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Well, Da Nag, they are both pretty cute to many people. When my son and I were fishing this weekend a big, nice charter boat passed us in the opposite direction. My son said "look, she's taking pictures of us!" referring to a woman on the back. He happily waved, but when she was still filming...

Jack, Spuncopper explained it pretty well. I will get a photo. It is completely mystifying to me why the boxes have that opening forward. I can stick my hand in it quite easily. It is like the actual seat boxes are placed on top of a very short three sided box to raise them a bit, but that...

While fishing this weekend I threw some water in the boat to wash out blood and noticed that there was a crack running down the floor between the seat boxes. After a fast few seconds of total panic I inspected closely and saw it was at the edge of the port seat box where it is attached to the...

To echo what everyone else has said "Wow!" I like your list of pros for each boat. This will be an interesting experiment to watch. Although your Cruiser is so much newer I can completely relate to you loving the fishing room and wanting to make the Angler a bit more cruiser-ish. I finally...

That is a sweet seat, James. I installed a slide under the factory chair and am quite happy with it so far. My kids like to lean on the seat back with an arm while watching their poles which is hard on seats. When this one ultimately breaks due to that I will definitely be replacing it with...

Is the boat on the right in those photos a 16? Not that I 'plan' to go out in big waves in my 16, but my family members have each made comments about being afraid of my boat. They aren't sure it is sea worthy...though they all took it out multiple times while I had to spend the entire summer...

I had a 16 ft CD cruiser shipped from Seattle to Ketchikan in March. I used Samson Tug and Barge and it cost just over $900. That's barely half way and a smaller boat. I've shipped lots of things with both AML (Northland doesn't exist, as such, anymore) and Samson and have always been happy...

When I drilled out the holes for the downriggers, they all appeared solid all the way through. No evidence of voids or bubbles so bolted everything up. I also got the slider installed for the helm seat and am able to swivel all the way around without hitting the controls. It is really nice...

Thanks. You described it exactly, I just didn't have the terminology. I wasn't sure how long the neat epoxy should sit after wetting so I waited a few minutes. Then I started adding the filler about a half teaspoon at a time followed by stirring as I wasn't sure what combination of quantity and...

Docking practice.

Bottom paint, down rigger holes, rivets

I had a long day working on the boat today. Due to a family emergency down south I've had to move my ferry reservations up to this Monday....and I had a ton of things I wanted to do to the boat before I left it in the hands of my family. I had already put the boat in the water, but planned to...

Epoxy filled holes. Notice the air bubble... Fixable though.

Rivets on other side.

Getting ready to fill holes for downriggers, but look at the rub rail rivets...is that okay?

Two coats of bottom paint! Double ugh, but looks nice I think.

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Primer on. After stripping with solvent, sanding, washing off with solvent. Ugh..

Kushtaka, I've know several people that actually shot holes in their boats aiming for a halibut; over excited I guess! But thanks for the tip on finding the brain. A quick kill and bleeding would be good. Like you, we never have trouble giving fish away and I know many folks here for whom...