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Lund Fisherman 1800 info/advice
Crunchy:
That boat will work fine in the sound. The motor would work but not ideal depending on your budget. Get a kicker motor, two downriggers, decent sonar and you will be ready to rock. it will get expensive depending on how much other gear you have.
Skillet:
--- Quote from: kball4 on March 04, 2019, 10:10:50 AM ---I may be forced to repower if the motor is seized and it has a jet lower which I have no experience with.
I'm not a fan of open bow boats but hey it's free. What is a Spartan? Some kind of extended transom?
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A jet lower? Total mismatch for this hull. You'll probably want a prop lower. And now you've got me thinking your uncle tried to run rivers with it, so check out the bottom really well before you start.
Stein just meant don't build it too heavy on the stern. I'd suggest you rebuild to stock specs, those sterns are fine. If you build too light in the stern, you'll have some terrible handling characteristics at speed (and lower top speed) caused by the bow not lifting out as far as it is designed to.
Alchase:
Very popular on Hood Canal and the straights. Our neighbor on the Canal has had one for years. They are around 4k lbs dry weight, so they have some weight to them. When anchored, and tide goes out, you will not be able to drag it to water, trust me we tried, LOL.
Can catch side wind a bit, but I would not hesitate to take one out of Sekiu or Point No Point.
Just be smart and always keep an eye on the weather.
Stein:
Sorry, spartan as in simple without a bunch of extra stuff. I looked online at pictures of that model and most had full carpet and seats against the transom. If I was doing a rebuild, I would rip all that out and go with a simple marine vinyl type floor or glassed over wood, something that doesn't hold water, blood, sand, etc and can easily be hosed out.
When I was running a Smokercraft riveted boat, I had to take it in to get some cracks reinforced and welded, more due to the thinner metal than rivets. I never had any issue with the rivets, but you can't pound and flex thin aluminum over and over again and expect to not have some issues. The local welder fixed it up perfect for $150, so not a big issue.
It will easily handle the sound and nearshore straits on good weather days. The biggest concern I would have is if it didn't have a self bailing bow, looks like some do and some don't. I pretty much scoop water at least once or twice a season and that would be 50 gallons of water each time you need to get back out as quickly as possible. If you couldn't, your number of days on the water would just be much more limited.
With the transom, just be careful of following seas and boat wakes when setting pots and trolling (and bilge pumps). I always back into the wind and tide when setting shrimp pots so I don't have a huge scope on the line when putting out 400' of line. That makes for some exciting times when the weather is bad and transoms are low.
If I got one for free and the choice was to run that or sit on the beach and fish, I would absolutely get it running and take it out as much as I could. It isn't ideal, but the price was right and it will work plenty good to get you on a ton of opportunity.
kball4:
Cool guys thanks for the info. I am selling my house and moving into a 5th wheel while my house is being built so this project will be a good time consumer.
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