I am just moving up from a large trailer boat and am going to break the local mold and move to an express boat. There are virtually none of this genre in New Zealand but it is just right for my mode of boating and fishing.
I was in Maryland this May and drove a CC28 on the Chesapeake having done a lot of 'internet research' prior to my trip to the States (which was on business). My short list is pretty much the CC28 or the Albemarle 280XF. I am also mightily impressed with the new Henriques 30 (I spent a day at the Henriques factory in New Jersey) but I am not sure I am US$100,000 more impressed than I am by the other two.
This may sound daft but just about the only thing I didn't like about the CC28 I trialled was the helm station. I see there is a picture on this board of a CC28 with what appears to be the helm off a CC32. Is this a factory option or is it now the standard configuration? It looks like the old helm would not even have the room for a couple of Raymarine E80s on it and I am a boating electronics junky - I need room for at least a couple of 12" screens. Even better, as I would ideally like to buy a 2005 -7 boat, has anyone retrofitted this CC32 helm station onto an older boat.
Any information would be gratefully received.
David Theobald
Auckland
New Zealand
I was in Maryland this May and drove a CC28 on the Chesapeake having done a lot of 'internet research' prior to my trip to the States (which was on business). My short list is pretty much the CC28 or the Albemarle 280XF. I am also mightily impressed with the new Henriques 30 (I spent a day at the Henriques factory in New Jersey) but I am not sure I am US$100,000 more impressed than I am by the other two.
This may sound daft but just about the only thing I didn't like about the CC28 I trialled was the helm station. I see there is a picture on this board of a CC28 with what appears to be the helm off a CC32. Is this a factory option or is it now the standard configuration? It looks like the old helm would not even have the room for a couple of Raymarine E80s on it and I am a boating electronics junky - I need room for at least a couple of 12" screens. Even better, as I would ideally like to buy a 2005 -7 boat, has anyone retrofitted this CC32 helm station onto an older boat.
Any information would be gratefully received.
David Theobald
Auckland
New Zealand
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