She nose dives pretty good. Beautiful boat but I will stick with my duck 30xl. I think you are underpowered. The bow digs in and doesn't want to raise from the lack of HP. Throw a couple 350's on there and call it the day. It really is a beautiful boat and thanks for the video

@@ReelPolack Wow... clueless comment

No way...... this boat is built for this. if a boat can't take green water we have a problem. Even my C-Dory takes on green water.

25knts= 5ftseas. 30knts=6ft seas. these are big waves bud. Great video glad to see ppl fishing when it's rough out.

You need to go out of the Oregon Inlet in NC on a bad day. It gets so bad that if your were an Atheist, you would automatically start praying and believing in God to answer your prayers to get you home safely. Not trying to take away from the PNW that is Narly also.

Wrong Mr. Mike.... those are much bigger than 3-5. The camera always does that. S

I don't know why, but camera flattens waves big time. Waves need to be well over 3-5 to stuff the bow on that boat, I'd think.

If you’re buying a new one, you can get higher gunnels in a package, and it raises the rear fish box. I have owned two kingfishers, both have been used and we took the boat to a fabricator and raised the gunnels and rear fish box. I thought the gunnels where too low. The rear fish box needs to be higher, if it stays low you’re back will be screaming.

I believe they can have twin 250’s, and have heard they can plane on a single 250. I have twin 200’s and love them.

@@dabuoys8703 ok, 200s are the way to go then😎

To be clear I can’t plane on a single 200, but still love the engines. I pack the boat up every year with 5 big guys, ice, food, and gear and have no problems.

We had the boat painted in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island at Urgel’s. Randy is the guy you want to talk to. We did use the Amazon flooring Eva foam flooring. We used masking tap to outline where the flooring would go. Then put a thick piece of Polly down to draw a template. We then took the Polly off and layed it on the flooring and cut it. Then applied to the deck. We cleaned the deck couple times then used windex for the last cleaning. We used the spray 3m to make sure it would stick even though the back had adhesive.

@@dabuoys8703 Thanks for the info! How many sheets did you order for the flooring? We heard the name of your boat being called on the radio in Nootka sound couple weeks ago from Hoot'n Any, my wife reminded me of that I recognized the name on your boat but couldn't remember where... lol

@@scarfface4 Ya that’s correct we where in Nootka. We sold our 2525 went to a 3025. But I loved the 2525 for fishing! We ordered 5 sheets, but only used 4. I would recommend 5 sheets because if something goes wrong apparently the colour doesn’t match up well. On the 2nd order, I will say the flooring is hard to keep clean. Dish soap works best to clean it up.

@@dabuoys8703 Great thanks for the info! Happy fishing! The 3025 is a sweet boat too!

Or for the anti slip flooring (ultra deck) you can get it everywhere at the KF’s dealer like Galleon marine, GA check, GMT

Just saw this, the boat came with twin 115 I bought it used. The options are twin 115 or a single 250. Lots of people like the twins for handling, I am one of those people. On this particular boat I think the single 250 would have been the better engine choice.

If one motor goes down, you still have one motor to get back to safety on. More expensive to buy/maintain 2 engines, though. If it's set up right, twin motors can be miracle workers getting into a tight dock space, versus the single motor. Twice the maintenance, though. At least get a kicker motor if you only get the one big engine. I think mileage tends to be better with a proper-sized SINGLE engine (vs. twin engines.) Good luck.

The 115 won’t get the boat on plane, it will do 8 knots pretty easy I’d say 12 knots max. I have a friend with a 2725 with twin 150’s and it will get on plane with a single 150. Don’t remember what the top speed was. No corrosion on my boat, it was only in the water for 2 months a year then pulled and out in dry storage through the winter. We repainted the boat as the clear coat was coming off and wanted it to look pretty again. The previous owner never waxed the boat. Haven’t had an issue with corrosion on the motors as the zincs are changed regularity. I think the early 2000’s 200-250 engines had corrosion issues.

@@dabuoys8703 That's good news on the corrosion, any idea how your friend's 2725 is on fuel compared to yours. I was under the impression KF's were supposed to be a fairly efficient hull, I would have guessed yours to be better than you mentioned.

shawn moore I think it’s about the same, for the same speed. 14 gph in and around that range doing 27 knots or around 12 to do 23 knots. The 3025 does about 14.8 gph doing 27 knots and it’s running twin 200 the new inline 4’s.