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Boat Review Repowering Pros Life Rafts LED Lights Nonskid Paints TM VOLUME 16 ï NUMBER 1 JANUARY 2003 Boat Review ... Page 3 3 Boat Review One of the best-riding monohulls we’ve ever driven, the SeaCraft 23 Classic deserves consideration in the high-end center console market. 9 Repowering Pros If you’re thinking of repowering with diesel, call one of these guys. 11 Life Rafts Winslow still leads, but the gap narrows. Viking’s RescYou Pro earns a Best Buy. Life Rafts Page 11 18 LED Lights Hella and Perko have introduced LED navigation lights. We also check out other gadgets making use of LEDs. 24 Nonskid Paints & Pads Treadmaster decks Vetus in a head-to-head Nonskid Test of nonskid mats, while West Marine’s paint Page 24 earns Best Buy honors. 28 Clear Plastic Cleaners Four products shine: Armada 210 and Plexus sprays, Dolphinite liquid paste and Mer- Maids liquid (a Best Buy). Also in this Issue 2 Editorial Nighttime boating tips. Diesel 21 Product Monitor Saltwater soap, ACR space blanket, Tool Leash. Repowering Pros 31 Letters Air Head follow-up, used boats, kudos to Bombardier, balsa. Page 9 32 Advisor INOX lubricant, Radio Shack alarm, 7.4L engines, Glacier Bay/Grady fuel tanks. January 2003 • Powerboat Reports 1 Boat Review SeaCraft The Classic 23 boasts one of the best rides of any small monohull we’ve driven, but it comes at a very high price—$58,000. For that, consumers de- serve a longer warranty and a better fuel tank installation. ometimes you gotta travel a little to get to the fish, but 150 S nautical miles … and in a 23- foot open boat? That’s what Ian and Shep Murray did (twice) this past sum- mer to reach their favorite fishing spots off of Martha’s Vineyard, MA. The brothers, who hail from Greenwich, CT, crossed three different Sounds (Long Island, Block Island and Rhode Island) in their 2002 SeaCraft 23 Clas- sic, a center console powered with a 225-hp Honda four-stroke. “We left at 7 in the morning and we had our lines in the water by 1:30,” said Ian. “We stopped a few times. It really wasn’t that bad. It’s a great-riding boat.” Above: SeaCraft will pre-rig any engine brand but packages with Mercury and And it always has been. Honda. The boat hardly flinched during our sea trial, its legendary hull design Since Bill Potter cranked out the first living up to all the hype. SeaCraft 23 in 1970, owners have been raving about its soft ride. In fact, older SeaCrafts—in all sizes—are all the SeaCraft, Bill Potter. He and the proud and 24 degrees at the centerline,” he rage these days, as evidenced by a SeaCraft owners and L.I.’s Hampton said. flourishing website (www.classicse Watercraft were quite helpful. We wish Potter gave us more specific input acraft.com) where owners trade we could say the same about the cur- into the design of the bottom, which renovation tips and tales of slicing rent manufacturer of the SeaCraft 23, as far as he knows has changed little and dicing seas no other 23-footer Tracker Marine, which also owns since he ran the company. The would dare take on. (See the accom- Mako. It took us three weeks before SeaCraft website supports his belief: panying article). we could pin down sales and mar- “The 23' Classic is currently built uti- We got a chance to test a SeaCraft keting president Frank Longino for an lizing the same time-honored hull 23. Like the Murrays’ boat, it was interview. And even then he would design as when first introduced in the rigged with a single Honda 225. Here’s only give us “10 minutes.” We hope early 1970s.” our report. that this I’m-too-busy (he was prepar- The key is the bottom’s variable ing for a boat show) attitude doesn’t deadrise, which is distributed through Design trickle down from corporate to the longitudinal steps, said Potter, who Research for this article included our dealers and on to the buying public. took the patented design of SeaCraft usual sea trial and dockside inspec- We actually ended up keeping Mr. founder Carl Moesly’s 21-footer, ex- tion. In addition, we interviewed the Longino on the phone for about 30 tended it 2 feet and modified the Murray brothers, two other SeaCraft minutes. The mission of the 23, ac- bottom slightly to produce the 23 in owners (one of them launched the cording to Longino, is to deliver a 1970. “Instead of strakes, you have aforementioned website) and a smooth head-sea ride at planing panels that are parallel to the keel SeaCraft dealership on Long Island, speeds and yet troll and drift with line,” said Potter, who is still active NY. For some