"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:23:31 -0400, jamesgangnc penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

I vote for the cuddy, too. After my son froze my butt off on a fishing
trip years ago, I gladly traded the bowrider for the cuddy. Now, in
January, I have a place to sip coffee and warm up before I go to the
back and do some more fishing.

|Small cuddies are worthless as tits on a boar hog in my opinion. They
just
|end up being big storage areas.

How small is small? And you'll have the same problem with the
bowrider.... only the stuff will just roll and blow around.

|No one wants to ride in there so you're
|just sacrificing passenger space that you would have had with an open
bow.

You are not *always* underway. My wife likes the privacy issue and,
being very fair, appreciates having somewhere out of the sun. She'll
also go below to read sometimes while we're anchored and I'm fishing.

|If you want to entertain that means other couples. Everyone will want to
|sit outside when the boat is moving.

That tends to be true.

|When the boat is sitting still the
|cuddy is too hot to stay in anyway.

It sure can where we live, but this guy is going to be in a colder
climate.

|\My experience is that everyone is in a bathing
|suit and just jumps in the lake to pee.

Yeah, right. Maybe 6 months out of the year, here, but the OP boats in
Lake Erie. That oughta make those puppies perky even if Mom is 85
years old....



Up here the water temp struggles to reach 60 until August...and then it
peaks around 62 or so...unless you're in shallow water, right on a sandy
beach.