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My little brother sends me multimedia messages of fish he's catching. Its usually 5 lb ish bass, last week it was redfish. He thinks this thing is 24" and 10 lbs.

I finally sold the carvel so I was briefly without boat. My search ended today with a 92 model Mako 210 walkaround in excellent condition. Though it is not the beloved V-20 I'm sure I'll still have some questions yall can answer and I like the interesting people here so I'll still be hanging...

Why do nearly all fishing boats use outboard motors? What's wrong with an I/O? Seems to me the I/Os are much quieter and more efficient than most outboards made more than a few years ago. I'm imagining boat ownership without things like powerpacks and 6 carbs. My parents used to have an...

It started off as a fishing/drinking trip and then I bought a jet ski. These things are some work. I was still sore this morning from riding on Monday. It seems to have been well kept but the bottom is scared so I might have to have some of yall teach me about fiberglass repair and painting...

Figured yall would like this. http://houston.craigslist.org/boa/824396452.html

I know these are known as fuel hogs, but I think mine's burning way too much. It gets about 1.5 gallons/mile. Motor is a 97 200HP Evinrude OceanPro. Hard to believe it could burn that much. Is there any way it could be dumping it out the exhaust? I heard that if the carbs are dirty they can...

Now that I've been looking at V20s anything without much flare doesn't look good anymore. What are the notable improvements made throughout the years and in what years were they done? In particular I want to know when they switched to 25" transoms and when the deck was raised. I want the deck...

I've been thinking of picking up one of these for a while and decided to try to look up some information on them. Didn't expect to find such an active message board devoted to them. What makes these boats better than other old v-hulls? The one I've been thinking of getting is a center console...