Pacific 2025
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2020 4:50 pm
Greetings,
It's been a LONG time since I have posted. While I peruse the site occasionally, I figured with the shutdown who is not looking for fish and alloy pics!?!
I bought my 2004 Pacific 2025, used in 2008. It has been a great boat however, it did have some issues. I posted about this years ago and this forum was a big help. The hard top was a homemade nightmare; no welds, all bolts, novice design, lot's o problems; cracking of the welds on the center console, plexi-glass windows were not gasketed and they rattled like crazy and loudly, the rod holders were mounted to a bolted tube that would loosen while underway allowing the mount tube to rotate down - often hitting people in the head, a mudflap - yes a mudflap was installed over the tackle hatch on the front of the console and the whole thing was ugly as hell.
Despite the issues, the the boat has been great and it allowed me to get onto the fish and good times, mostly in RI, CT and NY waters.
To address the hard top, a while back I had Winninghoff Boats (North Shore Boston) build a new top and add spray rails - reverse chine to the hull. Jack Winninghoff was very old and passed on a few years later, he was an absolute gem, mentally very sharp, a pleasure to do business with and a true gentleman. He bought me lunch both when I dropped off and picked up the boat! His lead builder now runs Winninghoff, I can't remember his name. He did all the work on my boat and is very talented.
I'm now super happy with my custom Winninghoff Pacific. The hard top looks and works great and the the spray rails are a game changer, again thanks to this forum. Credit to Alloy Toy who did and posted about the same spray rail modifications. The Pacific hull is far superior with the mod. In the chop, the factory design would allow sheets of water up the sides of the hull and often into my or a passengers face, it was a VERY wet ride, brutal when windy. The ride is dramatically better with the added rails, shocking the first time I used it. Now it's a very dry ride throwing the water away from the hull, more stable, comfortable and more quickly up on plane This at the cost of losing a little top end speed and fuel efficiency, both of which are negligible.
While we wait for the ramps to open, we will keep catching trout using our aluminum canoe in a local river. I usually don't get to start fishing until mid July with my work schedule so this shut down has been great!
Stay safe and healthy everyone.
Tight lines!
It's been a LONG time since I have posted. While I peruse the site occasionally, I figured with the shutdown who is not looking for fish and alloy pics!?!
I bought my 2004 Pacific 2025, used in 2008. It has been a great boat however, it did have some issues. I posted about this years ago and this forum was a big help. The hard top was a homemade nightmare; no welds, all bolts, novice design, lot's o problems; cracking of the welds on the center console, plexi-glass windows were not gasketed and they rattled like crazy and loudly, the rod holders were mounted to a bolted tube that would loosen while underway allowing the mount tube to rotate down - often hitting people in the head, a mudflap - yes a mudflap was installed over the tackle hatch on the front of the console and the whole thing was ugly as hell.
Despite the issues, the the boat has been great and it allowed me to get onto the fish and good times, mostly in RI, CT and NY waters.
To address the hard top, a while back I had Winninghoff Boats (North Shore Boston) build a new top and add spray rails - reverse chine to the hull. Jack Winninghoff was very old and passed on a few years later, he was an absolute gem, mentally very sharp, a pleasure to do business with and a true gentleman. He bought me lunch both when I dropped off and picked up the boat! His lead builder now runs Winninghoff, I can't remember his name. He did all the work on my boat and is very talented.
I'm now super happy with my custom Winninghoff Pacific. The hard top looks and works great and the the spray rails are a game changer, again thanks to this forum. Credit to Alloy Toy who did and posted about the same spray rail modifications. The Pacific hull is far superior with the mod. In the chop, the factory design would allow sheets of water up the sides of the hull and often into my or a passengers face, it was a VERY wet ride, brutal when windy. The ride is dramatically better with the added rails, shocking the first time I used it. Now it's a very dry ride throwing the water away from the hull, more stable, comfortable and more quickly up on plane This at the cost of losing a little top end speed and fuel efficiency, both of which are negligible.
While we wait for the ramps to open, we will keep catching trout using our aluminum canoe in a local river. I usually don't get to start fishing until mid July with my work schedule so this shut down has been great!
Stay safe and healthy everyone.
Tight lines!