New To Me 2008 Parker 2320 w/Yamaha F250

[willyk9]

Closed the deal on a 2008 2320, Yamaha F250 with 96 hours on the motor, surveyed almost like a new boat.

Have a list of projects for now and if anyone has pictures to post or information that would be great.

- Portable live well, will be plumbing above deck. Looking for 30-40 gallon oval that can be in center of deck and used as bait table also.
- Add a rod holder on each side just aft of cabin.
- Anti fatigue mats for the cabin.
- Stainless cup holders on side of console.
- SeaDek coming pads.
- Most likely remove rear seat. If I do I would look to sell if anyone interested.
- Adding Garmin 741xs or 840xs, flush mount or not?
- GT 21 or GT 23 thru hull transducer.
- Stereo with speakers, looking for box speakers one for inside one for outside.

 

[ThePeterParker]

Congratulations!! Best of luck to you

 

[school skipper]

Nice!. Looks like a nice score!.. Patiently awaiting for the right one to come along for me.
Good luck!
If you don't mine me asking, What did you get her for?

 

[Makoman232]

Congrats on a great boat!!
Where did you find it?

One other project I would suggest is dri-dek tiles in the cabin.

Best of luck

 

[willyk9]

School Skipper sent you a pm.

Boat was local to me in Island Park at a marina, I'm in and out of there a lot and about a month ago previous owner decided to sell. From what I could find it wasn't advertised on any major boating sites.

 

[tomysel]

Sent u a pm...

 

[Lucky John]

Congrats. 96 hours on an 08...........good god the previous owner never used it. Check out all the engine zincs, even though low hours 8 years is a long time. Enjoy

 

[willyk9]

Congrats. 96 hours on an 08...........good god the previous owner never used it. Check out all the engine zincs, even though low hours 8 years is a long time. Enjoy

Thanks! Previous owner had 3 boats, engine was marina maintained every year by professional Yamaha mechanic.

 

[willyk9]

She's wet for the season.....looking forward to adding all my goodies. Notice I have added an SE Sport 400 hydro foil and removed the bench from the back seat. May leave the back part of the seat in for now.

 

[saltyfish]

A beauty. Congrats.

Bryce

 

[shawnee83]

Congrats on your new 2320! As for speakers, I mounted a set of Polk Atrium 4's in the cabin last summer. They are in the upper rear corners. I would not recommend anything bigger as you will have clearance issues when sitting on the bench seat. I removed a set a Poly Planar speakers that actually sounded pretty good and I plan to mount them under the gunnels in the deck area.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00378 ... ge_o05_s02

 

[willyk9]

Thanks, no stereo at the moment but will eventually be adding one. Really like the Garmin 741xs I had added with a GT-21 thru hull transducer.

Will be mounting a tablet outside the wheelhouse, with the Garmin Helm app you can display and control the 741 from it. If I'm on the deck and want to check the GPS or FF don't need to go back or look back into cabin.

 

[shawnee83]

Very nice! By the way, you may want to check out the Navtronics App for your iPad as you are using it on board anyway. I use my iPad as a primary chart and my Lowrance unit on full screen fish/depth finder and that chart as my back up. Yor system is much nicer and newer than my HD5 but the Navtronics works really well and would be a great back up system to your Garnin. Especially since it's only $60 and it gives you a 10" screen chart plotter. iPad does need to be cellular for it to work as it needs to have the GPS antenna. I've been 28 to 30 miles out with it and accuracy is spot on. Check it out.

 

[willyk9]

Some more progress over the weekend.

 

[JRR7127]

Nice setup you have . Looks like you're setting it up to be a toggin machine with that pulpit setup. Best of luck with her, enjoy the upcoming season. It can't get here soon enough!

 

[willyk9]

Thanks, yes do a fair amount of bottom fishing and will never single anchor again!! Without a true hauler running down the middle with 2 anchor balls works very well.

 

[grouperjim]

Super nice setup you have there.

 

[THEGAME]

would love to see more of your to anchor set up and do you pull both anchors at once ?

 

[willyk9]

I'll try and get some more pictures of my anchor setup.

- Using 8 or 12 lb anchors with 8' of 5/16 chain. 900' of line on the starboard since this is the one I drop first. 600' of line on the port.
- Keep it all in baskets behind the wheelhouse bulkhead.
- Anchors are dropped from the side on the deck and with the lines ran through the rollers over the bow rail there is nothing to do.
- When lifting I put an anchor ball on each anchor. Usually have each 30 degrees off center and run right up the middle with the balls on.
- Anchors come up in the balls behind the boat and all we need to do is pull the line into the baskets on the deck.
- Boat will typically drift back down the middle of the lines while you're retrieving them into the boat.

 

[THEGAME]

thanks sounds good going to try this