historical perspective, minimal roll. “That’s the reason for as a marine accessories designer for we spoke to the former owner of the 18-degree deadrise at the exterior Seamark Marine in Florida January 2003 • Powerboat Reports 3 (www.hermco.net). “These panels than its LOA. As ad- Fast Facts flatten out as you move outboard.” vertised, the 23’s Once on plane, water flows strong point was its Length 23' 3" smoothly outboard, the steps reduc- head-sea ride. The Beam 8' 2" ing deflection, or “slapping,” upon re- boat thought nothing Draft 16" entry. On many other production of a 2-foot chop at a Deadrise @ transom (avg. deg.) 20.5 monohulls, the water must fight past cruising rpm of 3500. Dry weight (lbs.) 3,070 the strakes to escape outboard, which Three-footers Transom c/l height 30" can lead to a rougher ride. awaited in the ocean, Fuel capacity (gals.) 135 Above the waterline, simple lines and the SeaCraft was Maximum horsepower 300 contribute to an attractive profile. With up to the task. She a straight sheer and freeboard propor- wasn’t as smooth- Standard Equipment tioned to satisfy both form and func- riding in quartering tion, we think the boat looks darn good. seas, but still did an Gunwale mount rod holders (4) We wondered whether its perfor- adequate job. Under gunnel rod storage mance would measure up to its looks We had no prob- Transom baitwell as we nudged the throttle into forward lems with the hy- In-deck baitwell at the 2002 Miami Boat Show. draulic steering, find- Baitwell pump & circ. system ing it quite responsive Fishboxes (2) Sea Trial with a tight four turns Raised casting deck The Miami Boat Show remains the from lock to lock. Console tackle storage ideal forum for us to test boats. Be- Klockars pushed the Cooler space under standard leaning post sides the quick access to the ocean, throttles down to Single bow T-top the fact that hundreds of powerboats achieve a top speed of Standard rocket launcher w/ handrail pack the channels—and churn up 38 knots and ran the washing-machine-like water—adds to boat in all directions in Optional Equipment the fun. search of moments of The two PBR editors who tested this uncontrollability. He Vertical rod storage boat brought different driving styles found none. Double bow t-top (w/ outriggers) to the helm. Technical advisor Erik Our sea trial was Rupp Top Gun outriggers Klockars drives hard, in white-knuckle relatively dry. Winds Fold-down mini tower fashion that pushes the boat—and its were moderate, Electronics box occupants—to the limit. Let’s put it though. Remember, Fluorescent T-top light this way, you quickly discover this is a small boat— Spreader lights whether the vessel has an ample num- and completely open, Backrest for standard rocket launcher ber of handrails when Klockars takes so it’s no surprise Fixed-back rocket launcher the helm. His bat-out-of hell technique that the Murrays re- Console cover helps us uncover any bad habits or port that they got wet Spray hood w/ boot characteristics. on their passages to Spray hood privacy curtain In contrast, editor Chris Landry and from the Vine- Bimini top w/ boot concentrates on how the boat oper- yard. In fact, Ian Cockpit coaming bolsters ates at cruising speeds, gauging how Murray said that “the Bow coaming bolsters fast he can run comfortably, the re- boat is wetter than I Casting deck/bow cushions sponsiveness of the steering and con- expected.” He might trols, and visibility at the helm. (Sta- have to make the bility while adrift and at slower speeds same addition as David Pugsley, who test boat consumed about 8 gallons sits high on his priority list, too.) frequently runs a refurbished (1979) per hour while attaining a speed of The T-top supports on many cen- 23 through Sir Francis Drake Chan- roughly 21 knots. And of course this ter consoles often block sightlines, a nel in the British Virgin Islands. “I V6 four-stroke murmurs quietly at troll- safety hazard as well as an annoy- have spray rails starting about a foot ing speeds—a mere 71 decibels push- ance. Not so on the SeaCraft 23. Two up from the waterline in the bow and ing along at 1500 rpm. The four-stroke support bars are pushed outboard and tapering down to waterline level about isn’t going to pop her out of the hole only slightly impede the helmsman’s amidships,” said Pugsley, marina op- as quickly as a two-stroke, but we line of sight. erations director of Bitter End Yacht wouldn’t call it sluggish, either. While battling our way through the Club in Virgin Gorda.
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