Al Steiger and his design team have recently introduced a new purpose-built layout for their 23 and 25-foot center consoles, the Chatham series. Featuring a unique three-sided “doghouse” helm station, this variation on the classic center console concept offers added weather protection and will appeal to hardcore coastal anglers for bay, inlet, inshore and offshore duty. This layout was originally designed for the dealers up north in the Cape Cod area, but its popularity has gradually found its way back to the land of its birth on Long Island and other spots like the Jersey shore, the Chesapeake and south Florida. If you are a center console fan but want to maximize your fishing experience, the Steiger 23 and 25 Chatham will hit all of your fishing feature hot buttons. The Chatham layout offers full 360 degrees of unencumbered fishability to the max! One of the outstanding features of all Steiger boats and their local boat builder mindset is their modular flexibility to install exactly what you want, exactly where you want it. You can add or delete features to suite your particular coastal sport fishing needs.
The 23 Chatham features a classic notched wide open outboard transom that supports a single XXL 30-inch shaft outboard and she measures 23-feet LOA with an 8-1/2-foot beam, tipping the scales at a beefy 4,600 pounds. A Yamaha F250 V6 is standard power, but prospective owners can upgrade to the popular F300 for max performance. The 23 Chatham’s generous 124-gallon fuel tank will take her a long way between fill-ups and offers over 230 miles of range. Standard features on this trailerable sportfisher include a six-pack of pop-up stainless steel cleats; under gunwale LED cockpit lighting; compass; (3) S/S cupholders; dual batteries and switch; leaning post with four rocket launchers and tackle storage cabinet; porta-pottie; raw water washdown; recessed trim tabs; five-rod overhead rocket launcher in the fiberglass T-Top; (4) gunwale mount rodholders; under-gunwale rod racks port and starboard with sinker trays; a two-tone cockpit sole (tan or gray); plus a boarding step box.
The larger 255 Chatham offers even more fisharound space compared to her sibling with a long list of standard and optional features. The added outboard bracket gives this big sister of the fleet some added length to bridge short choppy seas, creating a solid feel when underway, rocking a 21-degree aft deadrise deep-vee running bottom, a respectable 5,500-pound displacement, with plenty of wide open cockpit area both fore and aft. The 255 is equipped with a long-range 150-gallon marine grade aluminum fuel tank for realistic bluewater range. Other standards include an in-floor fish box; full fiberglass swim platform and ladder; a deluxe leaning post with built-in tackle center; a porta-pottie head; raw water washdown; a total of eight gunnel-mount rodholders; horizontal rod racks under each covering board port and starboard with built-in polymer sinker trays; a model 450 SeaKeeper Ride boat leveling system; spreader and cockpit courtesy lights; a convenient 40-gallon transom live well that doubles as a fishbox; two tone deck (your choice of tan or gray); plus a step box for easy coming and going from dockside. Some notable options on the Steiger 255 Chatham are a battery charger; bow anchor hatch; bow-to-stern bolsters; grab rails; a bow thruster; drop-down transom bench seat; casting platform in the bow; coffin box cooler and more. Standard power on the 255 Chatham is a single Yamaha F300, but you can upgrade this to either a single F350 or twin F150s.
