28' aj

[CMR]

I believe AJs are built in Winter Harbor... any experiece thoughts with AJ28s?

Classified - 4267399 | Uncle Henry's

 

[captainlarry84]

Fit & finish is excellent. Very high tech cored construction. Light in weigh and a very easy boat to push. 250 HP will give you a solid 18 knots at cruise. They will handle diesel power up to 370 HP for excellent speed performance. The bow has very fine entry and the propeller aperture can handle a very large wheel. I give the AJ a 9.5 out of 10 on my review scale.

 

[Brooksie]

Captinlarry is correct on all points AJ is a great boat, a friend owned one and it took less power to do the same job as the Dyer 29 I ran. Maybe not quite as good a sea boat as the Dyer but dryer and less rolly. I love AJ's website all good speed, power/construction info.

 

[Eslang]

Fit & finish is excellent. Very high tech cored construction. Light in weigh and a very easy boat to push. 250 HP will give you a solid 18 knots at cruise. They will handle diesel power up to 370 HP for excellent speed performance. The bow has very fine entry and the propeller aperture can handle a very large wheel. I give the AJ a 9.5 out of 10 on my review scale.

24" wheel max

 

[Bill]

Boat was for sale last year.. I think they dropped a new engine in it after it sold.. Love that boat

 

[CMR]

Interesting... found a few threads on them. Crazy to think of going 50MPH on Frenchman's bay.

I'll likely ask for more pics...$32K seems like short money (relatively).

 

[Bill]

Fit & finish is excellent. Very high tech cored construction. Light in weigh and a very easy boat to push. 250 HP will give you a solid 18 knots at cruise. They will handle diesel power up to 370 HP for excellent speed performance. The bow has very fine entry and the propeller aperture can handle a very large wheel. I give the AJ a 9.5 out of 10 on my review scale.

Larry can you elaborate on the high tech ?

 

[Eslang]

The whole boat is foam core construction. Alan has molds for all the components. The end result is a high end finish, light, strong lobster yacht boat. He does a really nice job. Hard chine molded lift rails. I had one with a 250 yanmar and it did an honest 18 kt cruise at 3000 rpm at 5 GPH

 

[blackdiamond296]

The lobster boat layout on that one makes me think it has the one level deck with the 4" motor box. Not a bad thing necessarily, but not the step up floor that make the AJ 28 so unique in this size range.

...love ours after this first season, only thing I really want to do at this point is build lee boards for the cockpit- the gunnels are noticeably lower than on a Fortier.