Pacific 1925 with 90hp Honda

[MacCTD]

Got to try out my new to me 2005 Pacific 1925 with a Honda 90hp.
Trailered the boat up to Maine to the lake where I will be using it for the rest of the year, trailered great, the trailer is a single axle Pacific trailer with Kodiak disk brakes.
Put the boat in Saturday morning, the ramp was very shallow, had the truck in to the exhaust pipe and still had to really push the boat to get it off the trailer. Motor fired right up, waited a few minutes to let it warm up, then off we went.
Put about 20 miles on the boat, the motor is super smooth and quiet, I was impressed as it is carbed not FI.
The performance seems about the same if there is 1 person or 4, here are the numbers and a couple pictures.

RPM MPH
3000 10
4000 20
5000 27
6000 32

Boat could maybe have a little more prop but it does not have a super strong holeshot so I will probably leave the 3 blade aluminum on it for now.
All in all I am pleased with the boat, I bought it from CA from about 10 pictures, performance is what I expected with the 90hp.

[welder]

Nice little ride

Now just think if you had a 175 Suzuki like Chris Grands 19 has on it , HOLY SMOKES , it flies.

[Chaps]

Congrads on your new boat. What'd you have before or have you been shopping all this time you've been on the board?

I've had great luck with the BF90 on my Edwing. Something close to 1500 hours on it now, only problems have been related to bad gas issues. Compression is still close to factory specs on all four cylinders and it runs pretty much like it did when new in '98.

[MacCTD]

Congrads on your new boat. What'd you have before or have you been shopping all this time you've been on the board?

I've had great luck with the BF90 on my Edwing. Something close to 1500 hours on it now, only problems have been related to bad gas issues. Compression is still close to factory specs on all four cylinders and it runs pretty much like it did when new in '98.

I had a Worskiff up until about 2 weeks ago, I advertised it online for about 2 months with no real interest, put it in my father's driveway in Ipswich MA and had two people want to buy it within 2 hours. I owned it for a year, made a couple hundred on it when I sold it and had a lot of fun using it.
I have always wanted a Pacific but could not find the right one, I have been looking for about 3 years. The 1925 came up for sale in CA so I talked to the guy and had him send me some pictures, he was retired and kept the boat in his garage, I took a chance and bought it without actually looking at it, turned out great, I have bought a couple cars and motorcycles without looking at them in person before and then were never as good as I thought they would be when they arrived, the 1925 was in better shape than I expected so it worked out great.
I would like to go faster and have a 150hp on it but to be honest the only time I could use it would be when I am by myself as my wife and kids do not like going much over 20mph in the boat which is ok with me, plus the cost would put me way upside down on the boat, I always keep that in the back of my head as I enjoy buying and selling cars, bikes and boats.

This is a picture of the old Workskiff.

[AlloyToy]

I like that boat a lot

[Chaps]

Oh yeah . . . the Workskiff. Sorry for my memory lapse . . .

[Illgotoo]

Honda 90 is not a bad choice according to the numbers you provided.
Not everyone needs to go balls to the walls. The motor looks good with the
boat from the pix.

BTW - I'm curious about your decision to upgrade from the Workskiff to the Pacific. Just for
size? (was the Workskiff 16'?).

[MacCTD]

Honda 90 is not a bad choice according to the numbers you provided.
Not everyone needs to go balls to the walls. The motor looks good with the
boat from the pix.

BTW - I'm curious about your decision to upgrade from the Workskiff to the Pacific. Just for
size? (was the Workskiff 16'?).

I always wanted a Pacific, even though the Pacific is only 3' bigger it feels much more stable and it is definitely dryer, it also self bailing which is better as I will be leaving it on the hook for several weeks at a time a couple hours away.
I would have kept the Workskiff but they are so close in size there are not too many places I would rather use the Workskiff. I also have another boat, non alloy, that I am selling as well, I think I like working on boat and buying and selling them as much as using them, I will probably sell the Pacific in a year or two.

[Illgotoo]

Thanks, Mac. That makes sense to sell when the new boat becomes the "go to" boat.

[Chaps]

Thanks, Mac. That makes sense to sell when the new boat becomes the "go to" boat.

Yeah, I swore I'd never sell my edwing because I was thinking the new bigger boat would be too much for some situations but now that I'm using it I found there wasn't anything I couldn't do with the laConner. So now I'm letting our harbormaster use the edwing since her bayrunner started leaking bad (maybe they'll buy it some day)

[JETTYWOLF]

Hope ya don't mind but I had to save that pic of the one at the dock as it's the best 19' Pacific photo I have seen yet.
I can see myself some day having to down-size, as the world of fishing as we know it down sizes. And I want "THAT" boat made into a "tiller" model with two seats.

When I'm 80 and collecting nothing as retirement, I'll only need a smaller boat, and it'll have to be alloy and a pacific, still.

[gf2020]

Mac, the new boat looks sharp! What lake is that? It looks very nice.

[MacCTD]

Mac, the new boat looks sharp! What lake is that? It looks very nice.

Hey Gordon,
Thanks, it is Long Lake.

[blacklabmarine]

Boat looks great. Sometime when you're up you should come down through the locks - my wife's family has a place on Sebago in Raymond - love to meet you.

The first 19' Pacific that came east ( the first 19' Pacific at all!) I put a 200hp Yamaha 2-stroke on and raced in the lobsterboat races - just a very small console - nothing else, 3/16" bottom, 30 gallon fuel tank - no running lights, no electrical system, no cleats - a rocketship that I still miss to this day - scary fast. Talk about holeshot! Boat lept out ofthe water.

Congrats!!

[MacCTD]

Boat looks great. Sometime when you're up you should come down through the locks - my wife's family has a place on Sebago in Raymond - love to meet you.

The first 19' Pacific that came east ( the first 19' Pacific at all!) I put a 200hp Yamaha 2-stroke on and raced in the lobsterboat races - just a very small console - nothing else, 3/16" bottom, 30 gallon fuel tank - no running lights, no electrical system, no cleats - a rocketship that I still miss to this day - scary fast. Talk about holeshot! Boat lept out ofthe water.

Congrats!!

I actually took that trip a little while ago, nice ride, went over to Kettle Cove marina once in Sebago and got a some sandwichs.
I am up there all the time, let me kow when you will be there, I will take a ride down, the kids like going through the locks.