Anybody around SELA running a backwater longtail? I know somebody interested in them, but we don't know anybody running one. Be cool to get an up close look at one and/or see it in action.

I have one. . But I'm in south east tx , if you are coming to mud run. , bring him , y'all can take it for a spin. .
Pm me

H Finn

I've seen Huck's Longtail in action and I'm here to tell you that thing is the Longtail Caddilac. No question about it. I wish I would have taken some pics of it next to my mudbuddy LT and the Beavertail that we rode with. That thing not only ran circles around both of us, the construction of the frame makes all the others look like high school shop projects. I never once saw him having to fight with it, or wrestle it to make it go where he wanted. We ran everything from open water, shallow mossy bottom, thick matted grass, a little mud, tight timber, twisty sloughs you name it... I have seen it in deep mud and it performed then too.
This is not even getting into the advantages of their seal and bearing system, their props, or the cav plate that keeps the attitude of the drive and prop right no matter where or how it's being operated.

In the world of longtails, there's not another company out there building anything close to it. The engineering, construction, adjustability, and ease of operation is light-years ahead. I'm personally in the market for a surface drive for my next rig but if I were to consider a Longtail of any type, it would be a SWOMP. No two ways about it.

That's kinda what I was thinking too SETx...look like the best LT option out there. If I'm ever out you and Huck's way I'll get with yall for sure. Especially since ole Huck is a home boy from my neck of the woods. Lol

Will do kcpanages, thanks.

Long runs, no doubt the backwater is the performer.... AND. After witnessing the BW in the "junk" next to the others, it wins again. I own a MB, and given it to do over, would get a BW every day of the week. The vertical stop the BW has keeps it from digging when you don't want it to, and allows it to go as far as you want with an easy adjustment. If my MB would have had that, I wouldn't have broken my tiller handle clean off in the mud at the SETX ride last year.

Mine may be for sale before too long. Got to get enough money for another motor first though. Can't be without a motor

I went with the BW too, but I got the kit, and put a GX690 on it. Still impressing me with how versatile and tough that frame is. I run it in GA on the flint and they are more or less stump finders than boats over here, I'd recommend the BW to anyone wanting a longtail. well worth the $$

I got the new glider lite kit earlier this year. It was the first production model sold with the new design for higher HP vtwins. It is easy to turn and smoother once I get it on plane. I run it on an overloaded 1448 with myself (220), my brother (230) a beavertail flip top blind, guns, dozen decoys and our hunting clothes (waders and such) we run 18 per GPS into a slight current. Well beyond my expectations with a Honda gx670. This is my first long tail so I cannot compare ease of use, but I was expecting it to be harder to handle than want it turned out to be.

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