Future Great Lakes boats?
 

It seems like the great lakers swear up and down by old heavy straight bottom boats. What 90s and 2000+ boats would you replace a flat deck, KV or mistress with? It seems like all the later boats became lighter, stepped and/or padded. Are they gonna stick with old boats?

Or are they claiming these boats are best just because they can't afford something newer? Oh snap!

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55MTI Mega Cat................

spirit of apache, no need to get a stepped bottom boat with the average day on lake Michigan is 3 to 5 and 2 feet at the mouth of Waukegan harbor

I'm going back to basics, screw it! Building a 27 Sport Magnum with LSX's and Arnesons then to replace the Donzi i am going with an old school 38 Excel Scarab with NO crap in the cabin . . . no micro . . no fridge . . . no sink . . . no air . . . just a cooler and some carpet and a lot of extra tabbing and bulkheads (Jim Dietz WickedOne style :D) This water just breaks schit apart and the long and short of it is most of that stuff is useless. Not sure what out there now fill the bill,

No more true words spoken then right there.

I like where your heads at. Maybe I need to learn how to glass and repair boats. I will say that a head can turn your boat into a chic magnet, especially if you have the only one in a flotilla.

Having the boat as a chic magnet, makes me appreciate the head.

the Donzi ZX model is a great Great Lakes boat. you can go with the 33 or the 38 both have a twin stepped all deep hull and still on the heavy side. plus they come stocked with heat air microwave cook top refrigerator full bathroom some also have generator and with the step tall I still can hit 80 with my 33

I boat on Lake Erie weekly looking for info on a cigarette bullet I am buying one upgrading from a formula 242 ls is the 31 bullet a good roughy water boat

New to the oso and any forum so was looking for some help any help would be great thanks !!

I already am a chik magnet . . . :D . . . notice i didnt say no head. One of the places we frequent is a pretty good walk to the nearest facilities. That i will keep but it will be minimal. . . . no sink in there either, there will be some Purell hangin from a rope and light weight toilet paper. . . lol

Where is this OP from? I was Great Lakes for years and moved to VA back in July. It gets just as snotty here in the Chesapeake Bay as it does on the Great Lakes. My guess is he is one of these small inland lake guys??

I would say yea . . . . on the Bullet being a good Lake Erie boat. White with flag graphics seem to do even better :D

The flag will be the first to go!!!! Unless u want to match the truck lol

My "cabin". Facilities are on the dock. http://i763.photobucket.com/albums/x...s533Medium.jpg

that's not nice...:eek:

Agree besides AC... lol

mine has none of the other frills besides the AC I put in it....

From what I have read the 31 Bullet is amazing for a 31 footer, never been on one but heard a ton of good things...looking at the one at MArine Tech?

I swear by old heave boats for Lake Erie, but if I was to get a newer boat, would be a TS Cig, or 41 Saber..... they are the best riding newer boats I been on in LE, Clifford was all business many great rides on it, didn't need steps on it.... ran good no matter what... and when it got big it was all business....

Why an excel btw? Are they built better than average? Do they need the mods you suggested to be robust? I do like the way they look.

Yes I bought the one mtc

I had glass Dave look at it prior to buying i water tested rides
Real nice so I closed the deal last week I'm ready to update it some and run it

Central IL. Boat mostly on inland lakes and waterways, but also frequent the Florida west coast where my folks live. I'd like to able to go out on lake MI and the gulf in the winter in a sport boat eventually.

actually I like the deck and trim plus the hull was still from the same mold as the flat deck. The vents and windscreen went through some changes around 1990, I would like to find an 88 or 89 trs boat