Cobalt 282: Fun, Freedom, Unforgetable
Bill Dulle knows that the 282 is an exciting boat. Check out this video, again from Village Marina.
Cobalt 282 In Port Saint Charles, MO
A big welcome to Bill Dulle of Port Saint Charles, MO. Just look at his gorgeous 2006 Cobalt 282 named Three Seas. This boat is beautiful and no doubt gets a lot of miles on the Mississippi River.
Bill keeps his boat at Lake Center Marina located on the Mississipi River in St. Charles, MO at mile marker 224.4. It is located off the Dardenne Slough, midway between the Winfield Dam and the Alton Dam, in the center of what is known as the “Alton Pool”. Bill says the 
Mississippi is a great boating area, and it is also close to the Illinois which joins downstream at Grafton, IL. A little further downstream (past the lock and dam) the Missouri River also flows in and then the Mississipi turns and runs past downtown Saint Louis.
Contact Bill Dulle at his email address…and Bill, please post some pictures or video of the interior and if you video some trips, we’ll get it posted on the site. Welcome aboard!
Welcome John O’Brien, Cobalt Enthusiast
Please welcome John O’Brien, our newest sign-up member of MyCobalt.net. John wrote me this note last week and with his permisson, I am posting it here. Welcome aboard John and we look forward to seeing pictures of your new 302!
Hi… I am a 63 yr old “Philadelpia lawyer” (wait! don’t delete me yet.) who has had a Cobalt 282 for the last four years. I have to admit to being a “boat junkie”. I owned my first boat at the age of 15 (an MFG 16′ w/ 40 HP Johnson). My latest new boat ( a March ’08 delivery of a 302- loaded) will be my 14th boat. I’ve been thru—not in chronological order—Sea Ray (42′), Albemarle(31′), Tiara (31′) ,Whaler ( 28′), Intrepid (31) and others. My “sickness” is fairly evident by now, correct? Irrespective of that record of ownership, I finally matured sufficiently enough to recognize and stick with a boat manufacturer that I truly enjoyed and which was the “right boat at the right time” for me, my family (6 total),my boating habits on Cape Cod—specifically, transiting from my marina in Falmouth to Woods Hole,or Buzzards Bay, or thru the Canal, very frequently to Martha’s Vineyard (a 9 nm trip from my marina) and fairly often to Nantucket with various visiting friends from Philly who, sadly, have only the “Jersey Shore” as a basis of comparison. The Cobalt 282 was fun, a great performer, BUT–as a bowrider– not the ideal boat to return from Nantucket in at twilight (it blows pretty hard out of the west/southwest around that time and “wet” is a consistent penance for having a borderline vessel for that trip.)
Thus it is that I have a 302 (again, a bowrider…they’re unbeatable party boats)…BUT … this model has a foot more beam, a 3′ increase in LOA, and a lot heavier hull plus twin 425 HP Merc counterprops; a newly designed Garmin hardtop on ss arch, a Garmin GPS/RADAR in dash w/ 24″Hi-Def Radome, ICOM VHF w DSC, remote spot & hailer on top, underwater stern light…if I missed anything, could you please let me know! Obviously this boat will hopefully be my last for quite awhile…maybe it’ll be part of my “estate” , ya’ never can tell !
Despite all these boats over all the years (as well as a long time “six-pack license” ) I still look forward to learning more about Cobalts from other owners regardless of the model they own. I also look forward to the sharing of info from other “Cobalters” which can only come from owning and driving a Cobalt.
John F. O’Brien, III
