[jgreen]

No sweat, good luck gremlin killing.

[MAJIC]

To John Miller - we fish quite a bit out our 252Z - in Lake Winnipesaukee for small and large mouth bass and occassionally for lakers and landlocked. It's a great stable platform. I bought a couple of bolt on rod holders that I put on the rear grab rail. Biggest problem: you can't troll - at idle we're moving around 4 MPH so we have to put a bucket over to slow us down. AND with the deeper hull, can't get into real skinny water easily.

I do not have an electric motor up front and given how the Mariah is setup it would be relatively easy to do - put the battery under the front seat but it would be hard to run a wire back to the motor for charging. I am contemplating building building a lightweight platform to stick over the front seats to better protect them and give more fishing more.

Great boats. Certainly hard to replace.

[Fishing56]

Originally Posted by John Miller

My main concern right now is my power stern light. Something keeps killing the battery after it sits for a few weeks. There has been at least 3 times when I have the boat sitting in my driveway that I will go out in the morning to go to work and the stern light will be up as far is it can go under the cover with the light on. This without the key being on or the light switch being on. I am thinking I have a bad switch on the dash and that it might be pretty hard to find a new one. I will have to do a search, because I am sure I have seen a thread on the dash switches and what to use to replace them.

I love that red Mariah. I was in the market for my first Mariah in 1996. The show room had that boat featured in the lobby. I was in love, had all the bells and wistles etc. Just wouldn't fit in my garage, and wifey would not let me spend that much! So I settled for a 180 Shabah, still not a bad choice. Still my current boat and love it. Still gets many compliments as it is garage kept.

Love my boat, have no plans on replaceing anytime soon.

Fishing56

[rusty]

Sunny and 75 here in S.E. Ga. and I just brought the Mariah out of the barn,checked everything out,fired her up-can't wait to hit the water.As I did this I thought" they just don't make em' like this anymore".After a 14 year layoff from boating,and previously having a chris craft ltd. I thought what would I replace it with.I found out about Mariahs about 3 years ago and found one about 4 hours away 6 months later,it was immaculent,I bought it,the rest is history.I am looking forward to my third season.Hope everyone has a great summer!