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Hooligan86
If the boat can fit in the back of your truck, it's too small for your family!!!
If the boat can fit in the back of your truck, it's too small for your family!!!
agreed, tough to get one in the bed but over the top and hanging out the back a few feet, maybe....we (myself, wife, 2 elementary school age sons, labrador retriever) used to fish and weekend camp out of a 17' Alumicraft canoe, with a trolling motor and sonar, in large N. Idaho lakes (Priest, Pend Oreille, Coeur d'Alene, and lakes in Glacier NP), but you can't toss a long boat like that in a truck bed (It rode on top of a minivan real good).
you could go with 2 inflatable kayaks and put an adult and kid in each, these are good ones with a rigid floor:
Aquaglide Chinook XP Tandem XL Inflatable Kayak | Next Adventure
CHINOOK 120 XL
it would be easy to connect 2 of these sort of kayaks together side-by-side to make a super stable raft with 1100# weight capacity and have an easy place at the back between them to mount an electric trolling motor:
I'll check those out, thanks. My problem is I tow a camp trailer so I can't tow a boat trailer, but I want to get out on the water and fish.
I would get a 15' smokercraft Alaskan, those other boats you are looking at are too small. As the kids get bigger you will most likely have to get another boat. I can fish three adults out of mine but that's max.
He could get an boat loader for the top of his truck and wheels on the transom for putting in the water.I have a feeling he would need to tow that boat. lol
You have any more pictures of that? Looks like a pretty simple design that might work well for meTandem kayaks sitting on a rack in the back of your truck could be a good solution for small calm water. Here is a pic of a temporary solution I built out of $35 of 2" X 3"s. It is a temporary solution until it becomes a big enough priority to build or buy exactly what I really want. The middle shelf holds 2 full size coolers leaving room in the bed for other essentials. The whole thing sits in the bed of my truck of course and is strapped down using ratcheting tie downs. Quick and easy to remove or load. Takes me about 15 minutes to load and strap two kayaks down by myself. Just one of many ideas on how to take boats and tow the camper.
Lol we have grown quite fond of the luxury of camping in a trailer I don't think we could go back nowGet an15-16 foot boat and camp in tent?
I will take a couple more pics and post them for you.You have any more pictures of that? Looks like a pretty simple design that might work well for me