The dash has plenty happening on it but still with room for any electronics you might wish to add. Sitting, standing or perched on the bolster, an adjustable steering wheel ensures a comfortable stance for a driving position that gives good sightlines in all directions. A magnificent Bimini cantilevers forward from the massive Targa that also provides hand holds for standing passengers. USA-sourced boats generally have a naked bow, but this one now has a bowsprit backed up by a power windlass. The importer of Hydra-Sports boats, Chivers Marine, has rigged the 2300 with the items Western Australians want and Americans apparently do not. There is also enough stability to allow the rail to be packed with anglers with negligible list. Circulating bait tank, bait board, more rod holders on the Targa, deck wash, and high padded coamings. The moulding that houses the sink behind the driver’s seat has drawers, including a tackle drawer, hopper lockers open from the rear bulwarks, and if space runs out there is a further locker within the transom.įishability is not just a cosmetic feature of the 2300 all the wanted features are here. These will absorb skis, surf boards and scuba gear, and have dedicated racks for fishing rods. The starboard console holds as much as the average boat’s total, and the under deck bins even more. A clever piece of dual use allows the transom door to be removed and brought up here to form a table solves the common table storage problem. The bow cockpit has three seats, with insulated bins beneath them, and good legroom. To port there are back to back to back seats, providing an observer for skiing, and by pulling the right catch they slide out to form a daybed. Some boats overdo the seating, but the 2300’s layout leaves plenty of space in the main cockpit for fishing. There are individual seats for eight and they are all beauties – the driver’s is an armchair with lifting bolster. It is housed in the port console but is in no way cramped Tardis-like it easily accommodates a flushing toilet, a wash basin, a thick stack of magazines and plenty of deck space.
Still, you wouldn’t want to run a slalom course this way – the weight forward causes the bow to dig if you turn too sharply with the tabs down.One of the keys to versatility is that toilet: there are a great many people who will not go afloat without one, and this leaves the usual chemical job in the shade. When you encounter rough water, a touch of the standard tabs, which are tucked away in transom pockets, drops the sharp bow and softens the ride.
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At full speed, the feeling is almost like running a bass boat on a pad, with a light and responsive steering wheel. The bow lifts nicely, particularly as you trim the engines at higher rpm. I didn’t find that to be the case at all with the 2600 Vector. Converting a center-console hull to a walkaround often meets with limited success the added weight forward created by the cabin (about 1,700 pounds here) can make these combinations bow heavy. The hull, a 23-degree deep-V with slightly reversed chines, is straight off the 2596 center console. Decks and hatches are composed of fiberglass and foam the walking surfaces don’t flex. Like all Hydra-Sports, the 2600 Vector has a completely wood-free structure, including molded fiberglass stringers and a high-density foam/woven roving sandwich forming the transom. Our test boat was equipped with OMC’s 200-hp Ficht Evinrudes, the ideal package, delivering excellent fuel economy (2.6 mpg at 3500 rpm) as well as impressive performance all the way from the holeshot to the top end. It also delivers on comfort, with a large cabin boasting 6’4″ of headroom, a full head, shower, galley, and a second bunk tucked under the helm station. The boat offers impressive performance: It topped out at 53.5 mph in our runs with a crew of four and full fuel. The Hydra-Sports 2600 Vector may be one compromise boat that doesn’t…well…compromise.
There are skippers who insist on being first at the buoy come sunrise, and they’re often saddled with a crew that wants to sleep on the way out.
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