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Foot Steering, or Hand Steering?
- Thread starter cowboy
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Up to the time I got my boat I thought all Airboats had foot steering but the I am from Palm Beach.I very rairley ever saw a boat with a stick it was considered to be state of the art to have foot steering. Depending on what you want to do with the boat I can see where both could have an advantage.
airboat4fun
Well-known member
Howdy Yall, I have posted a few more pics of boats with foot steering in my gallery.
cowboy
Moderator
Airboat4fun,
Thanks for posting those photo's in your gallery.
I was most impressed with this rig below, when I saw it at the Palm Beach show.
This was one nice boat, and was rigged perfectly in most every way. I stood fore a long time, looking for something I did not like about this boat, and could not find it.
Thanks for posting those photo's in your gallery.
I was most impressed with this rig below, when I saw it at the Palm Beach show.
This was one nice boat, and was rigged perfectly in most every way. I stood fore a long time, looking for something I did not like about this boat, and could not find it.
marshmaster pat
Well-known member
Cowboy - We have the same tastes in boats. That is one really sweet looking rig.
I fell in love with those Palm Beach hulls the first time I was in one and we got stuck in tall phragmites cane (12-14 feet tall). It just didn't have the hp to push through the stand. Stomped a half moon circle down on the right side and the driver and I turned the hull around by HAND. He showed me the stick to measure every boat since. If I cannot get under the grass rake and squat the front of the boat off the ground, I don't want it. Ha Ha Ha.
I fell in love with those Palm Beach hulls the first time I was in one and we got stuck in tall phragmites cane (12-14 feet tall). It just didn't have the hp to push through the stand. Stomped a half moon circle down on the right side and the driver and I turned the hull around by HAND. He showed me the stick to measure every boat since. If I cannot get under the grass rake and squat the front of the boat off the ground, I don't want it. Ha Ha Ha.
cowboy
Moderator
Yeah I heard that Marshmaster,
It's even better to pull up next to a stuck six cylinder barge, and help them get out.
After you'll be tired, muddy, and wondering why anyone would want a giant boat, and maybe the guy who was stuck might be thinking the same thing.
Maybe he's just trying to go where his boat does not belong, or was intended to be.
I'd also have to recognize that some of those boats will probably do alot better than a Palm Beach boat, in other environments. It depends on where you do most of your running I guess. I don't think I'd want to go airboat flats fishing in the gulf with a small boat like is pictured above. But I'm still convinced that a boat like that is the best allrounder out there.
I do not know who owns that green boat, but he's got one fine rig there.
I could tell for darn sure that Donny Tooten rigged it, and he may have built the hull as well.
It's even better to pull up next to a stuck six cylinder barge, and help them get out.
After you'll be tired, muddy, and wondering why anyone would want a giant boat, and maybe the guy who was stuck might be thinking the same thing.
Maybe he's just trying to go where his boat does not belong, or was intended to be.
I'd also have to recognize that some of those boats will probably do alot better than a Palm Beach boat, in other environments. It depends on where you do most of your running I guess. I don't think I'd want to go airboat flats fishing in the gulf with a small boat like is pictured above. But I'm still convinced that a boat like that is the best allrounder out there.
I do not know who owns that green boat, but he's got one fine rig there.
I could tell for darn sure that Donny Tooten rigged it, and he may have built the hull as well.