Pacific 2025

[Tin Cup]

Greetings,

It's been a LONG time since I have posted. While I peruse the site occasionally, I figured with the shutdown who is not looking for fish and alloy pics!?!

I bought my 2004 Pacific 2025, used in 2008. It has been a great boat however, it did have some issues. I posted about this years ago and this forum was a big help. The hard top was a homemade nightmare; no welds, all bolts, novice design, lot's o problems; cracking of the welds on the center console, plexi-glass windows were not gasketed and they rattled like crazy and loudly, the rod holders were mounted to a bolted tube that would loosen while underway allowing the mount tube to rotate down - often hitting people in the head, a mudflap - yes a mudflap was installed over the tackle hatch on the front of the console and the whole thing was ugly as hell.

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Despite the issues, the the boat has been great and it allowed me to get onto the fish and good times, mostly in RI, CT and NY waters.

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To address the hard top, a while back I had Winninghoff Boats (North Shore Boston) build a new top and add spray rails - reverse chine to the hull. Jack Winninghoff was very old and passed on a few years later, he was an absolute gem, mentally very sharp, a pleasure to do business with and a true gentleman. He bought me lunch both when I dropped off and picked up the boat! His lead builder now runs Winninghoff, I can't remember his name. He did all the work on my boat and is very talented.

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I'm now super happy with my custom Winninghoff Pacific. The hard top looks and works great and the the spray rails are a game changer, again thanks to this forum. Credit to Alloy Toy who did and posted about the same spray rail modifications. The Pacific hull is far superior with the mod. In the chop, the factory design would allow sheets of water up the sides of the hull and often into my or a passengers face, it was a VERY wet ride, brutal when windy. The ride is dramatically better with the added rails, shocking the first time I used it. Now it's a very dry ride throwing the water away from the hull, more stable, comfortable and more quickly up on plane This at the cost of losing a little top end speed and fuel efficiency, both of which are negligible.

While we wait for the ramps to open, we will keep catching trout using our aluminum canoe in a local river. I usually don't get to start fishing until mid July with my work schedule so this shut down has been great!

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Stay safe and healthy everyone.

Tight lines!

[MacCTD]

Looks great, nice write up!!

[theanchor]

what are the chances, that i was reading this post yesterday at work, left to head south to RI, and see your boat traveling north???

looks good!

i had plans a decade ago to have winninghoff do some work on my custom, and sadly life took a turn, and i didn't have him do the work.

[welder]

Great post, thanks for sharing.

[patrisage]

Great post!  I actually had a Pacific 2025 which I wished had reverse chines.  For me this issue was less wetness (though this was real) than down-swell performance.  I found on steep quartering following seas there was a tendency to want to bury the bow, something that I've found reverse chines help with tremendously.
I'm curious as to whether you noticed much down-swell performance change after adding your chines?  If Pacific made a boat with good reverse chines, I think it would be my dream boat.

Interesting Ausie take:
https://waveriderboats.com.au/

[Tin Cup]

Patrisage, yes spot on, the boat performed exactly as you describe.  The welded on chines totally changed the ride for the better, it was dramatic and 100% worth it. Of course you can still stuff the bow if not careful, but the hull's performance is vastly improved all around.  I go real slow over those crests, if you do stuff the bow with the external chines it makes it worse going down!   



 

[THE 26 JETTYWOLF]

p I know this is an old post with an old topic but I thought I was the only one!
downswell performance not good.
add a hundred quart cooler full of groceries from charter customers and people sitting on the cooler and all that bow added weight, not good a lot of stuffing.  because I wanted to keep the whole Stern wide open for ballroom dancing type fishing.

even lost two customers one time I was barely on plane and about a 10 ft damn 100-ft tugboat wake came at us as we rounded a corner and when you stuff it hard enough everybody goes forward.
had to customers one side of the console one behind the console both get a little twerked when they went slamming forward never took them out again after taking them like 10 times they said screw this and they blame me. because when you're a fishing guide every single thing is your fault!

[clambo]

When you approach a large wave are you hitting it on an angle? If so control your throttle to avoid falling off the other side of the wave. If you take a wave at 90 Degrees and fall off the backside most boats will dig in the bow!