TommyMcK
Jetboaters Lieutenant
- Messages
- 141
- Reaction score
- 321
- Points
- 162
- Location
- SW Florida / Middle Chesapeake
- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2023
- Boat Model
- Wake
- Boat Length
- 22
This is just my personal experience, so take this for what it's worth.
I got a place in SW Florida recently that I'm spending half-time plus in. I also have a place on the Chesapeake (where I'm from and will always have a presence), and after letting go of my precious 2003 AR230, I've had a 222XD for the past year there. Well, in Florida, I reasoned that a Monterey 255SS was a more sensible boat. So, I got one. I have to say though that I just haven't got along with it. It's beautiful, but it handles like a pig at slow speeds, and it's just not as fun.
Charlotte Harbor is certainly no more choppy than the Chesapeake, but I swear that my 222XD handles the chop better in spite of the hull on the Monterey.
So, the current plan is to ditch the Monterey for a 255XD. We'll see how that nets out.
The icing on the cake was spending last weekend with the 222. It was far and away a better boat for me.
![IMG_8509.jpg IMG_8509.jpg](https://jetboaters.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/data/attachments/221/221782-c866c947929f65fa0b5d766c224f42ca.jpg?hash=yGbJR5KfZf)
![IMG_0356.jpg IMG_0356.jpg](https://jetboaters.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/data/attachments/221/221783-9928c14e00b6864b7549e8b86b7d262f.jpg?hash=mSjBTgC2hk)
I got a place in SW Florida recently that I'm spending half-time plus in. I also have a place on the Chesapeake (where I'm from and will always have a presence), and after letting go of my precious 2003 AR230, I've had a 222XD for the past year there. Well, in Florida, I reasoned that a Monterey 255SS was a more sensible boat. So, I got one. I have to say though that I just haven't got along with it. It's beautiful, but it handles like a pig at slow speeds, and it's just not as fun.
Charlotte Harbor is certainly no more choppy than the Chesapeake, but I swear that my 222XD handles the chop better in spite of the hull on the Monterey.
So, the current plan is to ditch the Monterey for a 255XD. We'll see how that nets out.
The icing on the cake was spending last weekend with the 222. It was far and away a better boat for me.
![IMG_8509.jpg IMG_8509.jpg](https://jetboaters.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/data/attachments/221/221782-c866c947929f65fa0b5d766c224f42ca.jpg?hash=yGbJR5KfZf)
![IMG_0356.jpg IMG_0356.jpg](https://jetboaters.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/data/attachments/221/221783-9928c14e00b6864b7549e8b86b7d262f.jpg?hash=mSjBTgC2hk)