Recent content by Captain Starbucks

RoundsComplete, I will definitely take you up on your offer. I'll PM you my contact info. Thank you much. Rob

Aaahhh thanks. You know, enough people keep telling me that life's about to change I'm starting to believe it! I'm still all over the place with boats, but after making a bad choice last time, I am probably over analyzing everything, just don't want to get caught in that trap again. I've just...

Thanks Megabyte. I appreciate and respect your info not only in this thread, but in the myriad of other threads I've read. Good stuff. Baby on the way (next week) so nothing is going to happen anytime soon, but research is half the fun! Rob

That's the type of answer I wanted to hear. Thank you. I wanted someone to come right out and say I'm not crazy for considering a 16 degree XL for offshore use. I was kind of hot on a Grady 232 until people say they are very hard to plane below 20 MPH. The waters I go in, it's not at all...

Thanks for the responses guys, but I think I wasn't very clear on what I wanted to know. I want to get a 25 footer. I want to be able to get the less expensive XL. People say it pounds offshore. Other people say it's good enough offshore if you slow down. I haven't ridden an XL BUT I have...

I'm considering buying a 2520. I have been able to fish out of a 2320 at least a dozen times this summer offshore mostly 35+ miles out. I'd like to get away with the 2520 XL just due to the purchase cost and fuel but realize there will be a ride penalty for offshore use. Since I have zero...

The shipper is giving me a revised quote. He stated it would be $10,200 "lift to lift" from your place to Seattle. I should have mentioned it was on a trailer. Anyway, waiting to hear back from him on that. I can tell you this though, he's going to have to reeeeeeeeallly improve his price...

FYI Joeboat only ships as far as Ohio... Still checking around to see if it's practical to ship one of these fatties coast to coast.

Bryan, You mentioned you had the name of a shipper when I talked to you a while ago. My boat finally sold. My question to you, or anybody else out there that's had experience shipping wide body boats across state lines is: Do shippers charge you for every single wide load permit through all...

What trailer comes with it? How many hours on the engine?

Thank you for sending me the pics Twoboater. I uploaded them here: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=14671&p=100597#p100597

These pics were sent to me by Twoboater on request. Looks like he did a great job!

Yes! Need pics. That just opened up a whole new world of available boats.

Thanks for the replies everybody. My wife and i went up to look at the boat today. I won't bore you with the details but we will not be buying that boat. The good news is that I've got the green light to buy a 2530!

Dana, You are correct, new outdrive and new engine. I was just preparing myself for the worst after all I know about letting an outdrive sit in the salt most of the time. At the very least, I'd have the drive pulled at the inspection and freshened up anyway. There are a lot of pilothouse...