Savor the fact that you own a 228 and you're not on the outside looking in and wishing you could find one.
It doesn't bother me they dropped it, because I'll never be in the market for a $130K new one. And those of us that own one, have a very desirable boat. Just look how many people are...
Chi Town,, that looks great. Cool that Battlewagon worked with you. Definitely a custom mount. Is the base plate a standard mount? The part bolted to the hardtop? It looks smaller than my Sea-Scan mount plate.
Here's some more pictures from our trip. This was Friday before we left. Not quite as calm as it had been. Still caught fish though. Weed lines were broken up more too.
Mine is in my ditch bag at my feet at the helm. Much more accessible than mounted somewhere. I want to be able to grab everything and go if poo hits the fan. For me, no thinking involved whether I have everything or not in my bag to get off my boat in an emergency.
Wife has been talking about Traverse City as a destination. Also talking about going back down to Venice/Sarasota area again. Hard to pass up going to Florida each year.
Yup. Carshow cars fall in that category also. 10 footer, 20 footer.
I'm a 2004,,, it's not a showboat by any means,,, the match is acceptable for me. She still looks good and most people won't see it unless I point it out.
Halfhitch went and looked at that boat. Reach out to him for his impressions. He's in the market for one and he passed on this boat and it's in his backdoor, if that tells you anything.
Most of our boats are older and sun faded, mine included, so the new gelcoat repair you buy from Spectrum or Grady-White, is the original new color and will not be an exact match to the faded gelcoat, hence the color matching.