250 Sportsman questions

jasoncooperpcola · #1 01-13-2008, 11:27 PM

I have an 86 250 Sportsman. Does anybody know where i can get the 2 decals for the side that say 250 Sportsman? Also has anybody ever got water in the very forward compartment under the water tank? The only way i can see that water got in there was over. And that means over a foot of water in the boat! How well does the livewell work in the Sportsman's? We're debating wether or not were gonna have to put our big livewell in it. How has everybody got their rod racks set up? We have about ten surf rods, eight drop rods and a couple bait rods that we need to make a rack for that will keep them out of the way yet handy. Don't suggest putting rod racks on the outside of the helm cause my dad WILL NOT do that. It has six rod holders on the splash board but if we get a fish on that decides to go around the boat we'll have to play "move all the rods to the other side, then move them back when the fish turns" We've done that in our V20 and its not fun. It has a bimini top and that what affects our rod rack placement the most. I tried to put a picture of our rod rack in our V20 on here but i'm not sure if it worked.

macojoe · #2 01-14-2008, 12:04 AM

Decals, ck ebay if not you might have to have them made?

Water, thats anyones guess??

Rod holder for 20 rods, bring less rods! Put the boat rods and bait rods in the cuddy and leave the surf rodshome, your on a boat

Did I say surf fish don't count!:p

jasoncooperpcola · #3 01-14-2008, 12:09 AM

When your boats name is "Reel Poor" going out with five rods looks bad. But not when you got them all, especially with two Penn 80's on the transom!

jasoncooperpcola · #4 01-14-2008, 12:16 AM

Here's a picture of the decals i need.

THEFERMANATOR · #5 01-14-2008, 12:38 AM

I know that I've worked on a couple of 248/250's, and the fiberglass seams under the water tank seem to be a trouble area with delamination. Water seems to come in from the anchor area and runs down in. As MJ said, watch Ebay for decals. As for the rod racks, we always just kept them on one of the quarter births when not in use.

jasoncooperpcola · #6 01-14-2008, 01:25 AM

Thanks, Ferm. We pulled the water tank out and are planning to use that area for our anchor rode storage. We are planning to put a hawse pipe for the rope to go through. Does anybody have any recomendations for an anchor roller. Wherever i mount the anchor roller its gonna have to be strong enough to break an anchor loose. I'll try to take a picture of the bow area of the 250 tomorrow. This is a picture of our curretn setup on our V20.