On Jul 6, 5:58 pm, wrote:
I have 3 Boston Whalers in my family ( two 17 foot Montauks and a 15
footer) and I'm building a dory because the Boston Whaler might be the
most over-rated boat in history. If your going fishing in a pond with
no waves a whaler is great. If the lake has waves a whaler will drive
you crazy.Forget about rowing a whaler. It's an awsome bayboat with a
shallow draft but I'll take a flat bottomed dory anyday over a whaler.
It's not a dry boat,you can't sail a whaler and it's terrible in
trailing seas. It's actually extremely one dimensional which is it is
good in shallow calm water and that's it.




Thanks for the input. I will take another look at the Montauks, but I
think it is more of a vee hull with some planing decks, not a tri-hull
like the sport 13, I could be wrong but I will look. I actually have a
fishing boat for bigger water and the sound, but this one would be for
small lakes, fishing, only waves are the ski boats. I would probably
drag the kids around with a tube, and take it to the mouth of the
river nights for crabbing. That's why I am interested in the square
nose as it is best to crab with two up front and it's easier in a
square than a pointy skiff. Another problem is for the small lakes I
fish in now, my big pointy skiff is a little heavy to load and unload.
I will go look at some boats, see if I can get a ride in a Whaler
Sport before I start to build. If anyone wants to see the lines I drew
up, send me an email and I will send over a file made with Carlson's
"Hulls" software. I can send the whole program if you wish. It is a
self contained, simple program that runs within it's own directory, no
installation necessary. Anyway, hear is won't run right on Vista, but
it runs fine for me on Vista. I am not affiliated with Carlson and
have no interest except I think it is a cool program. And it's free.