Why choose a center console?
02-12-2019 | 11:32 AM
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I will keep my big block offshore style boat because that's what I like not my passengers. I'm the one fueling, maintaining and paying for it not them. Call me greedy. If I or my family want to go on a party boat or CC I could just be a guest on someone else's. Im lucky I have plenty of friend who are always looking to take people out. My idea of a great day on the water is meeting people at a raft off with my go fast and jumping on others with lots of room. Some of the other CC owners also like going for a blast in my boat. IMO the goal is to roll with a community of friends with different style boats and then you get the best of all worlds. A smart person just has a lot of friends and doesn't own a boat LOL.
02-12-2019 | 12:41 PM
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I owned a C.C. long before they became fashionable and you could run it and wash it and walk away. Now they are so blinged out and weather exposed I wouldn't want to clean one after the 10 guests depart.
02-12-2019 | 01:01 PM
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Maybe I am anti social but I don't want that many people on the boat to deal with their schedules, wants etc. If you are talking new then it is different as the new CC's are nuts for performance speed etc, but I would most likely get a OB cat if I was spending that type of money, we still like running fast, most of the time we cruise from 50-70 and hold it there for 30-60 mins. The cat would raise that.
When I look at replacing what I got in the same price range, that would mean a fishing CC and I don't fish.
As for reliability I have to say my 500's (Totally stock), have been really good. I did the top end maintenance at 300ish hours and pretty much run the motors. Close to 600 now. Fuel burn I get 1.8-2 mpg, unless I slow down to 40-45 then it SUCKS the gas. When repower comes along I most likely will go with a LS base injected motor, the ski boat/ air boat/ work boat guys are getting thousands of hours out of those units in my power range, for me to convert to OB would cost more.
Paying for glass work, setup time changing to OB etc.
That said when I look at OB sport boats (very few around) like the 33 AT I find those would better fit the way we boat. If we were still in the mid west where EVERY weekend we stayed on the boat that would be perfect, easy to tow, lots of cabin room and cockpit room, plenty to say about it.
But now really a Doug Wright cat would be the "Cats Ass" for me!
When I look at replacing what I got in the same price range, that would mean a fishing CC and I don't fish.
As for reliability I have to say my 500's (Totally stock), have been really good. I did the top end maintenance at 300ish hours and pretty much run the motors. Close to 600 now. Fuel burn I get 1.8-2 mpg, unless I slow down to 40-45 then it SUCKS the gas. When repower comes along I most likely will go with a LS base injected motor, the ski boat/ air boat/ work boat guys are getting thousands of hours out of those units in my power range, for me to convert to OB would cost more.
Paying for glass work, setup time changing to OB etc.
That said when I look at OB sport boats (very few around) like the 33 AT I find those would better fit the way we boat. If we were still in the mid west where EVERY weekend we stayed on the boat that would be perfect, easy to tow, lots of cabin room and cockpit room, plenty to say about it.
But now really a Doug Wright cat would be the "Cats Ass" for me!
02-12-2019 | 04:01 PM
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We all have different wants. My boat works for me. If passengers don’t like it they won’t be passengers. I don’t go places and hang on the boat. We are either doing a run to restaurant where we get off the boat or we go throw the anchor and get in the water.
02-12-2019 | 04:24 PM
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Agree 100%. But that's not the reason that I'll migrate to a CC for the next boat. The CC is more comfortable for hanging with guests, the cockpits for the go-fasts are small and cramped. I'm also done with squeezing into a bilge...done. Been there done that for 30 years. Longevity of outboards is another factor, cruising with a top on to keep out of the sun is another. I work outside pretty much 365 a year, limiting sun exposure is appreciated these days.
However, nothing will turn my head like the rumble or look of the go-fast, nothing, but for me the time has some for something different.
However, nothing will turn my head like the rumble or look of the go-fast, nothing, but for me the time has some for something different.
This 100%......... shade, silent longevity are a really nice combination!
02-12-2019 | 04:27 PM
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Luckily my 45 offers great cockpit space and cabin
AND lots of room in the engine compartement makes for easy maintenance!
i enjoy reading all your opinions! Thanks oso for that !
AND lots of room in the engine compartement makes for easy maintenance!
i enjoy reading all your opinions! Thanks oso for that !
02-12-2019 | 06:41 PM
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Buying a cruiser for the wife and friends...Will NOT get rid of the Monkey just so "RGPIII", "Wrench Monkey", the rest of us knuckleheads and I can continue to blast poker runs and bars at will....NOTHING LIKE THE SOUND OF BIG BLOCKS AGAINST A RESTAURANT DOCKS ....
02-12-2019 | 07:04 PM
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I maintain a 1990 v4 Evinrude, a 1986 Merc 46 black max, a 1994 Johnson v6 ocean-runner, a pair of 2010 Suzuki DF250s, a 2017 Yamaha f115, a pair of 2019 Yamaha 300s, a 2006 350hp small block volvo, and a pair of 1984 330s - 100% my self. oh yeah and a 2007 deleted 6.7L cummins.
They all have about the same amount of issues - excluding the <10 hours yamahas, Honestly the older ones other than wiring issues are the least trouble. The 4-stroke outboard faithful are starting to sound like the Cummins truck guys... "25MPG and 250k miles just getting broken in!" Nothing stops time - or internet "experts" IMO
Give me a fuel injected big block any day they are the easiest! And they sound good! And the look good!
+1 on cleaning an big outboard blingy CC - that is a lot of SeaDeck, and cleaning the console/hardtop isn't fun either!
They all have about the same amount of issues - excluding the <10 hours yamahas, Honestly the older ones other than wiring issues are the least trouble. The 4-stroke outboard faithful are starting to sound like the Cummins truck guys... "25MPG and 250k miles just getting broken in!" Nothing stops time - or internet "experts" IMO
Give me a fuel injected big block any day they are the easiest! And they sound good! And the look good!
+1 on cleaning an big outboard blingy CC - that is a lot of SeaDeck, and cleaning the console/hardtop isn't fun either!
