msavold
Jetboaters Captain
- Messages
- 764
- Reaction score
- 1,388
- Points
- 237
- Location
- Columbia, MD
- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2012
- Boat Model
- SX
- Boat Length
- 24
Greetings all!
After a couple of years with a place in South Bethany, DE, renting boats to get a bit of a feel for what would suit us best, 'management' had a couple of outings last summer that were so much fun that she agrees we need our own boat. (Her only condition: it has to have an emergency head for her and when the parents are visiting.)
We'll be running mostly between Ocean City MD and Lewes DE, in the Assawoman bays and Indian River inlet, where shallow doesn't begin to define the place. There are plenty of "deep" (5'-6'+) areas but still there isn't a boat in the area without a finely polished skeg, and many with polished props from running into sandbars. Heck, I hit bottom on one occasion, in a pontoon - while squarely in the middle of the channel!
That got me thinking and looking at Yamahas and immediately I liked what I saw. Initial thought was an AR210 as I thought that would be big enough but now the head issue has us looking at an AR230 or AR240. And this week end I was at the Annapolis boat show and got a demo ride in a 2014 242 Limited! Wanting to move up already and we haven't even bought the first one yet!!! (Oh, and do Yamahas fly or what? The acceleration is incredible.)
So, as I continue the search, any advice/comments on running in shallow water?
After a couple of years with a place in South Bethany, DE, renting boats to get a bit of a feel for what would suit us best, 'management' had a couple of outings last summer that were so much fun that she agrees we need our own boat. (Her only condition: it has to have an emergency head for her and when the parents are visiting.)
We'll be running mostly between Ocean City MD and Lewes DE, in the Assawoman bays and Indian River inlet, where shallow doesn't begin to define the place. There are plenty of "deep" (5'-6'+) areas but still there isn't a boat in the area without a finely polished skeg, and many with polished props from running into sandbars. Heck, I hit bottom on one occasion, in a pontoon - while squarely in the middle of the channel!
That got me thinking and looking at Yamahas and immediately I liked what I saw. Initial thought was an AR210 as I thought that would be big enough but now the head issue has us looking at an AR230 or AR240. And this week end I was at the Annapolis boat show and got a demo ride in a 2014 242 Limited! Wanting to move up already and we haven't even bought the first one yet!!! (Oh, and do Yamahas fly or what? The acceleration is incredible.)
So, as I continue the search, any advice/comments on running in shallow water?