Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 at 13:54
The first and most important thing to know is.
If you have not had a boat or have not been arround boats, you will have no idea of what sort of boat you need.
Second, the idea of a boat and the reality are two very different things, particularly if the above.
There is no such thing as a boat that will do everything...if its bigger there are
places it should not or will not go, if its smaller there are
places it should not or will not go.
Best to start with a relatively small boat and learn to handle it is
places close to shore.
AND
You WILL ding ya first boat....no question.....so an expensive fancy boat is not a good first boat.
Buy small buy relativly cheap , If it all ends up to hard you have not blown too much $$$$.
Remember too very thimg to do with boats is either expensive or time consuming or both.
A boat may also be fine and beaut, but any boat gets very small very fast, when the conditions change and you are on open water.
for the sort of money you have, you should get into a 14 foot aluminium with 30Hp on the back with some money left you WILL spend later.
As for being able to launch single handed......everthing about handiling a boat is made a hell of a lot easier by having a proper system and practice.
Do not depend on anybody else to sort your boat or trailer out.....the only way known to do what needs to be done is to handle the boat and make the changes.
Any boat trailer properly set up the boat should runn off the trailer, slick as snot off a doorknob, and come back on just as easily.
But it all has to be set up proplery, bee will maintained and you have to have ya system worked out and practiced.
If you want to learn a little abot boats and fast, take a chair and some smoko down to a
boat ramp on a bussy day and watch the shenanigans.
You will see plenty of idiots who have no idea, and the few you know their business.
The people who know their business will be in and out and gone.....no troube.....while the idiots blundrer about.
Watch and learn.
cheers
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