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Sea Fox is built about 10 miles from my house. Its teh same family that brought you Renken Boats. They were very cheap and under built to begin with, but I'll have to say they've brought the quality up quite a bit(and price). They started out with some splashed hulls and new decks, A few years ago, they got serious and hired some real designers and came out with a whole new lien up of boats. They used to sell against trophy and Sea Pro, now they market them against Key West and Sea Hunt. Personally, they have a bad reputation that honestly they may not deserve. I wouldn't own an older one, the new ones are very nice. If you search on the hull truth, you'll get all kinds of horror stories about them
 
BTW, I was in Southport Sunday as well. I took Kendall to the aquarium and rode the ferry from Ft Fisher to Southport on the way home
 
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BTW, I was in Southport Sunday as well. I took Kendall to the aquarium and rode the ferry from Ft Fisher to Southport on the way home
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My kids were at Fort Caswell for a Youth Retreat Saturday - Monday...the girls rode the van with the group but my son was fishing a tournament Saturday morning so my wife and I dropped him off then stayed the night at my parents place a Holden Beach.

That was an amazing amount of rain Sunday...like a hurricane without the wind.
 
I don't have any experience with Sea Fox, but something I've noticed is they seem to stretch the boats length for marketing reasons. Alot of this includes cap molded bow pulpits and euro transoms. If you look at one from the side, the actual running surface from where the keel starts to curve up towards the bow to the back edge of the euro transom seems small for the overall length of the boat. Something with a "23" foot hull length ends up having less room than some 18 footers.


Although these days many manufacturers are guilty of this. I wouldn't be interested in a newer Wellcraft either.

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I agree on the new boats, but it seems that the boats made in the mid 2000's that were made for the SKA 23' and under class are all in the 25 foot range but called 23's.
 
both the pursuit and teh wellcraft look nice. As far as the Sea Fox's go, I'd say around 2006? If you notice, all the older models were factory rigged with Suzukis, the newer models are all rigged with Yamahas.
 
Ok, so now lets talk about your favorite walk around cuddy boats.

I had a GW 25 Sailfish way back and really liked it, but a boat that size would be too big for trailering to the keys.

I always liked the GW 24 Explorer...obviously one of the "newer" ones with the SeaV2 hull would be what I would be looking .
 
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randlemanboater said:
Ok, so now lets talk about your favorite walk around cuddy boats.

I had a GW 25 Sailfish way back and really liked it, but a boat that size would be too big for trailering to the keys.

I always liked the GW 24 Explorer...obviously one of the "newer" ones with the SeaV2 hull would be what I would be looking .
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X2 Always liked the GW walkarounds also. Functional, good looking, no nonsense layout. They would be one of my first choices also.
 
23 ft Dusky

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23ft Dusky Center Console - $18000 (Harris Neck)

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1995 Dusky 233 with Evinrude Ocean Pro 225 ready to fish, fully operational. Fished weekly and in great shape. Water pump replaced each year. Two new AGM batteries and electronic isolator system. Lenco trim tabs, T-Top, leaning post, plenty of storage. fish box, 40 gallon live well, fresh and raw wash down, electronics box, vhf radio, top-gun outriggers, stereo. Two 60 gallon fuel tanks. Lift stored, trailer available but not included in this price
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randlemanboater said:
It says Evinrude on the cowl and in the add but the paint says Bombardier era Johnson.
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BRP bought EVINRUDE and pretty well dropped the JOHNSON name. Around 98 most all JOHNSON's went to 4 strokes, and around 01 I believe the last JOHNSON's came out in 2 strokes. It looks like an early 98-early 01 to me from the cowling, AKA FICHT engine. Starting in 01 they redesigned the bigger FICHTS and made them ALOT better, but this one looks like an earlier model.
 
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Who has any experience with a CAT?

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I've never been on one, but have heard some real horror stories about them. From what I have heard from friends who have ridden in them, they handle great going directly into or with the seas, BUT they can be downright DANGEROUS quartering into the seas. If one hull catches before the other they tend to hook and go that way throwing you, and when the other hull does catch you get thrown back the other way. My dad lost one of his favorite polls fishing with some guys on a cat because of this. Every rod in the top holders got thrown over when the one hull caught and threw them, and when the other one caught it threw all of them almost out of the boat. This was on a slightly choppy day in the GULF, and nothing compared to what you guys in the atlantic have to deal with. After hearing about this one first hand, my dad never went back out with those guys, and I never had the urge to go and try it out for myself.
 
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