62' Striker Sportfish for sale.. CAT Engines

Have you ridden on a Striker?

I haven't found them to be noisy, except once in a while on plane when a wave hits the hull just right. I've run a 58' and a 62' quite a bit back in the day. They're wet boats and they don't ride great. Perhaps for a 1990 boat they rode OK. They also have a tendency to kind of fall off and on plane and the cruise speed bounces all over the map. No adjustable trim tabs so no way to adjust for that. Then there's the stupid fuel tank design......3 tanks centerline with a manual valve. Everything draws off of the center tank, but then if you want to drain the aft tank as much as possible into the center you have to be at hull speed, drain as much as possible after 15 minutes or more, go down and shut the valve.....otherwise when you pick it up on plane the fuel all rushes back to the aft (cockpit tank) and you're stern heavy, then to drain as much of the bow tank as possible you have to do the opposite. If you leave the valves open, on plane the boat gets stern heavy and at hull speed the boat gets very bow heavy. Then you had the sea chests, and the a/c sea water pump drew off of the port seachest, it would clog heavily with barnacles and was a royal pain in the rear to clean. The sliding door they put was another nightmare, there was nowhere to hold onto at sea. So running across the mezzanine deck or up the 2 cockpit steps, there was nothing to hold onto except the door handle itself.

I've heard this boat is in Long Island, NY.

I looked at the 62 with the c18’s in Lauderdale last week. Nice boat but lots of TLC needed

Current owner doesn’t use and has sat at dock for 2 years now. Needs lots of
Cosmetics inside and out. Mechanically needs a lot of servicing.

Any ideas what to budget for cosmetics and mechanic servicing? $100k?

NO seller is going to allow a buyer to do this. Not sure what you could even see by looking in the inside of an integral aluminum tank that's a part of the hull that you cannot see on the exterior of the ends.

I’m going to split the discussion on Striker into its own thread. The classifieds have been closed for years.

Yes. I've seen people walk away from surveys mid survey and all kinds of wacky stuff. I can only imagine someone tearing apart the inspection plate for a waste tank, breaking bolts off, not putting a new gasket, breaking the sender, or any other scenario's and walking away leaving a mess for the owner to clean up. Just like I sure as hell wouldn't let a buyer drop the oil pan on the engines to inspect the motor. If you want to have the holding tank pumped out, pull the pumpout hose off and stick a bore scope in there as well as audio gauge it, that's fine. On a survey, it is understood that the surveyors can inspect anything they can access. But they can't dismantle parts or systems of the boat.

I once had a buyer have the DD dealer pull all of the injectors on a set of Covington 12v71 TI's to do a compression test. Well all was fine. BUT, then on the next trip afterwards the boat black smoked like crazy at anything above 1200 rpms. Thank God the buyer bought the boat. Because the local D.D. dealer didn't know (nor anyone else) that the engines took a special injector height for a generator setting, and set them up for the marine DD setting for the injectors and it took 5 different sea trials with dealer mechanics on board and all kinds of work before this was all figured out and the buyer owned the boat now. If the seller had to deal with this mess, when the yacht ran absolutely perfectly and crystal clean prior to this......it would've been an expensive nightmare.

Hi CaptJ
You know quite a bit about these. I have never been on one since I was a kid and that was ages ago. Always loved the design. And I think the 62 is perfect size and love beam. Are they truly a poor riding boat? Wet? Can Tabs be added? Am I better off going fiberglass?, older Hatteras?
Love some more input.
Also is survey and haul out to check out done before talking numbers? Especially with so much unknowns.

Most strikers had a fixed after plane added to the stern, after the build and usually a few years later, which sticks past the transom 10-12" I'd guess, after the fact, which did/does help them pick up speed and run a little less bow high but they still run bow high and speed up going down waves and slow down going up. You could add tabs. but then they'd stick out even further behind the transom which is not good for fishing. I guess you could cut out some of the after plane and put it on a hinge with rams to create trim adjustment. Another option might be the blade style trim tabs...….from my experience running them, they should have some sort of trim tab system...….They ride ok, nothing I'd write home about by any means, they are stable on the troll, they are wet. What's your price range? Personally, I'd squeeze into a newer 61' Viking SF or 60' Hatteras MY...…..early 2000s/late 90's if I could. Also every striker I've run had really weird electrical. The 58' I used to run was sitting in Key Largo for sale, it's a project boat and they wanted less than $100k...…...supposedly they rebuilt the engines (they had 8 sets of majors on the 12v92's by the time I was involved in the boat in the mid 2000's, Larry the first owner, owned it up until then and had to do majors about every 500 hours or 2 years......) and did the shafts etc. and then the boats just sat there. The boat would just hammer the engines, it would cruise at 20-21 knots at 1950 but in a 3' sea or so as it went up a wave it would lose plane almost and sit there at 16-17 knots for a few minutes as the motors struggled to get it back to 20-21 knots...…then it would cruise 20-21 knots for a couple minutes, then back to 16-17 knots......….perhaps running them 2000/2050 rpms would've allowed them to live longer, who knows. Now I see it listed at $460k still sitting there as a project boat.....LOLOLOL called a 65' LOA on boat trader "Sweet Revenge". Burger built that one. I knew the original owner who had it for a decade or more, he told me 7 truck loads of plywood went into the interior of the boat. That's part of the reason they're slow...….they went to great lengths to build a lighter boat than fiberglass (aluminum) then they gained all of it back and more on the interior. The marine architect that knows all about these hulls is a guy named Dewou (spelling?) that works out of Rolly Marine Center in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Perhaps he could answer your questions on trim tabs.

Usually you agree on a price, then haul out and survey the bottom and sea trial etc.

So trying to get more info on el guapo
Anyone can share more info about it. I tried contacting previous owner on PM on hulltruth but nothing yet. Thanks