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Interesting thread. Thanks for those linked pics Jeff. My eyes started to well up. Those Norman pins on the splash well? I, just, well, you know..............

@jd

I agree your boat is a beyond 'modified' genuine 13' Whaler. Some of my favorite Whaler shots are of chopped 13's. Chopped clean in three pieces!

I used to work summers for a dock/sea wall company in New Jersey. I'm thinkin' , cut a bias ply 70 series tire in half and screw it into the bow. Bam! Perfect for pushing the barge around the site. That or put a culling table in the stern, move the console straight forward to the bow, mount some serious bow lighting on that flat face and it would make one heck of a great Florida estuary clammer/crabber/flounder/shrimper skiff. Still unsinkable. Beauty.

Joe has a great "Personal Page for Dummies" (if I can do it, anyone can) DIY post at the head of the 'Personal Page' section. .Get yourself one going. I'd love to see more of your boat in action. And more of those flat fish. Was that really a 'Halibut' or a Fluke or Flounder? I've never seen an Alaskan Halibut that small rod n' reeled. And man, this flat lander has landed a bucket of puny chickens!