[benjamin]

Originally Posted by Terry England

Ben, You don't want to look too close at that thing. It's got rust streaks running down the transom, a non-skid dash and the electronics box is an old seat back. It's rough. A 1967 is so old it doesn't even have the little reverse on the bow edge that the fancy "cutt'in edge" Potter boats like Don V has. It's a dang SeaCraft Panga, stripped down to the bare essentials but it does everything I need it to do and I don't have to fuss with it much. In the Design World the term is "Form Follows Function". I don't have a thread but there is a album on my member page with some more pictures of the old dawg.
Let's go scouting before July 1 so we know where to point when the season opens. I understand the red tide is still causing havoc in the panhandle area - if it "pushes" south it's going to run the Gags ahead of it and kill everything else. Last summer we caught them bunched up on the Meisner Crane and it was "shoot out at the OK corral" - we got our 6 and were pointed east by 10:30 to snag some hogs in 25'. Keep yout fingers, toes and eyes crossed that it leaves us alone this year.
I keep inviting Don V., Skiblet, Trader Ter, G FS, Denny, Snookerd , and No Bones to come on and go Scalloping or Diving up there with Kmoose and I but they are dead beats always polishing their bow rails or something equally as important, the weenies!

That's just minor cosmetics in my opinion.. Its still a sweet looking boat that catches fish. That's all that matters. I grew up fishing off a cobbled together 17 mako with my dad that makes yours look like the Queen Mary. It was the rat rod of boats.