Please Help

[Gierhedd75]

Hi everybody. This is my first thread-thing on here, so I hope I'm doing this right, and hopefully some of you more experienced salts can help me out a bit.
About a year ago, I ended up getting this old tri hull from a guy in Southern NJ who had it sitting around his farm for a few years. He told me he had got it and another boat from a friend or something, and decided to invest his restoration time into the other one. The problem is that the boat didn't have a capacity plate, or a hull number to found ANYWHERE. He had registered the boat as a homemade vessel, so NJ issued him a HIN. I in turn registered the boat in PA as homemmade, and they issued me a HIN, title, and registration. Great. However, it is my understanding that because the boat is under 20', I am required to have a capacity plate on this frankenboat. What do I do, considering I don't even have the slightest idea of what year or manufacture the boat is? Any knowledge would be greatly appreciated.
By the way, here are some pics if anyone is interested in what is sure to end up becoming an artificial reef when I finally take her out for that first flounder trip/Titanic moment this summer. lol

 

[92excel]

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still no pics.. create yourself an account at photobucket.com..
upload your photos then move your mouse over the image you want to include and come the

 

[oops!]

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hi....welcome to i boats......

we can help....but we do need more info.....

at the top of this forum is a sitcky containing uscg rules....

inside that link...it will tell you how to calculate maximum capasity....

but if we see pics......we can tell you what kind of boat......what year....what max hp rating as well as a max cap......


so help us help you......

cheers
oops

 

[Gierhedd75]

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Sorry, guys. I'm still trying to get used to this stuff. Hopefully this works:

http://s580.photobucket.com/albums/ss245/gierhedd75/?action=view&current=Seatrek.jpg

http://s580.photobucket.com/albums/ss245/gierhedd75/?action=view&current=P7290012.jpg

http://s580.photobucket.com/albums/ss245/gierhedd75/?action=view&current=P7290013.jpg

 

[Bob_VT]

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Hey you are real close Just add in

 

[zach103]

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or click on image code when in photo bucket and paste it in the reply

 

[Gierhedd75]

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Sorry. I am a compu-tarded.

 

[jpmurphy]

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The first pic is fuzzy, other ones are ok. Try to resize your pics to 640x480.
I did a google search for seatrek and only came up with a custom tin boat builder. I'm new to boating and have no clue what you have.

Someone here can tell you what it is just by looking at the pics. These guys are great and this has become my bible for restoring my rig.

 

[CATransplant]

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I couldn't find any info on the manufacturer of your boat, but I did run across a couple of other trihulls similar to yours with the SeaTrek name on them. They were 1971 and 1970 models, according to the sellers.

Basically, you have a generic sort of trihull walkthrough fishing boat. There were all kinds of companies making and selling these back then, and most are long out of business. It seems like there was a fiberglass boat company in every city over 20,000 back in the late 60s and early 70s, and every one of them made big old fiberglass trihull tubs.

They're great fishing platforms, but not too much fun in rough water, as I'm sure you'll discover, but they're stable and nice to fish from.

Yours, like all of them, is made of two fiberglass sections, the hull and the cap. Between the two is who knows what. Some had foam. Some had wood stringers and foam. Some had the deck stuck to the high points of the hull, with foam in between. Many of them got a bunch of water between the two halves and got up to weighing a lot more than they started.

All had a tendency to rotten transoms after 30 years, so you'll want to check that very carefully.

Other than that, it's pretty much like every other trihull walkthrough, a big old oblong barge-shaped fishing boat.