What kind of boat is this?

Mc Tool

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Depends what you want ....for instance that would be ok for shallow water spearing . We use a glass bottomed box ( actually a plastic fish tub with a repurposed tempered glass fridge shelf glued into the bottom ) to spy flounders and other bottom dwelling tasties that we then spear or drop a bait on its nose.
I use an inflatable because the buoyant bit is right under me as I lean over the side thus there is no rolly polly as with a normal boat .....the tri hull is a similar thing with a hard shell . They were a bit popular here a few decades ago and I still see the odd one about . A stable platform in flat water but not a great rough water boat .
 

jlh3rd

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popular back in the late 70's - 80's. My brother had one.
They'll beat the heck out of you at speed even in a relatively calm lake.
 

Texasmark

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Nevermind, I think it's called a tri-hull. I'm reading they are unwanted boats.
I had several of them when they were popular....1970-80's. It's a trim-hull and I didn't like mine especially for Sunday trips after church with the family aboard. But at the time that was all that was available where I boated and shopped, other than an open aluminum Skiff/John type boat 10'-18'. Wind driven rough water was their enemy.....later on the alternative was a deep V mono hull which was a dream in rough water.....especially when you had seating ahead of the windshield on either type. Only good thing I can say is at rest they are laterally stable whereas the monohull could be made to rock laterally with a lot of abrupt movement by occupants.....but it wasn't a show stopper.
 
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