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Ytmsn wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:47 am Tusc here is my story. The similarity scares me sometimes!

About 15 years ago I bought a 21 Four Wynns out of an auction. It was okay but nothing special. It was brown and I named it The Floater. My wife didnt like that to much. I didn't know squat about the boat but it turned out to be a good one that made plenty when I sold it.

Then my Dad calls me.from some resort he's at with his motor home up by Lake Michigan. He's found a 23' cuddy that someone traded in at the resort marina and its like brand new. It had been winterized and setting in a storage barn for 5 years when the prior owner traded and they want it gone. I made a sight-unseen offer and they accepted. I drove up the next weekend and picked it up, then took it to our lake place and did the same thing you did. I drug the kids around on tubes, ski's and kneeboards for hundreds of miles. We had that boat for 10 years. It was our water suburban and we thought we was in tall cotton. We didn't know what we didn't know.

Then I got "the bug" and started looking at Chapperal Sunestas 223's. Had made up my mind to buy one when Crownline 240 EX surfaced. I was just about to pull the trigger on one I found but something... something wasn't right. I hesitated for 2 or 3 days, and then my 240 Cobalt showed up on CL. I knew it was a project, I knew it would take the winter, but I knew it was my boat before I ever drove to Dallas the next morning to make an offer and bring it home. That was the day I joined this forum.

My biggest takeaway? I never realized my last two boats rode like dump trucks! With our cuddy I couldn't get up to plane in rough water because it would beat you to death, and I mean hard. With our 262 I can put the tabs down and cruise through whitcaps like butter!
Jeez it's such a difference.

NautiGirl wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2018 6:29 am [
Glad you are settled on one model... My bottle of pappy has a real chance!

What are your must haves in any of these boats?!?

Ytmsn wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:50 am Sorry for the hi-jacks TR. We'll eventually get back around to your original purpose of the thread. Maybe!

Ytmsn wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:47 am My biggest takeaway? I never realized my last two boats rode like dump trucks! With our cuddy I couldn't get up to plane in rough water because it would beat you to death, and I mean hard. With our 262 I can put the tabs down and cruise through whitcaps like butter!
Jeez it's such a difference.

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Table Rockin wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2018 2:17 pm Thanks for the links guys but i think i have one.....its a 2017 R7 WSS thats freaking loaded! Its over my budget but the value proposition is too good to pass up. Holy shit!

tgrace98 wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2018 2:25 pm

Table Rockin wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2018 2:17 pm Thanks for the links guys but i think i have one.....its a 2017 R7 WSS thats freaking loaded! Its over my budget but the value proposition is too good to pass up. Holy shit!

Don't tease us. provide a link!

NautiGirl wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2018 9:46 am

Ytmsn wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:47 am My biggest takeaway? I never realized my last two boats rode like dump trucks! With our cuddy I couldn't get up to plane in rough water because it would beat you to death, and I mean hard. With our 262 I can put the tabs down and cruise through whitcaps like butter!
Jeez it's such a difference.

I can relate to this... These boats are different. I had my 190 for 10 years and it was the small boat in my group of lake friends but everyone always said it rode better than their 22/24 ft boats. I feel like our 222 rides like a bigger boat than it is so I can't imagine how the 262 rides!