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Location: one foot over the line | I had a center console 19 foot Mako bay boat. That thing could handle any water that I could find. Huge front platform and it cleaned up in no time. I was fine with the leaning post, however, after a long day of fishing I needed some kind of back support. The seat in front of the console was nice for passengers, but if you had more than 2 in the boat it wasn't a very comfortable ride for them. The biggest reason for me getting rid of mine though was the rod storage. On my particular model all rods were stored vertically around the console and when I was on the front deck casting with 8-9 foot rods, I really had to watch my back-swing. Took out a couple of rod tips to find that out the hard way. However, lots of newer models have horizontal rod storage now and if I were in the market for a different boat, I would be doing some serious looking at the many options that are out there now. |
