On 9 Jun 2005 09:41:18 -0700, "Tim" wrote:

I'm very seriously thinking of getting a 14-16 foot bare necessity boat
with a 25-40 horse outboard to hit the river with. great fuel economy
and good for shallow depth. Plus if you hit something the engine bucks
up, amd you don't rip the lower end off your I/O!

Thanks for your post. I'm really getting tempted now.

I did a favor for a boat dealer last summer and this was the end
result. I got the boat, electric start 25 hp tiller Johnson and
trailer as part of the compensation.

I ran it for about a hour last fall when I picked it up - it went from
fall to winter in the space of a week last year, so I've been putting
some time on it this "spring".

I should have purchased one of these years ago. The entire
boat/engine/trailer package is worth about $4,700 US - the trolling
motor, X-85 (used) and batter adds another $250 and if you want to
count the handheld chartplotter for another $850, the whole package is
under $6,000.

And I'll say one thing for Princecraft - this is a quality boat-
almost in the Lund category.

I'm very impressed with it.

Later,

Tom