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Location: Minnesota: where it's tough to be a sportsfan! | we did allot of work back in the 80's with AL. boats to the point of even adding ballast tanks to control drifting. It was determined we could not come up with a safe marketable product. So the next thing we did was re-arrange the weight we had to work with inside the boat. We found in all of our experiments the hull style as mentioned above and then the side height of the boats make the differences. Generally speaking if your AL boat weighs in as much as a glass rig your AL is sunk and filled with water.
I have a bass style boat and my buddy has a 690. The higher sides on his rig makes it drift easier. I'd say budget is of first concern in looking at a rig. Nothing wrong with a super Aluminum boat, I still own those also. Horsepower wise a AL pushes allot cheaper than a glass rig does and tows cheaper too. |
