On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 06:43:44 -0800, jaykchan wrote:

http://www.user.dccnet.com/lsumpter/boats/Stinky03.jpg

I see four seats...
OK, when I redid the interior I only put in three seats:
http://www.user.dccnet.com/lsumpter/boats/Stinky06.jpg

But there was room for four.

I see how you manage to put 4 persons on the boat. You guys are
sitting quite close to each other, like sitting in a car.

I prefer people to stay an arm length away from each other, and be able
to move around in the boat (such as when my wife hooks a fish and I
need to move over there to help her to unhook the fish, or just want to
stretch my legs after sitting in a car for a long while and then
sitting on a boat for a while again). I guess we have a different
requirement in mind.

Jay Chan

I understand. What I was "compaining" about was your working that 18ft is
the MINIMUM for four people.

When I was a kid on Harrison Lake, a 16-ft boat was considered Quite
Large. We had our family of 4 in our 12-ft runabout (with 20hp engine)
quite often. We didn't get places very fast, and on one occasion had to
turn and duck into Green Point when the waves were 2-3ft, but in general
it was OK for 4 people.

It's a common recommendation here that 18ft is about the MINIMUM anybody
recommends. Makes people looking at this NG to think that they need $20K
or so to go boating, and that's simply not the case. It's like saying the
MINIMUM car you can have for 4 people is an Impala (when there's lots of
people happy with an Echo)

Lloyd