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Originally Posted by Ludicrous |
I have what is perhaps the first 26 Andy built for sale. It's up here in the Tidewater area of Virginia. My son and I bought it together and we love it also. It does lack some features I was accustomed to on my twin 26' Robalo walk around, but it goes places I never thought I could and is a perfect fishing boat. (First words from my wife was "what no bathroom")
We did have some problems with a poorly laminated deck in one spot. We had it out in big seas one day and heard it come apart, But actually, that's not such a bad thing. It demonstrated how class of an outfit Andros is. They sent a truck/trailer from Florida to our home, picked it up, took it back and fixed it and appologized for days. Andy asked if we would rather have a new boat and we said no (class is a two way street). He told us if we ever had a problem again, he would simply swap hulls. No one could ever tell they took it apart and redid it. Try that with one of the mega-companies.
It has a full panel of Garmin 12" and has the full tower with controls. We don't use the tower much. It also has a 250 hp Suzuki. It was too early to get the 300. Frankly, with the flat hull I don't know if I would want to run one with 300 hp. It can get up and dance.
15" of water is not a problem (has a jack plate) and we take it out into the Atlantic for wet and cold striper fishing.
It really is a nice boat and the company that makes it has a good bunch of guys.