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Smoke Show
Joined: 05 Oct 2011
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Location: Fort Nelson, BC
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 Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:11 am Post subject: Looking at first boat for the fort Nelson region |
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I'm not a hunter unfortunely so I'm looking for a nice "lake style" river boat. Bare with me here...
I found a sabre e6 with a 350fi and a 309 that I really like. Trouble is its a 12 degree. I understand tuchodi only in the spring. But can I use it without trouble elsewhere? Also for when I take it south to the Shuswap what can I expect as a top speed on the lake?
Or should I scap this idea and start looking at other options?
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REPO
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:58 am Post subject: |
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| If this is your first river boat, you probably don't want to be taking a 12 degree up the Tuchodi. I think you really need to decide what boating you want to do. A boat that will preform well on a lake, will not be very good on shallow rivers. |
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summersled
Joined: 18 Sep 2011
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Location: Sexsmith, AB
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 12:25 pm Post subject: |
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| I was in the same boat (hahaha) last year when I bought my first boat. I don't hunter either and thought the E6 was the boat for me cause it was pretty too look at and would handle the rivers and the lakes. Repo is right, buy a boat for what you are gonna use it for and you live where there is some pretty boney water. They pretty much invented tough 8 deg boats up there. Muskwa, Nahhani, Tuchodi Specials... I sold my E6 this spring for a couple reasons, it was too small inside to carry lots of people and gear, mine used lots of water (mine was a 16 deg step tec) unless you were going really fast which isn't cool with the wife and kids(a 12 deg delta pad would use a lot less), we couldn't camp in it, and after a season of owing my own river boat, the only lake boating I would do would be on a pontoon or house boat, nothing compares to river boating. If you do lots of water sports than the E6 might be the boat for you but its still not a lake boat. I just brought home a used outlaw muskwa (8 degree) and can't wait, lots of room, it can handle any river you throw at it and thats worth the piece of mind...plus you could still drag the kids around at the lake once and a while or drag it behind a house boat...I don't know if anyone buys the right river boat the first time, I didn't cause I didn't do enough home work...just my 2 cents. Good luck |
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Smoke Show
Joined: 05 Oct 2011
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Location: Fort Nelson, BC
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the input guys
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