| Almost-B-Good - 6/24/2008 7:11 AM
Seeing the electronics is an issue. In my old boat with a big back area and the new boat with a smaller rear area, I had the main locator on the console. It was like a candle to a moth. Anyone in the boat was soon standing between it and me. You could say move please and soon they would be back there again. I know. When someone else was doing the steering and I was standing I was in the sight line too. You just chalk it up as inevitable. But, on the new boat I have an extra locator mounting ball for the Ram mount and Lowrance net connections in the back corner with the kicker so I can move the front locator back there and network it to the console unit. No more people in the way. Neat!
I had the tarp for my old boat made before the kicker was added. I took the tarp back to the place where it was made and they had no problem adding on a hood for the kicker motor. I even took it back when I added more rod holders and other goodies and they stitched leather pads over the sharp accessories to protect the tarp.
Sounds like that old boat was something else. It also sounds like that old boat was perfect! It's pretty hard to compare a aluminum Crestliner to a high performance hull like your 190 and have similar results. A fiberglass hull is so much different. It sounds to me you just need to spend some more time on the water with it and you'll get use to it.
Have you changed your kicker to the starboard side yet? |
