First of all:
BADDAWG: That wouldn't happen to be a 17' Arima would it? See you in church Sunday?

Second, the boat:
A heavy 1977 18' fiberglass Wacanda tri-hull (large open area to move around) with '78 85 hp Johnson main and '83 9.9 hp electric start Johnson kicker.

Does 28 mph with 2 people aboard, according to handheld GPS. Can seat all 7 of the family and still have room for crabbing/fishing. Does the trick for now.

Have $2600 invested so far. Next on the list are two DR's (debating on manual vs. electric, Cannon vs. Scotty) and an upgrade from an old Eagle Supra Pro F.F. to a Garmin 160 or 260 Blue.

Next boats: 17'/18' aluminum for the rivers/lakes, 28'/32' fiberglass for the salt.

Being fairly inexperienced in salt fishing, I would like to find someone to go out with that is willing to show me some techniques and, demonstrate the pros/cons to the DR's listed above.

our boats, hmmm. Well I have a 16 lavro drift boat , 11 foot drift raft for low water and for those one man only days a small 8 foot raft with rowing frame. Used to have a 16' sled and will have a new sled shortly. A man never has enough boats.

The Driftabago!

i had a 16t starcraft with a 70 everude on it that was all open with a little side console to steer from . great boat for northen cal. mtn lakes or the delta. the week I decide to pull out the floors and replace them susan tells me where moving to seattle.
The weather here reguires a little more protection. i found a 18 ft star craft with a bad motor (ran but would not shift). closed bow full top , great boat for the area. $500.. I swapped the engines and sold the 16ft for $500.. If I show up at your yard sale ...run. the boat has been great. depth finder, two doenriggers lots of room to fish. i just love the damm thing. how do we post pics on this site

Mine is a 16'9" Lund Laker. It is set up for both mooching and downrigger fishing. It also serves as a great boat to fly fish out of for Sea-Run Cutts, Coho etc. I have a 50 Merc ELPTHO on it with a 1977 Envinrude 6 h.p. kicker. The kicker motor never stops - they built them good back them. I'll try to add a picture of it.

Chad [img]http://www.piscatorialpursuits.com/cgi-bin/pursuits/uploader.pl?action=view&epoch=1034702115[/img]

Let's try the picture one more time. [img]http://www.piscatorialpursuits.com/cgi-bin/pursuits/uploader.pl?action=view&epoch=1034702115[/img]

I'm with Erndog, mine is a 89' 19.5' Bayline Capri. It has a 2.3ltr Ford, so trolls for several days on a tank of gas. I upgraded to electronic ignition so no more changing points, purs like a kitten most of the time. I have a Cannon UniTroll manual rigger and a Cannon DigiTroll electric, both ebay scroungers, looking for another electric I can afford. It is a summertime family boat, pulls tubes and skiiers on Saturday, and kills fish on Sunday. I upgraded the Humminbird 100 to a 3D Paramount, love the three dimenisonal view. Looking to get a GPS soon, and a VHF radio. The top is rotted, so leaks but a little Deft has slowed it down a lot. The upholstery is getting pretty tattered, so don't care about blood and scales, they add character. Takes anything the Sound can dish out, have taken water over the bow with no problems, bow cover installed of course! Items to get include-kicker motor and/or trolling plate, GPS, VHF, new bigger top, HEAT. Yep, going to install a heating system for these cold ass winter BM trips some day!

I have a bathtup "NO BRAG JUST FACT"

Oh yeah my tub is equiped with a 2001 150hp merc optimax, 15hp electric start honda, Garmin 240 FF(my old lowrance X-15 for backup), Garmin 152 gps, 2 Penn downriggers(1 manual &1 electric) I also have an 11ft zodiac style infalatable hanging in my garage for use on local lakes Yes I too have been known to sit in my bathtub in the driveway

I run a 2001 Northwest Jet Northstar. 20' x 94" beam. Powerplant is a 351 PFI connected to a Amercian Turbine HD312 pump. Air ride seats and sleeper benches with storage under. Recessed bow with locker storage. Removable Cannon down riggers, fish on rod holders and many rocket launcher pole ane net holders. Ive run it in whitewater in in Idaho and the Columbia in 4 foot wind waves and never scared myeself too bad.

Darn, Crackered one again.

Man, there are some sweet rigs here. I want to post a picture of mine too, but I cant figure it out. Any help out there?

Hey. This is Matt. Are you using your digital or scanning? All you have to do is download the picture to the uploader and it should come up to where you type in your email adress. When you do that it will send an email to you and it will have a webpage that you copy. When you copy it, go to reply and down below the add reply box, where it says Options, there is a box you click on that says add picture. You click on that and you paste the webpage into the box that shows up and press enter. Then it should work. If it doesnt I'll come back on and see what happened.

No wonder your called the really big one..thought it was about a fish

Here is a picture of my dad's boat.

Lildrifter...
Check with your dad and see if he's got room for me over spring break! Thats about the only wednesday I can do. We can trade trips, I'll take you guys out flyfishing at Neah Bay this summer in exchange. BUT YOU BETTER NOT PUKE IN MY BOAT!!! I'll try and get a picture up, if not I might email it over to you and see if you can do it for me.. When are you wanting to build that rod? Just let me know and we'll get it done.

Later.

Two boats in the driveway. 1999 21 foot Northwest Jet Signature series. Loaded. Full enclosed with CB, CD, Bottomline, GPS, sleeper seats. Fish deck. 350 chevy with Hamilton 212 pump. 9.9 4 stroke Merc kicker. I use it for sturgeon fishing on the Snake and also on lakes. Also run on the Salmon in bigwater.

16 ft Alumaweld drift boat. Green, Dead head sticker on the back. Nice dent on left front.. 15 years of pure fun. Its the boat that catches the fish... If I could only have 1 toy and had to get ride of the rest its the one I could not live without

1st boat - 16ft Hyde Drift boat with pedastal seats both front and back / with optional bench, UHMW bottom, custom 3" raised rowers seat, counter balanced oars (verdict is still out on them) level front floor, electric bildge, forced air heating up front (great heating system with 3 speed fan built by a Forks area guide, for info on these heaters ya can drop me an e-mail for his #) and Mr Heater in the back, and flip on light. (Still miss my old Willies a bit, especially this month, with its bimini top)

2nd boat - 22ft Boulton sled with 200/175 Merc Sport Jet and 8 horse kicker. (Loaded)

Its yellow, fills with air, ands like 10 foot

Anyone else have a pretty seriously beat-up 16' Willie and a worn out pair of Sawyers? No heater, no top, no fish box, no net?

My other boat is a Hodgemans. They're really fun to float downstream in! Shipping water in the winter can get a bit on the chilly side, though!