I would love to see a section in here were folks could post a few pics of their boats.
Mostly interested in the ones 16’ and under but all reports would be a blast to read.
Even if they are just links to are own photo shares. I understand that this could lead to huge storage amounts and bandwidth if hosted from this site. $$$
I see all the cool fish oics with the boats in the back ground and always want to know more about the boats.
What Model? What Year? Would you buy that brand again? Where do you fish with it? What do you not like about it?

Mostly interested in the ones 16’ and under but all reports would be a blast to read.

Here is a pic of my 15 foot Smokercraft Tracer (that's Dangerous Dave holding the little BlackMouth).


It's a 2002 powered by a 2002 25HP Yami 4 stroke, power tilt, hummingbird FF and Big Jon Electric downriggers. Love the boat because it'll fish the sound, the Columbia, the Cowlitz and lakes. Sometimes it wouldbe nice to have a little bigger boat when it's rough, but Dangerous Dave has a 21ft Trophy and Rick68 has 21 ft Bayliner so it all works out good. They usually take me in their boats in the sound, we use my boat to fish the columbia or Cow or even the sound when their boats are in for maintenance. So for our little group of Port Orchard anglers, it all works out pretty well, so yes I'd buy the boat again./

Plus it's nice having a smaller boat when you go out fishing by yourself. Launch and recovery is a piece of cake!

I have a 10 foot livingston type boat. It is powered by a 1978-82 4 horse johnson. I have been to the san juans, sekiu, deception pass, lakes, and i floated the icicle river. This boat has gotten me alot of fish and i love it. Only wish i had a bigger boat with more horse power. No pictures at the moment but will try to post some later on.

You don't say what type of boat, so here's my drifter. My first drifter, it's a 2003 Diamondback (but maybe you had that figured out ), it's been on the Sky twice, and no blood in it yet. Some humpy slime on the sides, though.

As far as liking it I've never had a drifter before so I can't compare it to anything else, but I'm finding it preferable to watching them go by!

Here is my 16 foot 2003 Smokercraft Lodge SS, basically the same thing UM has but a tiller model without the windshield or steering. This thing is set up to fish hard (I put in 100 trips a year or so), with a 25 4 stroke Yami, Penn downriggers, Humminbird dual transducer depth sounder with sidescan, Garmin Map 76 GPS, two 6 gallon tanks, 128 quart cooler, bow anchor release, 4 rod holders plus net holder, and dry storage for 4 sets of raingear, 5 life jackets, 200 feet of anchor line and anchor, fish cleaner, spare prop, tools, spare downrigger balls, and deep cycle battery (all this heavy stuff is in the bow to keep the nose down). I also have plug in running lights and a bilge pump on it. My setup is a bit unusual as I have a manual start motor with no charging system - to charge the battery I plug it into the towing vehicle occasionally through the lighter plug and it charges it up while I drive! The Yami also never takes more than 2 pulls to start, so why bother with a starter? And I use manual downriggers - nobody wants them anymore so you can get used ones cheap and I for one don't mind the exercise. All my battery does is run the depth sounder and the lights and bilge occasionally. The best thing about having a minimal electrical system is that I have no voltage problems to correct with a black box.

I wish it had a 40 on it at times, but the 25 will get it up to 24 mph and troll down to 1 mph, less with a bucket hung off the back. It is almost 7 feet wide and all floor space, so I can fish 4 comfortably. This boat is also light enough to tow easily with a minivan and launch easily just about anywhere. My trailer also has UHMW bunks so it launches and loads real easily. Like UM said, these are not an ocean boat, but work real well in most areas of the Sound and on the Columbia. I can even run the thing on tilt with a prop saver on it down to Blue Creek and back in 5000 or more cfs.

This is my third Smokercraft in 4 years, I started with an Alaskan Lite, which developed hull leaks in a couple years of use, so I traded it in for a regular Alaskan, which also leaked after about a year of hard fishing. Smokercraft is real good about standing behind their boats and so they credited me full retail on a trade in for the Lodge, which is heavier aluminum than the Alaskan and so far has held up real well. It has a lifetime hull warranty so if I have problems on down the line I just get a new one. I got a real deal on my original purchase and through trading up for a larger boat I have about $3500 in the boat and trailer, even though the Lodge retails for $5995 and the trailer is over a grand. I got the Yami in Canada when the exchange rate was 52 cents to the Canadian dollar, and saved $800 over the best price I could get down here. The motor I've had for 3 years and all I've done to it is change the oil and fluids and rinse it out after each saltwater use. The Yami comes with a hose fitting that make rinsing a snap.

There are two real advantages of a light boat. The first is in it's ease of use, I can launch it easily by myself, fish for an hour or two at the perfect tide as it is so easy to deal with, and don't feel obligated to stick it out on a tough day or stay in an unproductive area because it was such a hassle to get the boat there and launched, and can use unimproved boat launches that most boats can't handle. I hardly have to get my trailer axle wet it loads so easily. The second advantage is fuel economy - I get 16 hours or more of running and fishing on 6 gallons of gas!

As hard as I fish I sometimes wish for an 18 foot Silverstreak with a 3/16" welded 18 degree deadrise hull and a Yami 115 on it with a Yami 8 horse high thrust trolling motor, but I already catch way more fish than is polite to talk about with this rig, so I guess it's good enough for now.

Spawnout,
I see you got the new boat you were talking about last year. I just sold my SC Alaskan to my brother and bought a 17' Alumaweld Super Vee. I put a 50HP Yamaha on the back and have been very happy with the new boat. We just got back from Sekiu,and it will run at 29MPH with 3 guys and all our gear.

Does having the transducer mounted where it is on your boat cause any interference on the screen of the FF from the motor? When I mounted my transducer,they warned about not mounting the transducer closer than 12" from the motor.

I wouldn't mind having any of the boats pictured so far in this thread. I've got a 10' Xstream that I use on most of the S rivers. My only complaint is that it's too heavy for one person to carry.

Hey HPB, congrats on your new boat, Alumawelds are real nice - I looked at one of those but it would have been more money, more weight, a bigger motor, and a bigger tow vehicle .

Actually, my boat is wider than it looks and the transducer is over 2 feet from the motor. It works just fine, as does the speedometer which is about 6 inches closer to the motor - it is accurate to with 1/2 mph compared to my GPS. I put the transducer mouting plate there because that's the only place I could get access to through-bolt and seal it - any closer to the edge of the boat and the lower part of the transom is covered up with flooring and sprayfoam insulation.

How'd you do at Sekiu? I had a day in August where I took 7 of my relatives out in 2 shifts - had 16 fish boat limit before 8 with one group and 16 more after breakfast and before noon with the other. Kind of felt like a commercial fishermen

cool reports!
I have a 2002 13' Boston Whaler with a Merc 2 stroke 40 HP. I have a removable mount 40 Lb Minn kota for the bow and Scotty down riggers. It is a snap to launch by myself. I use it in lakes like Goodwin, Samamish, Pot holes & Moses lake and even smaller lakes I have had it in the salt off of Ship wreck and in Kayak point. It is a fine boat in rough water but it can beat the heck out of your back at speed. Other times I have been in heavy wind and was glad as hell to be in a whaler. It is a pricey boat but yes I would do it again. No boat can do everything great but this one does a lot well.