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[QUOTE]Fishysam - 1/24/2016  12:38 PM

Here is what I find most interesting to my style of fishing is how the boats draft is balanced while fishing. I am a big guy with lots of gear, my dad is small and my friends are big, now in any combination of me alone to me plus 3 the boats draft almost the same in the keel as the transom, 11" in all three of the glass boats I listed, Now the two aluminum boats draft less when in the cockpit than the glass boats do but while fishing I always end up with the keel being buried 14-15" with the transom drafting <6".  That is what makes them harder to control because they can literally spin on the keel rather than be pulled on a rail where I want it to go.

I want to add that the provbass is a really good layout but when I came down to it nitro boats sales plan and its nation wide standard pricing makes me sit content that I didn't over pay, I inquired on a 2010 predator a few years back and they said base with no options 50g because they would have to order it and they (as in an independent dealer) just threw me off completely witch is a hard bullet for a good company like Lind to have to deal with.[/QUOTE]

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Posted 1/24/2016 12:38 PM (#801023 - in reply to #800949)
Subject: Re: Lund Pro V Bass 1875 vs Triton Fishunter 186

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Aluminum boats are limited on how they can build them glass boats can be constructed with constant curvature to slice and deflect the spray back down. I have owned and operated glass boats being two warriors, one 177 dc a 2090 side console and a nitro z8 bass boat, I have ran 30ish mph in a true 2.5' wave and been dry till you make a wrong move then minor spray would cross over the aft of the boats. I know the Warriors drift perpendicular to the wind better than the z8 but the z8 doesn't need drift socks when the wind is blowing. I have ran 50mph in comfort in the 2090 in a true 2.5' wave dry ride and all straight into or with the wind I haven't had the chance in the z8 yet since it wasn't broke in on the madden voyage when I went playing in the rough stuff. The bass boat seams to pound a bit harder than the sharp warriors but, nothing compared to 19.5' alumAcraft or 18.5 crestliners. Have ran both of the boats on the trolling motor and they definitely spin around much more. Have ran 45 in a true 2.5' wave in the alumAcraft and that hurt. And wAs wet. I have seriously gotten wet on a day that there was only ripples in the crestliner even with the monstrous full windshield. My friends dads boat we got out before his Canada trip, needless to say my friend and I could not stop laughing at how ridiculous it was.

Here is what I find most interesting to my style of fishing is how the boats draft is balanced while fishing. I am a big guy with lots of gear, my dad is small and my friends are big, now in any combination of me alone to me plus 3 the boats draft almost the same in the keel as the transom, 11" in all three of the glass boats I listed, Now the two aluminum boats draft less when in the cockpit than the glass boats do but while fishing I always end up with the keel being buried 14-15" with the transom drafting <6". That is what makes them harder to control because they can literally spin on the keel rather than be pulled on a rail where I want it to go.

I want to add that the provbass is a really good layout but when I came down to it nitro boats sales plan and its nation wide standard pricing makes me sit content that I didn't over pay, I inquired on a 2010 predator a few years back and they said base with no options 50g because they would have to order it and they (as in an independent dealer) just threw me off completely witch is a hard bullet for a good company like Lind to have to deal with.