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Now that I have my boat and am beginning projects on her, I figured I’d start a thread of all the upgrades I complete. Shout out to Schock Boats in Newport Beach for making the purchase easy and fun. Below are pictures of her arrival in Newport Beach, prior to the Matson shipment to Hawaii...

I appreciate all the advice. I think the best takeaway I got was the advice someone gave to sell my outboard when it gets up near 1,000 hours. Take good care of it and I can still sell it for a decent amount, rather than waiting until it dies and is worth nothing. Then repower with the latest...

By a lot of trolling, I mean: all of my fishing is trolling. Which is for Mahi Mahi, Ahi, and maybe an unlucky bill fish. I won’t be slow trolling like the salmon guys, but mid 6-10 knots. Grady-White cannot swap the swim step to Port, but they can delete it. I asked about having it mounted...

What did you do to even out the weight distribution?

Aloha, I recently placed an order for a 2021 208 Adventure with the 200 Yamaha DEC. I plan on doing a ton of trolling and am looking into kicker mount options for a little 8-9 Yamaha to keep hours off the main and minimize fuel burn. It’s also a nice safety feature. Question is: what is...

I’m going through Schock Boats in Newport Beach. They can get it to Matson for me pretty easy.

Congrats on getting a new boat, I’m about to put a deposit down to get mine built as well. I opted for the Yamaha 200 DEC (electronic controls). The 200 seemed to have the best fuel burn rates for most of the speeds I’d run and seems to have plenty of power to get the 208 moving. I didn’t think...

Aloha, This forum looks like a great resource as it looks like I’m about to drop a deposit down to have a 2021 208 Adventure built. I sold my first boat a few years ago (a little 18’ runabout), and have had been keeping an eye out for a good used walkaround since then. Hawaii has limited...