Ok, Mr. Dictionary!
Batou, batow, flat, what ever the hell u wanna call it!
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| Author: | lizard55033 [ Mon Nov 15, 2010 2:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Skiffs VS Jon Boats.... |
I keep reading that skiffs are a good boat for beginners.... Why is that? |
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| Author: | b_coonass [ Mon Nov 15, 2010 2:54 pm ] |
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| Author: | UNCLE-J [ Mon Nov 15, 2010 2:58 pm ] |
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| Author: | b_coonass [ Mon Nov 15, 2010 3:00 pm ] |
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Ok, Mr. Dictionary! Batou, batow, flat, what ever the hell u wanna call it!
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| Author: | UNCLE-J [ Mon Nov 15, 2010 3:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Skiffs VS Jon Boats.... |
FYI...... A Bateau is a shallow-draft, flat-bottomed boat which was used extensively across North America, especially in the colonial period and in the fur trade. It was traditionally pointed at both ends but came in a wide variety of sizes. The name derives from the French word, bateau, which is simply the word for boat and the plural, bateaux, follows the French, an unusual construction for an English plural. In the southern United States, the term is still used to refer to flat-bottomed boats, including those elsewhere called jon boats. |
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| Author: | b_coonass [ Mon Nov 15, 2010 3:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Skiffs VS Jon Boats.... |
| Author: | quackconsumer [ Mon Nov 15, 2010 3:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Skiffs VS Jon Boats.... |
If you have to ask, don't buy a skiff unless you value your life very little. |
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| Author: | b_coonass [ Mon Nov 15, 2010 3:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Skiffs VS Jon Boats.... |
QC, You hit the spot on dat one!
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| Author: | latravcha [ Mon Nov 15, 2010 4:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Skiffs VS Jon Boats.... |
Trust me you dont need a skiff. I ran one for years and gave it up when I quit crawfishing. If you know what you are doing you should not have a problem, but if you dont you will hurt yourself. If you have to ask this question you dont need one |
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| Author: | autogateman [ Mon Nov 15, 2010 4:36 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Skiffs VS Jon Boats.... |
what makes a skiff so dangerous? |
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| Author: | UNCLE-J [ Mon Nov 15, 2010 4:38 pm ] |
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The driver. There's no difference. Except a narrower bottom towards the bow |
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| Author: | latravcha [ Mon Nov 15, 2010 4:41 pm ] |
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Cross a wake with a heavy load and find out. even worse when the controls are in the front |
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| Author: | BabyMatt [ Tue Jan 04, 2011 8:22 pm ] |
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Skiffs are an acquired taste. |
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| Author: | POKER1 [ Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:39 pm ] |
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| Author: | BabyMatt [ Tue Jan 04, 2011 10:38 pm ] |
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U should probably drive one first. Haha |
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| Author: | UNCLE-J [ Wed Jan 05, 2011 6:19 am ] |
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| Author: | cmiller73 [ Wed Jan 05, 2011 10:06 am ] |
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Doesn't the amount of rake make a skiff dangerous? Less rake tends ot dig the water more than one with more rake. Right? Big skiffs with alot of rake tend to be OK. That is if you know how to drive them. For the record, I grew up in the Bell River/Pierre Part area and drove many different skiffs. Never have been thrown out of one. But was taught how to drive them from an early age. |
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| Author: | UNCLE-J [ Wed Jan 05, 2011 10:13 am ] |
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