Anybody running a Weldbuilt Boat with a SD ? Dealer called Backwoods Landing is close to me and has pretty good pricing on boats. I am liking the 1752's with 24" sides can get a .100 gauge boat under 3K brand spanking new. Anyone have any good or bad to say about boats or dealer??

What're you planning to use the boat for? How many people/how much gear will be the normal load? These are just a couple questions to get better responses to your questions.

I hear weldbilt makes a decent boat, but it isn't a true mud hull due to the bottom and the bracing. If you aren't running anywhere near stumps, would be fine. Otherwise, get something designed a bit better for what you're going to put it through.

I run a 1548 weldbilt from backwoods, but no surface drive, ive got a backwater SWOMP on it.. I mostly ride lake blackshear/flint river and its slam full of cypress stumps, ya im a little more cautious in known stumpy areas but I love how lightweight my boat is incase ive gotta do some dragging.

Sorry.... here is a little more info..... at the most three guys and duck hunting gear, running Ohio river, some backwater ( when we have it ...rare this past season) and we have a lot of buck brush and some cypress sloughs here as well. So a little bit of everything and only long runs would be the river. I would love to have a true mud hull but it seems they are quite a bit more expensive, not to mention rare here in KY.

The size you're looking at would be fine, then. The boat, as long as you aren't supid and pinball in through stumps, it'll work. Is it the best thing, no. Will it get hooks in it, eventually. Know going in that horizontal bracing isn't the best in stumps, and that hooks will happen. If your expectations are such going in, you know what you're getting, and accepting of it. Then it'll be fine.