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Originally posted by chris VI would consider all flats boats to be a skiff
however all skiffs are not flats boatswww.teamcharlestonmarine.com
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Agreed 100%
Wadmalaw native
16’ Bentz-Craft Flats Boat
I call them fishing boats:smiley:
And the one pictured is real Niccccce
fishing boat!!!
lol this thread and a drink or two will make you wonder. and 23Sailfish 30 hp is much too underpowered. I’m thinking a 90hp and a hydraulic jack plate. !
My son has my old 16’ skiff(carolina) with a 40 on it. More than it needs in a hard corner. I always wanted to put a 4 stroke 60 just scared about weight.
all that aside leadenwahboy … skiff poor man’s flat boat, flats boat… rich mans skiff.
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23Sailfish nice boat.
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Originally posted by 23SailfishSo then what’s this? Its 18.5’ long and only 30hp…
I call it sexy! And fancy…
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Nice Stiffy!
No matter how much it hurts, how dark it gets, or how far you fall…you are never out of the fight.
23 I would call it a flats skiff or tech skiff. Most boats of today skiff or flats have cross over capabilities and are a hybrid, than there is the bay boat, flats boat hybrid as well. The market for real flats boat is tiny. Try poling a Carolina skiff in wind and you find out it is a shallow drafting skiff. Try crossing 6 inch chop in a flats boat and you get wet. Combine the 2 and you have something that the average joe will find very capable and much more enjoyable. So many people think a ft of water is shallow. My old key west would cruise in 8 inches and it was a cc bay boat for the most part. Now if you got a tunnel hull and you can run on wet mud or sand like a inch or 2. That’s a flats machine. I’ve seen rednecks in metal tunnel hulls run on nothing but wet mud with standard tiller engines.
We use to call homemade wooden boats used to oar to a moored workboat a skiff. A little south they built scows for shoal water use.