18' Aluminum Use.

[Downwindtracker2]

My friend has a 18' open aluminum, looks like your standard tinny except rather long.. Since he is fighting cancer, and losing, I'm careful about topics when talking with him, so wouldn't want to ask for fear of bringing on memories. Even if he just picked it up cheap. I wondering what it's market would have been . It was built so there must have been a market.

 

[TyeeMan]

Some kind of a name, serial number, , , some kind of identification would help you get a better answer.

Does is have a motor on it? Trailer?

 

[Downwindtracker2]

I guess it's question is more about the type of boat, and where would you use it, not the boat itself . As I said it looks just like the common 12' aluminum cartopper. Narrow, shallow ,but long, with tiller steering. I'ld trust my 12 footer in seas just as much or more.

He said he had tried his 8hp Yammy on it. From his tone,I didn't think it was a success, certainly didn't plane. I haven't looked at it closely.

 

[roscoe]

Are you just curious about the boat?
Trying to sell it for him?
Trying to put a value on it?
Or trying to buy it from him or his estate?

Sounds like it would be good in a bayou.
Do you live near a bayou?

Not aimed at you personally, but...
Why doesn't iboats make your general location mandatory when you register?
Location, country, state, ocean, river, or lake boating, and climate, are so often important to giving an accurate and complete answer.

 

[Downwindtracker2]

Just curious about that type of boat's use. That's a good point about local water. I've never seen anything like it. 12s and 14s,yeah,but the odd 16s are more serious .I live near Vancouver BC, so no bayuos around here. BC is pretty mountainous so a lot of the rivers are white water. While the salt chuck,what we call the ocean, is part of the Inside Passage, it still can get pretty rough.

 

[roscoe]

Well, then maybe the boat didn't originate in the area.
Maybe tagged along when someone moved to the area from another part of North America ?

I know several brands made 18-19 foot aluminum utility boats back in the 70's.
Like a 1976 Lund Big resorter 18, 4 wooden bench seats and a 15" transom.

Here's a photo of a 1980 model, only weighed 415#.

 

[Downwindtracker2]

Thanks for the photo, now , no complaints about my description , Yes, that was my guess as well. And Reid picked it up cheap because it was such an odd ball.

We do have lakes in the interior for fishing, Kamloops Rainbow trout are world famous. I complimented John on his trailered 14' Mirrocraft tinny. His response was "Yeah after selling my 12' Mirrocraft, as I had a new 14', I had to go looking for another 12'. It was no where as nice a shape as mine had been." He has both, now. John is much more serious a fisherman than me.