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Thanks for the kind words guys.

Put on Trax Techs years ago and found no reason to try any other brand.

50 lb Ande Floro leader material

Hey Ron, Hope all is well with you. I was glad to get you guys some fish and I enjoyed our trip. I went with a 265 Penn Yan Competitor with a 10 ft beam. Send me your email address and I'll send you some pictures of your trip.

89 25' Wellcraft Coastal with a nice big cabin and 60 sq ft of fishing platform. 8 ft beam. Sleeps two comfortably. Handles rough water well. She has served me very well and placed in many pro/am tournaments and weighed in many LOC fish Double axle Easy Load trailer 2005 200 hp Yamaha HPDI outboard. (low hrs) 15 hp Honda 4 stroke kicker Control King electronic throttle control on kicker Brand new quality canvas,side curtains and back drop by John Mann in Sodus Pt. 582 Furuno with through hull transducer and high speed fairing. Marks fish and bait on plane. Garmin color gps with Lake charts and memory card. Big John dual planner mast. Barrier coated and bottom painted. Trax Tech tracks Porta Potty VHF Radio AM/FM CD stereo and speakers Safety gear, anchor and line, wash down pump, cleaning station and built in fish box. On board fish cleaning station 120 gal gas tank. 3 bilge pumps. She will hit about 40 mph at WOT and trolls down to about 1 mph on the kicker. Both motors have been broken in to manufacturers specifications and maintained to perfection. I am selling her because I started a charter business and bought a bigger boat. Looks and runs great. Price is $13,500.00 Thanks for looking

You been up to camp lately Steve? I'm heading up next weekend to open up.

Can't beat a couple of 1500 or 2000 Rule automatics. A bit pricey but you don't want to scrimp on bilge pumps. Good luck

Shimano Talora roller rods. 8 footers

Sounds like you need to do some maintenance on those Tekotas. Absolutely no reason for sticky drags on those 600's other than neglect. At least on the 16 I own anyway. All with the original drag washers. No upgrades. Probably just need to grease the drag washers.They are a wet drag system. Counter window I can't help you with as I never had that problem. Good luck.

Been running the same two Tekota 600's with wire for about 9 or 10 years now without any complaints. They have taken many big kings and still going strong. Also have an older set of the Blue Diamond roller rods and a set of Tolara roller rods and I prefer the Shimano Tolaras over the Okumas for Kings. Either way you will be happy. Good luck with your purchase.

Looks good !!! Good luck with your AP.

Convert to hydraulic steering and you will have a much greater selection of AP's and better performance from the unit you put in. I wouldn't say there is a "cheap " way out if you want performance. I know plenty of guys that took the cheap route and they are happy until the wind kicks up a bit. Good luck with your decision.

In general I would say yes, there is a benefit to running hydraulic steering with an AP. Not having any experience with the Raymarine units you are referring to I will leave it at that. Good luck with your project. Glen

Andy the rods I was talking about are Okuma BD-C-1002MH-1 10' I ran them last winter on Seneca with my slide divers and they worked well. Enough backbone to run the full size divers but limber enough to detect hits from some really small LL's and enjoy a battle from those 3-6 lb fish we hit. They work excellent for the LO Browns as well. Good luck with whatever you end up with.

I run a couple of Okuma 10 ft dypsy rods for my slide divers with Braid. Great for LO Browns and Finger Lakes fish. I'll post up the model # after work Andy..

Good luck. Like I said Wellcraft is a great boat

I have an 89 Coastal walk around that will be going up for sale this spring. I bought a 262 Penn Yan to run my business out of. To answer your question Wellcraft Coastals were a quality built boat that handles rough water great. Wellcraft went down the tubes during the height of the recession in 09. I loved the boat and was great for fun fishing with three or 4 guys and the wife and I have spent many over nights in the large cabin. Also did very well in the proams against a lot of bigger boats. Just not big enough for running a Charter business out of She will do about 40 mph at wot with the 200 hp Yami and trolls great on the 15 hp 4 stroke kicker. Cruises like a dream at 30 mph. Hope you find one that you like. Long season with the outboards Over all I would give the Coastal a great rating and not just because I owned one.