2009 Everglades 243 Center Console

2009 Everglades 243 CC | Mercury Verado 300 XXL

This 2009 Everglades 243 CC has a single 2008 Mercury Verado 300 XXL with just over 912 hours. That is the maximum horsepower rating for the hull. The hull is blue with a light blue boot stripe, and the hardtop is finished in light blue underneath.

Bob Dougherty designed the 243 to run like a bay boat and an offshore boat at once. Draft is 16" at the hull, and the 19° deadrise and sharp entry handle a chop on the run out. Everglades builds the hull with its RAMCAP process: foam-cored, bonded as one part, and unsinkable.

She is set up for one person to run comfortably. The owner added SeaStar power-assist hydraulic steering and a Garmin autopilot. With the Verado's digital throttle and shift, that keeps the effort at the wheel light when docking, in a following sea or on a long run. A Power-Pole, worked from a switch at the helm, holds her in shallow water without dropping a hook.

The two aft seats fold down flush and turn the stern into an open casting deck. The bow seating does the same job forward. The low rails and pop-up cleats keep lines and nets clear.

The electronics are an all-Garmin package: a GPSMAP multifunction display, a VHF with DSC and the autopilot, with a Fusion stereo on the same network.

• Stainless steering wheel with SeaStar power-assist hydraulic steering
• Garmin multifunction display flush-mounted in the console
• Mercury SmartCraft gauges
• Ritchie compass
• Power-Pole up/down switch
• Lectrotab trim tab switches
• Lighted rocker switch panel with breakers: LED lights, aft bilge, power ports, horn, raw water washdown, forward fishbox, freshwater washdown, accessory
• 12V power ports
• Storage compartment in the console face
• Stainless cup holders on both sides
• Acrylic windshield

• Mercury Verado 300 XXL, 2008, supercharged inline six
• 912 hours as shown on the helm gauge
• Mercury digital throttle and shift, with push-button start/stop and DOCK / TRANSFER / THROTTLE ONLY modes
• Mercury SmartCraft tachometer and speedometer with digital readouts
• Stainless steel propeller

• SeaStar Power Assist steering by Dometic (PA1200-2)
• Garmin autopilot with a control head in the overhead electronics box
• Power-Pole shallow-water anchor with a CM2 hydraulic pump and a helm switch 
• Fusion Apollo-series stereo, SiriusXM-ready, with Wi-Fi
• Underwater lighting
• Hardtop flood lighting
• Lectrotab trim tabs with rocker control at the helm

• Garmin multifunction display with GPS/chartplotter 
• Garmin VHF radio with DSC, mounted overhead
• Garmin autopilot control head, mounted overhead
• Fusion stereo, SiriusXM-ready, with Wi-Fi, mounted overhead 
• Garmin remote unit, mounted overhead
• VHF antenna on the hardtop

• Fiberglass hardtop with a light blue underside, on a powder-coated frame
• Overhead electronics box with a hinged, latching cover
• Rocket-launcher rod holders across the aft edge of the hardtop
• Overhead switch panel for cockpit, flood and underwater lights
• Dome light
• Spreader/flood lights
• Drop curtain

• Bow seating with storage underneath; it doubles as the forward casting platform
• Forward cooler seat in front of the console
• 75-gal in-deck fishbox forward with a macerator pump
• Lockable rod lockers to port and starboard forward
• Wide side decks so you can walk forward around the console
• Leaning post with vertical rod holders
• Lighted livewell in the transom 
• Two separate aft seats, port and starboard, either side of the livewell. Both flip up for seating and fold down flush to make a large aft casting deck for cast-netting bait.
• Raw water and freshwater washdown
• Flush-mount gunwale rod holders and a tackle unit
• Low-profile powder-coated rails and pop-up cleats, kept clear for lines and nets

• RAMCAP foam-filled hull and deck, built as one unit
• Self-bailing cockpit
• Kept on a boat lift with Console Cover

• LOA: 24'3"
• Beam: 8'2"
• Draft: 16" (hull)
• Deadrise: 19° aft
• Dry weight: approximately 3,100 lbs
• Fuel: 80 gal
• Fresh water: 9 gal
• Maximum horsepower: 300
• Hull: modified-V, RAMCAP foam-filled construction

The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.