What was your 1st boat, ever?

[Vollmer]

Sitting here, going through my tackle, and I started thinking about my very first boat. It was a 1950’s something Glastron, closed bow, no windshield, and a transom that was bolted together with a couple 3’ sticks of all-thread and a 2x6. Haha
The starter was shot, and in my youth, I decided to tie two batteries together to jack 24v to it.
It worked for a couple seasons, until the starter finally grenaded. I was probably 18 years old and broke. Funny thing was, I found a used starter, after that, for like $15. YOUNG AND DUMB!
The side of the boat had a sticker that said “da boat” with the lettering in the shape of a fish. I remember making that sticker in a robotics class, thinking I was the cats ass. Ha!

I ran that boat for 6-7 years, before getting a 16’ Smokercraft.

Curious what others started out with??

 

[LBrandt]

Just had a motor for many years and just rented a boat for fishing. Seamed like every lake had a farmer that rented those little 12 ft boats for like 5 bucks a day. In 1983 got a 14ft lund and used that until 2008 when I got my 16-5 Alumacraft sc. LB

 

[Mushballer]

1991 Spectrum with a 75 Merc

 

[Skeeter]

1995 16 ft Lund angler with a 60 2 stroke merc tiller.
this boat defined my fishing in 2 ways. Tiller life is where it’s at, my unapologetic HATRED for merc engines.

 

[agriffith]

1984 Lund W16 with a 1983 Mariner 50 hp tiller. Best boat I have ever owned.

 

[MULEDEER]

Early 70s lonestar aluminum 14 foot that leaked. Mercury 25 2 stroke from 70.

 

[riverview]

12 foot ted willams aluminum with 15 horse johnson

 

[5575]

1998 1775 Skeeter 150 yamaha vmax dual console with bubbles.

 

[scrotcaster]

1980's 16' lund mr.pike with a 50 merc tiller,,, caught more fish out of that boat than anything else.. kinda miss it..

 

[KDM]

My first watercraft was a float tube and swim fins. Shot lots of ducks from it and caught so many fish out of that stupid tube it's ridiculous. Great trip down memory lane V. Thanks!

 

[wslayer]

1966 Sears 14' with 6hp Mercury took a long time to get anywhere, but it was the real deal for pulling spinners.

 

[JayKay]

1975 Fiberglass Sea Star semi tri-hull. Sparkly rose in color, with a white bottom. Open bow, walk through windshield. 75 hp 2 stroke merc. had a flasher in the dash, that never did work. No speedo, no tach. No idea how many rpms it did. My dad and I ran that boat on the Missouri River for probably 8 years, never knowing how deep the water was. We hit some bars in the beginning, but I got real good at reading the river.

 

[Fishmission]

1990-16ft Mirrocraft aggressor. 40 hp mariner magnum. 36 thrust troller hooked up to a hummingbird 30 flasher. Also had an impulse 2800 LCD graph. That little boat was a great fish catcher. Guaranteed a wet ride on sac

 

[jdfisherman]

19XX Starcraft 14' with a 15 HP Evinrude. Called it the Aluminum Bathtub. Never serviced the motor but it started on 1 or 2 pulls every time, even with years old gas. Bought it for $1000, had it for about 10 years, sold it for $1000.

 

[watson]

First actual floating vessel was a canoe my older brother and I made from hollowing out a length of cottonwood, heaviest damn thing but it did float, actual boat was a 198? forester tri hull with 70 evinrude.

 

[pointer]

1983 SeaNymph with a 25 Merc tiller came with a Lawrence flasher, was a nice boat to ride in on a hot day, when the one foot waves soaked you. But did get into places that the bigger boats couldn't when Oahe went down to nothing in the early 90s

 

[Downrigger]

2000 alumacraft 175 trophy sport. Boat had a lot of build up damage from sitting on a lift on a lake, I believe Ashtabula. Spent a summer and some $$ on several hull cleaning products and finally got it removed. Look real good after that. Had an upgraded Suzuki 4 stroke on it and that was my favorite motor I've owned.

 

[Wirehair]

1970 Lund S-14 with a well used 25 HP Johnson that would run periodically. Lived in Bottineau at that time and spent an insane amount of time in that boat on Metigoshe.

 

[Shockwave]

92 Sylvan Eliminator. I had it up until two years ago when we bought the new boat.

 

[Jigaman]

1. 1981 Lund Mr Pike w/ 50 hp Mercury
2. 2000 Bayliner 1954 w/ 3.0
3. 1999 Lund tyee 1850 w/ 135 opti
4. 2012 Ranger Reata 1850 w/ 150 Verado