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(First trip I got the obligatory, virgin deflowering, &^*%# scratches out of the way..had to get out and drag it off of a bar.. ..(I don't mind the bottom scratches..heck, that's what it's built for...but the one on the side of the boat above the chine made me ill to see ) .but GVbest and I didn't find any fish.)

yep, i vividly remember the first scratches on my new driftboat. all that money and first time out big diggers on the bottom and some on the sides. enough to make a grown man cry. that was ten years ago. oh well time for a new one. i keep telling the wife this is my practice boat. someday she will let me have a new one or i am going to have to scuttle her.