And besides, I've never had the pleasure of owning a Bay-Liner and
I'm too old and wise to aquire one now.
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I think that in the end it all comes down to what your usage end
expectations are. One of my neighbors has a mid 20s center console
with a couple of large Mercs on it. He seems to like it just fine but
they only go out once or twice a month, and always keep it covered in
a boat lift. If he was fishing it hard every day in the Gulf, or on
the east coast in the ocean, I suspect his experience would be
different.
That actually sounds like what most of the offshore guys run here
fishing out about 40-60 miles. Those grouper cost them about $100 a
pound ;-)
That kind of boat made sense when gas was 45 cents a gallon.
It was 2.759 the last time I filled my cans. The 50 gallons that lasts
me a month or more would barely get them out of sight of land.
They aren't making them because they aren't selling.
You can't swing a dead cat without hitting something similar in Charleston. They are more necessary here because the Gulf Stream is so far off-shore. About 75 miles. Haul ass out there, fish, then haul ass home. Refill and repeat.
It is a similar run here if you want deep water. I always tell these
guys if they wanted to do blue water fishing, they are just on the
wrong coast. I can get to the Gulf Stream on my pontoon boat in about
15-20 minutes in the Keys.
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Sometimes fishing is just a good excuse for a boat ride. :-)
We figured out we don't need a reason for a boat ride.
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