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Do some research...I think you may be surprised on how well the Panga handles a moderate sea.

If you read the ad on the one you posted you would see that guy had his panga 40 miles out in 6 footers....stay inside? nah.

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Economical, draws little and handles the slop well. I'm gonna try and set up a demo ride soon.

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Tin got to tell ya, being a two boat owner for years I understand. But there is no boat that does it all well, everyone has to compromise something. Down here in Barnegat Bay, which is a huge and beautiful fishery they have a lot of what I would call flats, shallows that go for miles with all the assosisiated feeder streams and rivers. It's a fly fishermans dream and several guides targeting several species up to sharks there. The waters are tidal of course and two foot water becomes an island in some places quickly.My point being even an average shallow draft CC has problems in these areas and most of the guides are running the skinny water flats style boats and when working clients in the channels and inlets they are in a CC. Cause you don't want to be in a Panga with clients especially when the inlets do their daily wind/tide shifts.

That being said if you really want one boat to do both well you can't do it with a mono hull there is a boat that does both well, very well and that is a cat boat of one design or manufacture or another. When I was in Florida I saw these being used a lot by guides and we are seeing a bunch here in Jersey also. Shallow draft, very stable at sea, incredible ride and wide decks for fishing. There are enough out there where you can pick up used ones for a good price. If down the road when I hit the lottery and I want my one all around boat/new it will be a cat boat. I've been on two at sea and there reallyis nothing like them for ride and all around fishing performance JMHO

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And I think that Panga on boat trader, 40 miles off shore in 6 footers is one of the original Coral Reefers ::) spent to much time fitting in in Key West, lost himself.

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Well I don't know because I have never been aboard one but I can tell you from persoanl observations that the Panga style hull is currently the hull of choice for Columbian drug smugglers. Theirs are longer 30-35ish but they use the for extremely long offshore all weather voyages. Right or wrong, it is their business to know what works.

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hey tin i got news for you... i have been 40 out in 6 plus and it wasnt in no skiff... was in a 42 egg harbor and it was extremely unpleasant. im not going 40 out in a skiff in 6 inchers no matter what the add says.

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tell ya something else... been to the hudson in a 20 wahoo center and i been 20, 30, 40, and 50 in me old searay and i been at least 20 or more in my buds 21 robalo more times than i care to remember... guy can say whatever he wants in his ad... its his ad. cute as it is, and if i was going to fish flats i would probably check one out too, but its still a skiff and i aint fightin that skiff out jones inlet or any other inlet for that matter. far as im concerned thats a skiff and i aint goin outside in a skiff. >:(

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Hey Mirage,

Just noticed your sig. I've got the same CG license as you, Master 1600GT and Second Mate unlimited. I did stop sailing a few years back though. Are you sailing on yours? I was in American Maritime Officers Union, you?

Fishmaster, what some people find "extremely uncomfortable" other people are having fun. If you don't like the Panga, fine. I'm not here to have an "E" arguement with anyone ;D

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"Do some research...you're wrong."


i dont know, that sounds a bit argumentative to me... must have meant it in a good way. my mistake. :-/

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edited that post above, :)