Roughneck boats ?

[D_morg]

Just wondering if anyone on the site has one. I was at Cables yesterday looking at them,and wondering how they wood do in the water.They're not the the best looking boat ,but they sure are roomy. I mostly fish lakes and small rivers.I'm wanting to know if it will do ok in bigger water? Thanks for any input.

[h2ofowlr]

They are a well built boat for the money.  They use a lot of them up in Alaska for fishing the rivers.  We did have to have additional brackets welded into our as we took a hard beating several time in the lower Columbia river and beat up the bottom some.  Overall they are a good boat.
I almost purchased a new one several years back then picked up a Sea Ark.  After checking everywhere in Washington and Oregon for them, I found they were best priced at the White Elephant in Spokane.

[cohoho]

What ever you do don't buy the 1655 tunnel rough neck and expect decent or even half hearty performace out of it, crappy design rides stern low really bad. The tunnels they put suck bad, did a bunch of research and they put the tunnels for props to utilize in swamp.  Their tunnel is too deep, to square and doesn't push the water to the pump at all.  Much better Jon boats out there for sure..  Ever one that I knew that had a rough neck couldn't wait to get rid of it.    This is for the 1655 only, the 1760 and the 1860 seems like decent boats, but the transom is also plywood with a real thin tin over top....    Welds are crappy also.  And the hull is split down the middle and weld together versus a formed hull.  Mass production boats..