2004 Plan of action - Page 3 - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

TheSpecialist · 12-12-2003, 07:14 PM

Mike I am serious, but will not be sure financially till the spring. I was looking for CC with a head, but that's not etched in concrete..

Clammer · 12-12-2003, 09:13 PM

Yea < Bill I passed on the one with the head,, not because of the small extra cost ,,,but the console setup was different & also I wouldn,t have been able to set mine up like I did=

chris L · 12-12-2003, 09:16 PM

I didnt get head when I bought my boat .

Clammer · 12-12-2003, 09:20 PM

If you did you probably wouldn,t know it

chris L · 12-12-2003, 09:25 PM

exsqueeze me ? now lets not go there . if it aint oral I dont want to talk about it !

macojoe · 12-12-2003, 11:25 PM

I got one and took it out to use the space!! Now we have the bucket system!!

JohnR · 12-13-2003, 11:03 AM

Clammer - why would you want the 22?

Clammer · 12-13-2003, 02:39 PM

WHy not ==========with the 150 4-stroke/////////

I can quietly smash into the rocks

JohnR · 12-13-2003, 02:54 PM

You can't quietly do anything, boat or no boat, especially when the blues are around...

You have the most economical boat for its size that you've ever owned, you had it custom outfitted as close to what you want as humanly possible, you have an engine that can protect itself even from you (hence my visit out to Conimicut that day

), the boat is big enough for you to ENJOYABLY run around south of PJ from your slip but still small enough that you can top it off with gas cans. And you want to trade all of that it for an extra foot, oil changes, and probably 10 grand? Are we going to have another winter of you being confused and flip flopping back & forth and you driving Sheila ^&$**

# nuts

? In all seriousness, you got a sweet boat, outfitted the way you want, Status Quo manno....

Clammer · 12-13-2003, 03:11 PM

@#$%

macojoe · 12-13-2003, 03:59 PM

Don't listen to John!! He is just jelouis that his boat is still a planter!!

I have a 20 footer and love it. Easy to trailer good on gas and on a good day I can go 20 miles out Cod fishing

Bigger boat less tralierable, more gas and on a bad day, bang all the way home from 20 miles out with a load of Cod.

Clammer · 12-13-2003, 04:35 PM

Yea MJ John,s gets real good gas miliage from his yard & the weather doesn,t effect him either//////////////

JohnR · 12-13-2003, 04:59 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by macojoe
Don't listen to John!! He is just jelouis that his boat is still a planter!!

I have a 20 footer and love it. Easy to trailer good on gas and on a good day I can go 20 miles out Cod fishing

Bigger boat less tralierable, more gas and on a bad day, bang all the way home from 20 miles out with a load of Cod.

MJ - Couple Points

I was trying to talk Clammer out of spending another 10K to move up 1 year newer and one foot bigger. And you won't be the one talking to him about it all winter long. He's got a pretty stinkin' nice boat as it is. As for the planter comments, my boat wasn't anywhere near complete when I got laid off and it wasn't a financial benefit to get it done like your boat was, so there

Now anytime you want to compare the ride of your boat -v- the ride of mine (once its splashed

) from twenty miles anywhere, hehehehe... 'Course I agree yours will get more mileage AND be easier to trailer but mine will handle more snot and more snot comfortably

. Now if you were smart, you would have let me give you a couple hundred bucks for your bracket

before you installed it

macojoe · 12-13-2003, 06:10 PM

Well John while your boat may be better then mine in the snot and all, And I no it is!! It don't mean crap sitting as a big planter!!

As for him buying a new and bigger boat, I think what I was saying is that my 20 footer (which is what he has?) Is all he needs!! 20 feet is a great boat to own!!
As for being stupid for not selling you that bracket for a couple of hundred, I paid $400 so I would have been real stupid!! So I guess I am not

But I no where you can get a nice new one for $1500 Just like mine

I have a Steel Bracket in my basement that is a 18" set back rather then the 28" that I have. It has the platform on it also. Has been coated 3 times with ZRC Galvanitic Compound I can let you have cheap.

JohnR · 12-13-2003, 07:30 PM

Got any pics of that bracket? Is there a floatation chamber? How much does it weigh?

As for the whole planter thing, I "could" have gotten the boat done and had it in the water but that would have been at the expense of my savings account. Unfortunately I have not had money going INTO savings, only out for the past 7 months. Had I been working I would have been in the water too

BigBo · 12-13-2003, 10:25 PM

Just got myself a single engine flotation bracket for $50.00 so

It doesn't have the integrated platform like macojoe's but for the money I paid, I could probably have someone weld one on if I want one and still be ahead of the game.

macojoe · 12-13-2003, 10:53 PM

Yes it has a floation chamber. It is excat copy of the Stainless Marine Bracket I installed on my boat. The only difference is that it is a 18 inch set back, and made of steel.
It is Heavy and made with 1/2 inch stock, except for the swim plat form which is 1/4 inch. It will take anything size motor you would want it to.

here are some pic's. It is Gray from the ZRC and can be top coated with what ever color you want.

Just a thought. If you can't find something else in your price range. This is going to be a cheap deal.

macojoe · 12-13-2003, 10:54 PM