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I've gotten several emails from my dealer offering to buy my ski boat. But I have no interest in selling at the moment. I've put about 400 hours on it above the 800 it had when I got it in April 2016 and I'm pretty sure I could easily sell it for 7-8k above what I paid for it in this market. ____________________ I Like Guns and stuff | |||
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This is very good info. Thank you very much for your input. Exactly the kind of stuff I need to be thinking about. "Someday I hope to be half the man my bird-dog thinks I am." looking forward to 4 years of TRUMP! | |||
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We have both, but I’m not sure they’re the kind you are thinking about. Both are utility boats with tiller motors. The first one, a 14’ Alumicraft F14 from the 1980s with a 1983 9.9HP Honda 4-stroke. We paid $1,500 for both and a trailer about 7 years ago. It’s enough for the inland lakes in northern Michigan, but it could really use more HP. The second is a 16’ Lund SSV-16 with a 30HP Suzuki we paid about $10,000 for including trailer new 2 years ago. We have this one on the Peace River in Florida and have taken it to the Keys twice (towed behind my wife’s vehicle, not by water ![]() It’s really hard to beat these simple boats. | |||
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If you're doing this, my recommendation would be to forego the kicker and get yourself a good trolling motor with separate batteries. It'll do everything a kicker will do and so much more. I put a Minnekota Ulterra on mine and I wouldn't trade it for anything. Spot Lock is a godsend. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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A kicker and a bow mount trolling motor are really used for two different things and both have their place. Position fishing/working a piece of structure - bow mount/spot lock hands down (I don't even carry an anchor anymore). Trolling cranks at 2+ mph (walleye) or 4+ mph (musky) my bow mount would kill the batteries in a VERY short time (I actually don't think it could get my rig up to 4mph in any kind of wind). A kicker shines in that role - I can also use it to help take the load off my bowmount in heavy wind/current when I'm working slow. It's also a second (albeit slower) IC engine with a quite large range if my main goes out (30 gallons of fuel is a lot of hours at 1gal/hour) Cons are more weight (although a modern 9.9 kicker is only about 20lbs heavier than 1 group 31 deep cycle), maintenance on another IC engine and of course additional cost. While the main could be used for trolling - it may not troll down as slow and I'd rather put hours on a $1500 engine than those same hours (idle rpms) on a $15000 engine. Bass and panfish guys don't run kickers for a reason - they simply don't fish that way. Walleye, salmon, multispecies guys typically do so they can troll all day at speeds between bowmount speed and main engine speeds. I reject your reality and substitute my own. --Adam Savage, MythBusters | |||
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I am a boat guy. A boat with an EFI Honda motor is a good choice. Go efi era on a four stroke. I would go to the bigger end of your spectrum. More usable room is nice. The motor splash well take up a lot of room on many boat. There are many brands. Hewescraft, G3. The custom road can be a good one on used boats. Wooldridge is an excellent boat. I use fiberglass now as I generally fish big water. Good luck. I won't say that boats can be a costly adventure. But there is nothing like being on the water for some of us. "Practice like you want to play in the game" | |||
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So I found this 2006 with a Yamaha 115 four stoke. I need to clean her up and go over everything. Suppose I'll need a bank loan so I can put gas in it to go fish. Looking forward to spring! Now I need to find a 5hp kicker or so.... ![]() "Someday I hope to be half the man my bird-dog thinks I am." looking forward to 4 years of TRUMP! | |||
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