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Group; Looking on redoing my bottom paint and wanted to check out which brand would be best for my 209 Escape. The boat sits at a mooring 10 months out of the year in a salt water bay. I usually only trailer it when bad weather is coming or when I'm going on a trip. I've got my eye on a...

Group: I would just like to share the extremely positive experience I had with Rupp Marine. I sent an email to customer service explaining that I had the GT-500 Outrigger bases installed on my boat, but lacked the elbows and poles (long story). The emails were answered solely by Lori...

my 209 I bought a 1997 209 a year ago.Same Hull I believe and my also came with the 175. The boat was immaculate and only had 350 hours on it. I've put 550 hours on it in a year and have nothing but great praise for her! We fish, use it for family outtings, we fish some more and did I...

found an option just wanted to update this in case anyone else is looking for the same sort of item... todd usa makes a bench seat that fits over the existing pedestals and sells for about $600. You can find it on their website (I do not work for Todd BTW)

Hola; The 209 I bough came with a nice Garmin 178c Multipurpose GPS, Sounder, fish thingy (lots of big green fish underneath that won't bite ANYTHING!). My question is this; Can I upgrade my 178c without having to replace all of the connections and the sonar-gps units? thanks AE

Hi: After mostly fishing with my newly bought 209 for the past 2 months, I can see why the leaning post option is better than dual captain chairs...my question is this: Who makes a good aftermarket leaning post with tackle storage AND is there a leaning post that will slide down on the...

Bought my 209 about 2 months ago and have been fishing and having fun on it ever since....I've been catching lots of barracuda (damn pests!) and tuna from 2 pounds to 15...I'm pretty sure we had a few big wahoos get off since they emptied 400 yrds of 80lb test off of a penn 9-0 before it...

oodle I found a cool site that is kinda like Craigslist: www.oodle.com

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