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The durability. As a commercial fisherman for the last 33 years I watched the Maine Marine Patrol buy several brands of boats for service in a ocean environment. One brand held up ok the other two got really beat up quick. Those may work well for most but I wanted a boat that I could fish lakes as well as the ocean for striper, haddock and a few blue fin tuna trips per year out to 20 miles or so. The west coast style boats are designed with fishing the ocean in mind. The rails are perfect for the flush mounted rod holders used for the 130 class rods used for blue fin tuna. I would not need to load the tuna I would just tow it in at 7-10 kts as we have done at times in the past. We tow them for a hour or so minimum regardless so towing them two hrs is no big deal and it would actually cool the fish much better then ice.

April 1st Honda offers a 6 year warrentee vs a 5 year in March.

I am very impressed with how well they are built and believe it or not this was a couple 1,000 cheaper then the other 18' boats of this style I looked at. Lifetime warrentee on the whole boat including the deck.

And cheeper then the 18' Lund Sport Angler

After many days and many conversations with dealers from mostly the west coast I found a boat. I looked at Hewes Craft, North River and Duckworth. There is only one dealer for any of these boats here on the east coast. A dealer here in Maine just took on Duckworth boats in February. This was the first one he has sold. It has a 135 Honda and starting April 1st they come with a 6 year warrentee. I pick the boat up on Wednesday.20'6" long with a 96" beam 135 Honda and a 42 gal tank dry weight of 1,656 lb

I went to the only Duckworth dealer on the east coast on Wednesday. Man the 20' Adventure Sport was beautiful and I was very impressed with how well built they were. For me it would be a boat that really should last a lifetime.

Its not neighboring states you should be worried about. NYC is the hot spot

I fixed that for you. In a couple of weeks we may not have even peaked, sadly

I have a mast with two reels that i had in the bow of my smaller 16' boat. Being that far forward did work well. I will keep using that and just run a line to each planer line and pull the line back to hook the release into.

With rods?

If I mount my planner mast on the rail should I get the 36" or 72"? 72 may be to high?

Which track system will these fit?

I am setting up a new boat. What are some good options for rod holders and/or track systems that hold rod holders? I would also like to put planner reels on each side. Looking for options for those as well. Thanks I should add this new boat is a 20' Duckworth Advantage Sport. 4 rods per side and 2 off the riggers. Maybe two more on the stern

Do the scotties have the option to follow the bottom like the Cannons? Thats a very nice feature when fishing lakers here in Maine.

Not yet. When I looked on the dealer site from Ohio it didn’t show much for inventory so I figured I would need to wait forever to get the package I wanted.

Thanks, I have pretty much decided on a North River.

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Is this boat still available?

Very nice....

OMG...... I have caught many 100" blue finn tuna but that is a fish of my dreams.

Yes, between this 18 and a 19'. Rigged right I could fish salmon in a 3,000 acre lake here in Maine or stripers on the coast and the occasional blue finn tuna trip out to 12 miles.

Thanks. Check out the two options I called about above. The North River is older 2005 but only 120 hrs on the Yamaha