Question Re ride quality

[AdamK195S]

Hello, I've just purchased a 2022 195s that'll be using on the northeastern ICW and Larger lakes, home waters will be the South Jersey coast. I've read some articles and reviews re ride quality but need some honest feed back. With the 18 degree deadrise will it be difficult to keep from pounding on the median days or do i need to pick perfect days only? I grew up boating and owned my own boats for close to 30 years so I have reasonable knowledge handling boats in less then desirable conditions. Any feedback welcome. Cheers, Adam

 

[212s]

Hello, I've just purchased a 2022 195s that'll be using on the northeastern ICW and Larger lakes, home waters will be the South Jersey coast. I've read some articles and reviews re ride quality but need some honest feed back. With the 18 degree deadrise will it be difficult to keep from pounding on the median days or do i need to pick perfect days only? I grew up boating and owned my own boats for close to 30 years so I have reasonable knowledge handling boats in less then desirable conditions. Any feedback welcome. Cheers, Adam

Depends on your definition of comfort. I've seen guys ripping across small chop in bass boats and it looks like their heads are about to pop off, and they don't seem to mind. Your 195s will ride better than that. I don't mind some chop, but my wife hates it, although she likes the ride of our boat much better than our older boats. This one has a 20 degree deadrise compared to 8 degree on our last boat - go-kart to cadillac difference for us. If the wind picks up and it gets choppy, we just slow down to 12-13mph which pushes the bow up to plow through the waves...nice smooth ride. Our old boat would bounce and slap making for a poor ride at anything above idle.

Enjoy the new boat!

PS - might want to move this to the 19ft sub-forum for more visibility.