I thought I would ask the obvious question. We often have posters here who use surface drives, and I know that is the "bread and butter" nowadays for the major mfg.'s, but I strongly believe there is a place for the tried and true longtail. I have relatively short runs in a sheltered marsh, shallow water, hard bottom, no extensive mud but a few mud "rafts", the usual "veggies". I know the longtail has been used as far north as Alaska, and south in the Amazon. In many parts a "duck boat" is used only to ferry hunters to and from built blinds, but we use our boats here as our floating blinds. Frankly I am tired of the nouveaux surface drive owners putting us down categorically.
