an original SeaCraft 21 (Moesly) hanging out at at a spit a little north of Anclote, IIRC. I think bilgerat has a nice photo of his 20 and 25 Seafaris side by side which really shows the size difference.

[bilgerat]

my old 20 and 25 Seafari's side by side for size comparison