Originally Posted by RiverRider
When my wife and I married, we decided to get a boat for fishing. What I had in mind was a 16-foot aluminum boat with a 9.9 horse outboard that we could get into tight places and catch fish. We ended up with this:

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It's a 1990 Sea Ray 180 Bowrider with a Mercury 135 horse. It'll run 50 mph with both of us in it, trimmed just so. I think we've had it for over 16 years and all I've ever had to do to it is change the impeller a number of times, replace a switchbox (due to my own negligence), thermostats, and stuff like that. I DID have to do the deck a couple of times, but the second time it has held up for the last twelve years just fine.

It doesn't do anything particularly well, but it will do a passable job of anything we care to do with it. We used to pull a tube with it, but these days we just fish.



That's a great all around family boat. cool

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