


Albemarle-a company celebrating 40 years of boat building-has several express models that effectively bridge the gap between center consoles and convertibles. Many serious anglers eventually decide to graduate from a center console to a heavier, more protected express or flybridge convertible, especially as they get older or involve their families on their offshore trips. If you’re trying to decide between a center console and something beefier, you need to ask yourself a question: Is your fishing style to “run and gun” at high speed or are you more interested in keeping your bones from rattling during a long day of fishing? If you’re leaning towards sea-keeping ability over top speed, then the rest of this article is for you. Meanwhile, a lot of builders have been focusing on the more luxury-minded consumer over the angling family.īut what if you don’t want a mega center console or an express fisherman with 2,400 lbs of outboards in the way while you’re trying to land your fish? Fewer and fewer boat builders offer such a solution.

So much so, Yamaha is having trouble keeping up with the demand. Unless you’ve been boating under a rock, you know everyone and their uncle have been hanging more and more outboards on larger boats than ever before. It used to be that you could easily find a simple, inboard-powered fishing boat starting at 24 feet on up.
