Luke G
12-03-2016, 09:48 PM
G'day everyone,
I spent a long time looking for a boat for my needs, i was after a center cab, with twins, big fuel tanks, bait station and a tower. I looked at all the top builders, both in wa and qld. I hadn't heard of moda custom boats until I saw a build thread on this site with special k - the 8m express and my interest grew.
I got in contact with shane at moda, he had a great attitide and was more then willing to have a go at what I was trying to acheive. This is my 5th boat and I wanted to build a boat that could cater for a number of applications. I mainly go marlin fishing, but also do overnighters chasing reefies and trips to the islands as well as booze cruises with family and freinds on board!
There a quite a few things I wanted, flush mounted dash, lockable cabin, pump manifolds, refigeration and freezers, tackle station, plent of space in the center cab, and to have a decent ride.
Everything with shane was so easy to discuss and as soon as I made any suggestions he came up with a plan and got it done!
I took delivery a few days ago and I am stoked with everything, the trailers very well built and tows so nice, the boat had come out flawless and is a real head turner!
It is 10x more stable then my last boat, a 24ft sailfish american mono, I still cannot beleive how a hull with 22 degrees of deadrise can be so stable, even with 2 up in the tower it dosen't even come close to feeling tippy.
The ride is the best I have been in for an ally boat of its size, it really blew me away. It feels so safe with a following sea with a swell rolling, it tracks straight and never ever felt like it was not in control. Side on is also awesome! Like any trailer boat a big head sea is a challenge, but it was pretty nasty coming out of the seaway in the goldy a couple of days ago and we could still acheive planning speed without too much fuss.
With 175 lean burn suzukis I get to 42 knots flat out spinning 6200 with half fuel and 2 pob. I would love to see how the next size up props run! Cruise speed between pretty much 20 - 30 knots is 1L per km! This suprises me so much, my last boat with a 300 yammy used about 1.5l per km! The boat will plane on one 175 and I can troll at 8 knots using about 12l on one motor or 20l combined. Im just going to troll with one, less fuel and half the hours - win win!
I would recomend shane and his boys to anyone looking at getting a top quality aluminium boat built, they are truely impressive!
I would also like to thank garmin, there gear is incredible and i cant wait to get to use mine to its full potential! Im running 2x 7412, 2x 7407 on the tower, autopilot, gsd 26, cm599lhw 3kw tranny and a ss175h 1kw.
Here are the pics! 11259211259311259411259511259611259711259811259911 2600112601112602112603
I spent a long time looking for a boat for my needs, i was after a center cab, with twins, big fuel tanks, bait station and a tower. I looked at all the top builders, both in wa and qld. I hadn't heard of moda custom boats until I saw a build thread on this site with special k - the 8m express and my interest grew.
I got in contact with shane at moda, he had a great attitide and was more then willing to have a go at what I was trying to acheive. This is my 5th boat and I wanted to build a boat that could cater for a number of applications. I mainly go marlin fishing, but also do overnighters chasing reefies and trips to the islands as well as booze cruises with family and freinds on board!
There a quite a few things I wanted, flush mounted dash, lockable cabin, pump manifolds, refigeration and freezers, tackle station, plent of space in the center cab, and to have a decent ride.
Everything with shane was so easy to discuss and as soon as I made any suggestions he came up with a plan and got it done!
I took delivery a few days ago and I am stoked with everything, the trailers very well built and tows so nice, the boat had come out flawless and is a real head turner!
It is 10x more stable then my last boat, a 24ft sailfish american mono, I still cannot beleive how a hull with 22 degrees of deadrise can be so stable, even with 2 up in the tower it dosen't even come close to feeling tippy.
The ride is the best I have been in for an ally boat of its size, it really blew me away. It feels so safe with a following sea with a swell rolling, it tracks straight and never ever felt like it was not in control. Side on is also awesome! Like any trailer boat a big head sea is a challenge, but it was pretty nasty coming out of the seaway in the goldy a couple of days ago and we could still acheive planning speed without too much fuss.
With 175 lean burn suzukis I get to 42 knots flat out spinning 6200 with half fuel and 2 pob. I would love to see how the next size up props run! Cruise speed between pretty much 20 - 30 knots is 1L per km! This suprises me so much, my last boat with a 300 yammy used about 1.5l per km! The boat will plane on one 175 and I can troll at 8 knots using about 12l on one motor or 20l combined. Im just going to troll with one, less fuel and half the hours - win win!
I would recomend shane and his boys to anyone looking at getting a top quality aluminium boat built, they are truely impressive!
I would also like to thank garmin, there gear is incredible and i cant wait to get to use mine to its full potential! Im running 2x 7412, 2x 7407 on the tower, autopilot, gsd 26, cm599lhw 3kw tranny and a ss175h 1kw.
Here are the pics! 11259211259311259411259511259611259711259811259911 2600112601112602112603