Sea Trial: Sea Harvester

We take the sea harvester out for a spin! This has been a really neat project. The customer came to us with a beautifully setup Radon fishing machine that just wasn't served well by the outdrive. To make sure this boat could work as a solid platform we lengthened the hull and swapped in a V-Drive. With a Much Bigger prop she will easily be much more capable of handling the swing loads. The QSB 425HP will be able to do what it was meant to do, grab some serious water and move this boat loaded or not!

[@mikeherriges7476]

Awesome guys, total pro work, owner has to be stoked. 17knts @ 50% engine load burning 10gph is a comm fisherman's dream.

[@deeremeyer1749]

With 450 hp in that toy boat? ROFLMAO.

[@alexdetrana8740]

Tony is known as God around town when it comes to this stuff. I'll be having him repower my Radon 27 when the time comes.

[@rperez2404]

Saludos!!! Desde Puerto Rico 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷💪🔥

[@deeremeyer1749]

Damn near millpond smooth and that POS pitches and rolls and wallows like it's in 5 footers, lol.

[@besearchingforwisdom6267]

Outstanding video and work

[@eyonjohnson1914]

Another one for the books

[@davidhall1779]

great work team Seaboard.

[@SeaboardMarineIncVideos]

Much appreciated!

[@deeremeyer1749]

That kind of fuel consumption is associated with "450 hp" at 2000 rpm producing 20 TONS of ACTUAL "tractive force" in a farm tractor that weighs 20 tons alone.

[@seancripps3530]

Nice project for Sbmar and nice documentation. What size prop and gear ratio was used? 2:1?

[@paulvlug812]

Great results, any idea what the boat weight is and what it will be fully loaded, I have a charter boat at 7 tonnes with a 370hp 5.9 iveco and Konrad 680. My guess on test day this boat weight is about 5 tonnes and loaded maybe 8 tonnes.

[@danpease8395]

Nice work, but I don't understand why, if you are going to have a permanent swim platform, that you didn't extend the lower half of the transom and give yourself another 1.5 of hull.

[@deeremeyer1749]

"We've repowered that boat twice". And it still doesn't run like "new". Obviously.

[@sonicmaster6597]

26 kts is good for f/v. At my place in west borneo many f/v run only 7-9 kts at full throtle

[@Hitman-ds1ei]

Just made a 'real' boat out of it !!

[@TIJUANA818]

what reduction ratio and prop pitch/diameter?

[@neogeo8267]

Is this boat entirely hydraulic drive?

[@erlenjorgeconceicaodejesus1641]

hello good morning seaboard marine team i call me jesus erlen i'm a naval carpenter i'm your fan and i'm brazilian i would like to know how many hp this engine has

[@Hitman-ds1ei]

425

[@erlenjorgeconceicaodejesus1641]

@@Hitman-ds1ei ok thank

[@deeremeyer1749]

Why in God's name would you ever want to "hit the governor" with a variable-speed diesel?

[@jeffl7581]

I want one, that boat will be ideal in the Cook straights between north and south islands of New Zealand when the seas change from flat to 20 metres in 4 minutes( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_Strait ) but the fishing is massive

[@richielittlewood867]

Never show power plants ?