1954 Chris-Craft Cruiser12m

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This is a beautiful classic 1954 Chris-Craft in excellent condition, with new Yanmar Diesel Engines. In 2017, the owners spent over $300,00.00 and several months at Port Townsend for refit and upgrades including.

Twin Yanmar 100hp diesel engines and ZF transmissions.  

PYI Dripless Shaft Seals

A new 5KW Northern Lights Generator

Sepher Hurricane Hydronic heat system

Custom stainless steel radar arch

And much more!

This is from the owners

Sea Fever’s Story

"Our family has owned Sea Fever since 1976. She has spent her entire life at the Bremerton Yacht Club, under cover, after she was delivered to Dr Bright in 1954. She has taken us on innumerable trips into the San Juan’s, the Gulf Islands and Desolation Sound. She has been enjoyed by our 7-member family accompanied by friends over the years.

We set off to create the ideal cruising vessel and handed Sea Fever over to the highly regarded Haven Boat Works in Port Townsend. She then underwent a three-year stem to stern transformation at the hands of numerous artists and artisans. This happened just before the Pandemic.

Here's what we did to upgrade Sea Fever IV:

-New fully integrated electronics with Radar, GPS, AIS, Navigation and Depth finding with unique sideways fish finding and plotting capabilities ( $10,000)

_Completely rebuilt galley with Richlite counters, Isotherm Refrigerator 130,

($6130 including install). Wallace diesel 89D ($5300 with install), II has stovetop, oven, and heater.

-Custom cabinets that fit the era of the boat.

-We took out forward head and replaced it with a custom shower with bench.

-New AC/DC panel which integrated the Northern Lights M673LD3 diesel, 5 kW generator with soundproof enclosure

-Re powered from gasoline to diesel with two Yanmar 4JH4-HT diesels, with turbos. Approximately 135 horsepower, moves boat at between 8 and 10 knots

-Racor filter with very tidy diesel control valves. Engine room is under salon and has been reconstructed in a very straightforward manner which makes everything easy to find and maintain.

-The new AC/DC panel includes all new wiring in the boat to ABYC standards.

- While the Wallace heater is quite adequate at heating the salon, we chose to put a International Thermal Research (ITR) Hurricane Zephyr heater which includes instant hot water. ($7650 with install). This provides thermostats and heat registers in every room in the boat including the flying bridge. This means that we can swing on the hook on cold winter days and stay toasty warm.

- Along with the new engines we have new transmissions, new exhausts, new shaft logs, struts, cutlass bearings, shafts, and propellers. I believe that we did not replace the rudders. New engine controls were installed at the pilot station in the flying bridge.

- A new 30-gallon saddle tank for drinking water was installed to add to the 70-gallon water tank that is in the back deck lazarette. I can still hear my mom saying, “you kids turn that water off now”.

-The two 100-gallon fuel tanks were cleaned and tested, then changed to diesel tanks. 0ne 100-gallon tank per engine

- The transom of the boat was taken off and completely replaced with Sapele and Purple Heart where appropriate. -

-The hull of the boat was taken down to bare wood and re fastened where necessary. However, the hull was very sound and did not need much work. It was then repainted along with the boot stripe.

- We then decided to be extra cautious and chose to have the bottom of the boat completely re fastened.

- The decks were stripped to bare wood and new stain, caulking and Epiphane Varnish were laid down.

The canvas bow of the boat was starting to lift, so we had it replaced with fiberglass and had it repainted white

- The heavy anchor was replaced with a lightweight Fortress Danforth style anchor.

-The forward-facing windows in the Salon and Flying Bridge were replaced with tempered glass where they faced any heavy weather water stresses.

-The Flying Bridge received all new canvas and upholstery.

This highlights the big work but obviously to complete a list like this, a lot more work was done to support it."

 Boathouse is available. Call for details

In August 2020 she got a fresh coat of bottom paint and new props. Zincs were replaced August 2021 and engine fluids changed in September 2021.