Thread: Show us your boat

10 ft parkercaft.
Bottom worn thin from grandad dragging it up and down beaches....leaky rivets....etc 2hp then 8hp yam 2s on it.
Would plane me and the kids and a net when the kids were smaller.....probably plane a max payload of 200-210 kilos.
Unstable,low freeboard dubious boyancy if swamped but it could be carryed down a beach by me and a child it was light.

I welded up cracks and rivets etc but she had just done her time.....Still in service but as a row boat only.

Built my own pontoon dingy to replace it.....specialist low draft ultra stable flounder netting boat.....then they banned set nets.

So from 3 boats to just one now....the fryan 450 Ventura 40 hp Johnson 2s on that , its like a 440 but has a flat floor and a 4mm plate hull instead of a 3mm pressed hull.
For a little boat it rides really well but is a wet ride in a side on sea, I've welded on a flat bar strip to the chine in the forard 3rd which helps a lot.
Nice and quiet at ankor too.
40hp is just adequate really....or maybe I load it up too much or both.
60hp and stand up cuddy it would be a bloody great boat.