Engine/weight capacity

[Mikered3500]

Hello, I have aquired a 1975 sea sea 20 foot center console amberjack (I believe it is) .the capacity plate is too faded to read, trying to find an outboard to put on it but I don't know the capacity. Apparently sea ray can't produce any info on this boat...thanks .

 

[MTboatguy]

Can you post up a picture of it, all the Amberjacks from 1975 I am seeing are inboard models?

Also, did you get a title for it, if so have you looked up the serial number to see exactly what you have. There are quite a few HIN decoders on the net these days. If no title, the HIN should be on the right side of the transom

 

[Scott Danforth]

75 wouldnt have a HIN, it would have a serial number

it would have also came as an I/O only

 

[MTboatguy]

75 wouldnt have a HIN, it would have a serial number

it would have also came as an I/O only

Scott everything I have says they made the HIN plate mandatory in 1972?

http://boatsafe.com/nauticalknowhow/hin.htm

All boats manufactured or imported on or after November 1, 1972 must bear a HIN. The HIN is a 12 character serial number that uniquely identifies your boat. The HIN has an important safety purpose. It enables manufacturers to clearly identify for boat owners the boats that are involved in a defect notification and recall campaign. A HIN is not the same as a State registration number, which may be required to be displayed on the bow of your boat. The HIN is a Federal requirement; your boat’s registration number is a State requirement similar to the license plate on your car. The HIN, however, is required to be shown on the State certificate of registration.

If I am not mistaken 1975 came after 1972

 

[Mikered3500]

It has a hin .the title says it is a '75 20 foot center console. It starts with scr or something. I'll be home to get the title and confirm it soon.

 

[Mikered3500]

This 175 motor was trashed so I'm buying another motor for it ...

 

[Mikered3500]

Got the hint, scrm80111274....comes up as a 1974 stealth craft when I googled it...any ideas why?? It's definitely a sea ray...it looks just like the amberjack but it's ob powered.

 

[MTboatguy]

Hmmmmm, we have a mystery. If that is the HIN on the hull, then it is a Stealth Craft boat, that was placed by the manufacture...Or, someone somewhere along the way, has changed the HIN plate.

 

[Mikered3500]

It has the plastic sea ray emblems on it on the sides, has the same teak wood as the srv does. Idk . probably changed the hull number from another boat from a title issue maybe.

 

[briangcc]

Not trying to add insult to injury here but what's with the sheet metal on the transom? Transom wood underneath all that is solid?

Reason I ask is that most band-aid solutions to a compromised transom are sheetmetal over top which will eventually fail. If you're not sure it may be an opportune time to check this out before sinking a bunch of money into an outboard.

 

[MTboatguy]

Swapping numbers is not uncommon on many of the older boats. My current Starcraft is kosher with its numbers and data plates from Starcraft, all of the correct numbers on the title, but the title says "Sea Ray"

I have no idea how this one got messed up but I suspect that someone had lost the title to the Starcraft and they had the title to the sea ray that no longer existed got all of the correct numbers for the Starcraft put on the title for the old sea ray boat title

 

[tacx]

Swapping numbers is not uncommon on many of the older boats. My current Starcraft is kosher with its numbers and data plates from Starcraft, all of the correct numbers on the title, but the title says "Sea Ray"

I have no idea how this one got messed up but I suspect that someone had lost the title to the Starcraft and they had the title to the sea ray that no longer existed got all of the correct numbers for the Starcraft put on the title for the old sea ray boat title

But that would not explain the SeaRay emblem on the side??

 

[MTboatguy]

But that would not explain the SeaRay emblem on the side??

Except for the fact you can buy those emblems and stick them on yourself, his boat is not titled as a Sea Ray, so it is what the state says it is.

I have actually seen quite a few boats over the years that were titled wrong based on what the boat was and instead of worrying about it people have purchased and changed the brand on them with new stickers and emblems..

 

[JimS123]

Its a SeaRay for sure. Just look at the pics. If the HIN that is actually on the boat says otherwise, its not a typo mistake, it was switched on purpose. If the paperwork is wrong, but the boat transom says SeaRay, then something got switched in the DMV office. In either case, it smells like stolen somewhere.

 

[MTboatguy]

Its a SeaRay for sure. Just look at the pics. If the HIN that is actually on the boat says otherwise, its not a typo mistake, it was switched on purpose. If the paperwork is wrong, but the boat transom says SeaRay, then something got switched in the DMV office. In either case, it smells like stolen somewhere.

I agree Jim,

Something on that boat is not Kosher.

I do have to admit, I don't see any emblems on either boat in those couple of pictures...

The first boat in the pictures has a 225 on it, so I don't think it is the boat in question, the second picture I believe shows a 175, but there are no emblems on it either?

 

[Mikered3500]

The metal is 1/4" stainless. The guy before me added it when the transom was redone I guess for more sturdiness .I have no idea why it's on there. It's the same boat, when I bought it it had a 175, I put a 225 on it but it had bad compression and I just never did anything with it. Why would it be 2 different boats?

 

[MTboatguy]

The metal is 1/4" stainless. The guy before me added it when the transom was redone I guess for more sturdiness .I have no idea why it's on there. It's the same boat, when I bought it it had a 175, I put a 225 on it but it had bad compression and I just never did anything with it. Why would it be 2 different boats?

I wasn't saying it was two different boats, I said in the two pictures neither picture has emblems in them. I would get a hold of your dept of Lic and see what they suggest you do.

 

[AlabamaNewbie]

Check for a secondary HIN, possibly under the console. See if it matches what is on the transom plate.

 

[AlabamaNewbie]

Actually - I know the problem

You are misreading the C. It is an E.

Your HIN is actually serm80111274

Certified December, 1974.

 

[MTboatguy]

Actually - I know the problem

You are misreading the C. It is an E.

Your HIN is actually serm80111274

Certified December, 1974.

That very well could be the problem, my wife rea the serial number wrong on a Glastron I bought a few months ago and it drove me crazy, I finally went and looked at it again and what she thought was a Z was actually a 2 which cleared everything up right away.