LOOKING FOR 23'

[TUNA HELPER]

I know the new guy on the block, I too just recently purchased a place in PV, and big fan of Josh's forum over at BD, I sailed my parents 48' sailboat down in Dec, and now in Paradise Village Marina, great marina (not cheap) but nice as anything in SOC, but I too am looking for a boat to pull down to PV, looking at either the black man 23-26 (mostly the outerbanks model), or the 25 davis, and the Farallon. Will leave the boat down their in dry storage in Paradise Village...any sudgestions on boats would be great...hope to meet every one on the water...

[Professor]

Roy,

Sounds like we’re on the same PV track. As for the boat I would strongly recommend the Blackman Billfisher with the Express Model being a second choice. The Outerbanks, Farallon an Davis are good boats, but unless you can figure out how to air condition them, the cabin will not be a comfortable place during the warmer weather. Besides the visibility from the bridge is a real plus.
Good luck on getting set up down there.

[TUNA HELPER]

Roy,

unless you can figure out how to air condition them, the cabin will not be a comfortable place during the warmer weather.

I know that's a big problem down there a couple of wks ago and it was humid,We have two a/c units on the sailboat....those ran non stop...I guess the drive down from what I have been told is not to bad to Mazatalan...but from there to PV white knuckle time...I did look at a grady but just not that impressed for the money...I looked at parker 2520 nice boat...but I'm not sure about the durability of the boat...I like the idea behind the pilot house if I bring it back to SOC...but I do worry about the heat in the cabin when down south...

[pumphouse]

Another problem I found while shopping and looking at all these different boats is that on the Davis boats unless your going to buy a new one its pretty hard to find a used one for less than 90k and you can buy a nice blackman and put 30k back in your pocket for that. Then the Farallons unless also buying new seem to be very slow. It just seems for an all out sportfisher layout, range and comfort on the water you cant beat the blackman for the price. Just my .02!