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Few more months until she gets wet

Dang, what a beautiful vessel. Crazy nice.

20 ft sprint boat, narrow beam 48”, 130 hp Etec jet unit, tunnel hull it’s a flat bottom boat so when you catch someone else’s wake can be a bit of a bucking bronco. Sometimes to get to our 1st remote cabin ive had to travel in 4” of water so it serves those needs well. Also you can go as slow as 18-21 mph & still be on step depending upon load. That’s a real advantage to traveling unfamiliar rivers. Still have had to pound out dents in the bottom.

Also a 16 ft cataraft

I’d like to have two more boats but probably will settle for one.

Absolutely love being on the water sans ocean. We’ve friends w ocean boats for that.

Only regret for me on my boat is that I didn’t buy one 10 years earlier. And living on a hillside I run out of flat ground to store stuff. Too many toys ? Blasphemy. We love to play on the snow & in the summer on snow melt.

And I kept some of that advice in mind.

Bought this one yesterday. Or I should say came to an agreement on it, and now need time to zoom up to the twin cities and pick it up...

Indeed it is.

My boat is made of recycled beer cans......

Troll much, do ya?

Yes Rocky that boat is set up for trolling & jigging. Notice the Bow mount electric, it has spot lock.... beats trying to anchor in deep water.

This one is for rowing.....

And this one is for casting..... boats are like rifles.... you need a different one for each application..

Very nice!

Just getting ready to repower with Suzuki. How do you like the 9.9?

Lower river,
The 9.9 is electronic fuel injection, I have it wired with a troll master speed control . I am not as happy with as I thought I would be, seems to surge at trolling speed, maybe I simply need to work the bugs out of the troll master, I had the dealer check it out and he said it was fine... of course

Boy, some of you guys have really nice boats. My little fishing boat is a 16' Alumaweld with a 40 hp Merc. Nothing fancy

I keep a 15' johnboat up at the family cabin on a small lake. Powered by a cheapo electric trolling motor which beats fishing out of an oar paddled canoe.

Love these boats

Those are great boats.

Hey there ya go! You finally got one! Where are you headed to pick it up?

I love that. Is the cabin big enough to sleep in?

just north of Minneapolis

I learned long ago that it is much cheaper to have a buddy with a boat or two, and pay gas when I go along. YMMV

Yes , and I have a diesel heater, last year I hunted out of it and got my antelope, not everyone can say they use their boat for antelope hunting......