Not sure if the scratched anchor is included. At least she has Detroits. Actually not the worst looking boat I've seen.
https://www.unitedyacht.com/used-yac...eafood-2792727
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09-21-2022 10:55 PM #1Senior Member
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Not a Hatt, but who doesn't like Seafood
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09-22-2022 08:43 AM #3Senior Member
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Re: Not a Hatt, but who doesn't like Seafood
This boat may be constructed of aluminum. Other Strikers that I have seen are aluminum. Nothing like having to re-plate a hull .
JMooney
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“Jerrie”
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Re: Not a Hatt, but who doesn't like Seafood
If I was close to it, I'd go see it just to step up to the helm and say "Move over Swanson. I'm driving!"
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09-22-2022 09:43 AM #6
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Re: Not a Hatt, but who doesn't like Seafood
Love a nice Striker. Yes, they're all aluminum. What a gorgeous, beamy beast. I tried to find a good one back in the days when a good friend was a master welder and you could do your own work at local marinas. Never happened because they were all too expensive.
Supposedly, you add a bunch of zinc to the bottom paint and then paint the accessible hull areas with bilgecoat with a pile of zinc dust added. But still, dealing with all that metal must be a constant battle. Bonding and keeping different metals from touching must be even more important than on ours.At the mouth of the Caloosahatchee
1984 52C
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Re: Not a Hatt, but who doesn't like Seafood
I think Mr Smith used to run or own one years ago. I remember him stating the he nearly froze solid in the winter.
Walt Hoover
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Re: Not a Hatt, but who doesn't like Seafood
It's across the bay from me, so I might go look at it.
I had a Striker. (a 44' model) They are tough boats, but the worry about electrolysis is constant. They are also noisy as hell, and COLD in the winter as the aluminum structure just drains heat out of the boat.
I'm not certain about this, but I had the impression that on aluminum boats you had to use magnesium anodes, not zincs, because zinc is higher on the galvanic scale than aluminum, and magnesium is lower.
My first two boats were wood, my third aluminum, and now I've had a fiberglass Hatteras for over thirty years. If I had bought this one first, I would have never owned the others.
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Re: Not a Hatt, but who doesn't like Seafood
Used to be you couldn’t charter a striker because they were built in Holland and couldn’t be documented for coastwise trade.
"DON'T BELIEVE ANYTHING YOU READ OR HEAR AND ONLY HALF OF WHAT YOU SEE" - BEN FRANKLIN
Endless Summer
1967 50c 12/71n DDA 525hp
ex Miss Betsy
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Howard P. Miller 1967-1974
Richard F Hull 1974-1976
Robert J. & R.Scott Smith 1976-present