lol Chuck you have THE best kind of fishin boat there is. That thing aint purty, aint fast, aint flashy and I doubt anyone would even steal it. What makes it so great? That aint a bassboat or a crappieboat or an xyzboat it iswhat I call aCATCHINBOAT!!! You can take a boat like that and get back into the nasties and fish little bodies of water that are either to bad to carry those big, expensive glass boats but you can get back into the fishy areas and CATCH THEIR REARENDS. I have two small boats, an 8' plastic two man "pond hopper" and a 14' jonboat and I have caught MANY more fish from them than I ever have in any of my big glassboats.

LOL, but don't think I aint skeert of gettin my red baby dirty or scratched. She was less than one week old (I'm the original owner) when I brokein the motor and then carried her the next week too Lake Fork, TX for a week in March '99. If you've never been to Fork it is a 40,000acre flooded hardwood forrest with HUGE stumps and trees!!! [:@]

I wish I had a pic of my "first" boat. When I was about 11 years old I bought a 2man inflatable that I used to tow on a two wheeler/dolly behind my dirtbike! It had a piece of plywood in the bottom for the "floor" (lol and it was wrapped in a beach towel to keep splinters from puncturing the boat!) with a stadium seat strapped too a plastic milk crate for my "pedestal bass seat"! Can't call me un-creative...
RA

ps
Champ' Islander that is about the LONELIEST picture I ever did see...