New member. What About a New Seacraft 25?

[Scott]

Otto....You read my mind !! [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

Fellowship ... up here we primarily fish the ocean ( there is some great back bay fishing as Finster can attest to in the Barnegat and Little Egg Bays) but when slipped in the Manasquan River …it's out the Inlet more likely than not….and your heading for the ocean .... As far as the seas go ...Summer we typically we have flat ocean in the am till around mid day .... then we get the sw-s-se afternoon blow with an annoying chop, whitecaps etc ... Spring and Fall are different.... Spring can just be nasty and Fall can have big ground swells with chop on top ....
SIDE NOTE….I caught my first bill fish ..a white marlin (thats why I remember it )in a huge swell from a hurricane that was down south almost 22 years ago. Left the inlet and it was a nice gentle swell… large but nothing that bad....Well by the time the day was done the swell was so big that the 38 would disappear in the trough...and we were only 22 mile out of our inlet. Constant up and down over mountains of water .... and then on the short ride home ( 1 1/2 hours [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]) the chop showed up .... and we had almost constant green water over the bridge on that ride....
I get a real kick out of some people when they talk about how dry a boat is .... There is no such thing in weather !!! and Any boat is dry when there is no wind !!! Want to stay dry don’t go out ….or buy a cabin cruiser…Sorry …just getting “excited”

SO the weather up here is ever changing ….the same as with most places ….. I have fished many a January and February out of Jupiter (that’s a fun Inlet !!!) and Palm Beach in the northerly blows (bucking the stream ) only to get our butts kicked !!!!

TG….As I eluded to in my first post 26 Re..., and as abe mentions, the 26 might not be a bad idea ….. as you know they are a dime a dozen in the area ….. and the dealer is a great guy !!! and usually has a barely used one (due to upgrades to 32’s) sitting in the lot . I don’t know what a new one is going for …..I did go for a ride on the new 24 …. Way to much money and underpowered ( boat needs two motors) …but at that point I would move up to the 26 ……

The SeaCraft dealer that used to be in the area had a demo 32 …. Never sold ..and he went under or sold out ( that broker that just got sent to the "big house " used to work here !!!!)…..Anyhow that 32 showed up a couple months ago in Navasink I believe for sale as a demo with low hour motors for under $80K (saw it in the paper)….. that would have been a nice deal !!!! [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]