The Production of My New Boat

[aniceguy]

Next year is the plan. I'll finally have some good rods and reels to be able to fish with and some cash to enter this stuff.

 

See you next year haha.

 

Honestly Mike you dont need great gear and its 60 to join a club and roughly 100 or so to fish a tourny, lots of great guys who will happily share gear and stuff, unless you draw Charles and your trolling senko's all day you ll learn a pile

[aniceguy]

Billy when I sold my 111 and 102 I was thinking that was the way to go, I started to shop it and realized I was around a 2k difference and thought for 2 k I can buy a lot of other things.

[Billy Bob]

Billy when I sold my 111 and 102 I was thinking that was the way to go, I started to shop it and realized I was around a 2k difference and thought for 2 k I can buy a lot of other things.

 

Very Good Point...

 

2K buys a LOT of expensive gasoline...:<(

Edited April 16, 2010 by Billy Bob

[aniceguy]

Billy Bob Im hoping to see the side scan on a lowrance this summer on someones boat and see how it really compared with the humminbird it will be interesting

[ecmilley]

awesone boat bass cat is on my short list of new bass boats if and when i can purchase a new boat.

whens the fishin trip?

[BITEME]

Nice Boat Man!!!!!!!!!!!

Very very nice

[fish_fishburn]

Very nice.. What model is it you bought? If you need a good pilot just pm me.

[aniceguy]

Very nice.. What model is it you bought? If you need a good pilot just pm me.

 

 

its a pantera 2

[Kingsalmon]

Very nice boat Louis. I just have one peev about it. If you are spending really good money for your custom made boat, why would you allow them to put those standard crappy gauges in the dash. Surely, Mercury offers better quality gauges I mean seriously. Everything in that boat is top notch equipment and those things are relics. Just think about a year or two from now when everything is still looking like new and those gauges look like they are twenty years old. Sorry I had to say it. Otherwise, good luck with your baby.

Edited April 17, 2010 by Kingsalmon

[fishnsled]

Very cool to follow along with the progress. Sweet looking ride.

[Gerry]

A few years ago I had the pleasure of spending a day on a Pantera II while fishing in a BASS tournament and I can say it was a sweet ride....fast too. And this coming from a guy who had a Triton TR21 at the time. You'll like the Basscat.

[fish_fishburn]

Was thinking the same about the guages.... Had the same ones on my 95 Nitro. Water pressure guage went out twice and the tach also a few times. They are by no-means the smart guages.

[Billy Bob]

Very nice boat Louis. I just have one peev about it. If you are spending really good money for your custom made boat, why would you allow them to put those standard crappy gauges in the dash. Surely, Mercury offers better quality gauges I mean seriously. Everything in that boat is top notch equipment and those things are relics. Just think about a year or two from now when everything is still looking like new and those gauges look like they are twenty years old. Sorry I had to say it. Otherwise, good luck with your baby.

 

I believe with the Lowrance HDS units you can network in your Merc motor and get many of the reading right on the Lowrance HDS units...but you better check if it's capatable with Merc outboards.

[aniceguy]

I thought about the smart guages, and I can see the merits of it, but 1500 more didnt make sense besides the only guages that are important to me any how are the trim water pressure and tach

 

Lowrance could network into the guages since i don thave lowrance units that was another reason for the standard package

[JohnF]

your safe might do 73 max

 

Get a better prop.

 

JF

[Billy Bob]

Don't you just love how the rest of us want to spend YOUR money...

[aniceguy]

Don't you just love how the rest of us want to spend YOUR money...

 

lol.......actually awsome comments, sorta makes me think that I wasnt the only one to think through all the issues........end of the day 14 to 16 days and its here....

 

JF thats the other thing the factory is sending a 26p 4 blade trophy plus, and I ll find

a26 fury afterwards

Edited April 17, 2010 by aniceguy

[solopaddler]

your safe might do 73 max

 

Oh, well that's okay then.

[Dutch]

Congrats on the new boat.

 

Bass Cat is a top notch company, builds and supports their boats with total class from what I have read and heard.

 

You will love it.

[JohnF]

lol.......actually awsome comments, sorta makes me think that I wasnt the only one to think through all the issues........end of the day 14 to 16 days and its here....

 

JF thats the other thing the factory is sending a 26p 4 blade trophy plus, and I ll find

a26 fury afterwards

 

Waytago. Do I see a 75 or 76 in yer future? Keep that hull clean son and invite me for a ride one day. Gotta love goin' fast.

 

JF

[aniceguy]

I think I would need to drop 50 eat some re fried beans for afterburner effects run down the niagara river in a 50mile sw wind to do 75 or 76 my ever expanding girth just wont let me lol

[fish_fishburn]

I would definitely look at the TEMPEST ll prop by merc. It's a three blade, and you will get more top end then any four-blade. A 25 pitch will probably take care of you just fine. If not a 26.

[aniceguy]

I would definitely look at the TEMPEST ll prop by merc. It's a three blade, and you will get more top end then any four-blade. A 25 pitch will probably take care of you just fine. If not a 26.

the four blade I figured get out of the factory because I want it for rougher water, you think a tempest? I have been reading that those fury props are almost a perfet fit for the p2

[aniceguy]

It was a tough weekend with me having kids baseball, while suffering through a mid Spring cold/ flu or

anything in between. Here i am just a common Joe not a pro but a single paying customer. the chap from Bass Cat that was sending me daily updates on my build was on holiday and I though there goes my updates so bummed I was a bit.

 

Today Im sitting and trying to wait until the buckleys kicks in ( ya it does suck) and I see on my phone an

update on a bass fishing site of my build in progress, nope the pictures were not emialed to me rather they them selves

posted them on an internet site..... talk about taking the next step in customer support....

 

Anyhow I see soe good progress was made but what really impressed me is the true colors are showing now

 

The Charcoal color and the remington steel of the cap are much more accurate. I think Im going to extend a blog on this build and build it to a multi year excercise on the cat and Milo.....

 

Sorry if this is boring but for those that like this sort of post...............enjoy

 

The back of the hull again the colors are much better and I see some awsome progress

 

 

 

a somewhat more slanted view of the hull...lookin sweet

 

[Leecher]

Awesome aniceguy

Very nice of them to send you pics to see the progress

Looking real good!!!

Leechman