Lund/Lowe/Misty/Mirro

[jimi]

Looking for a new tin boat for my 15 hp.<br /><br />Any do's or don'ts?

 

[JB]

Re: Lund/Lowe/Misty/Mirro

Hi, Jimi.<br /><br />Where I fish, on LOTW, Lunds outnumber all other tinnys combined. That is a big, rough lake.<br /><br />Tell us where and how you want to use the boat.

 

[RotaryRacer]

Re: Lund/Lowe/Misty/Mirro

The Lund Adventure WC 12 is a great little boat. Take a look at the layout of the seats.<br /><br /> http://www.lundboats.com//display/40/53/product_images04/adventure.pdf <br /><br />Very quick boat with a 15 hp.

 

[jimi]

Re: Lund/Lowe/Misty/Mirro

My lake is about 1/2 to 1 mile wide and about 8 miles long. It get rough sometimes. <br /><br />I've noticed that some tin boats have large strakes under the hull. Those strakes seem to grab the water and make the boat ver<br /><br />Any experience like this?

 

[RotaryRacer]

Re: Lund/Lowe/Misty/Mirro

My experience with the Lund doesn't include much rough water but on wakes it has been good. It has a pretty flat bottom so it can hit pretty hard on the way down. However it tracks very straight from my experience.

 

[jimi]

Re: Lund/Lowe/Misty/Mirro

Sounds good.<br /><br />Does anyone have Lowe or Mirro experience?

 

[ratracer]

Re: Lund/Lowe/Misty/Mirro

My kickaround boat is a 12' Gamefisher, which is a rebadged Sea Nymph (Lowe), that I bought new in 1988. I won't take it out onto the main body of Sebago Lake - any of you familiar with the lake can understand why - but I'm comfortable taking it out just about everywhere else around here, and the boat (and motor, a Johnson 9.9) has held up beautifully the last 16+ seasons. With a 15HP motor a good match would be a 14', or a heavier 12' like that Lund that RotaryRacer pointed out. <br /><br />One tin boat I'd never get again is a Starcraft.

 

[JB]

Re: Lund/Lowe/Misty/Mirro

Dang, Ratracer!<br /><br />You just triggered an OLD memory.<br /><br />I was crossing Sebago in a canoe with a group from summer camp when a guy in a Chris Craft runabout pulled up to us and informed us that Japan had surrendered. Early August, 1945. Boy, did we celebrate that night around the campfire. I think every boy in the group had at least one relative in the Pacific.<br /><br />Sorry. I don't want to hijack this thread, but I had to comment.

 

[DJ]

Re: Lund/Lowe/Misty/Mirro

I had a Lowe aluminum for eight years. It had a deeper V than the Lunds, so it rode better.<br /><br />Mine was used in numerous Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan (including Great Lakes) lakes.<br /><br />I wish I still had it.

 

[Hoserpoppasmurf]

Re: Lund/Lowe/Misty/Mirro

Had a 16 Mirro- high bow model with 35hp. I fished the saltchuk Straits from Pt.Roberts across the 25 miles to islands. I wish I still had it. My partener had a 14' Lund high bow roof topper with 25hp. He went anywhere I did, it took 2 men to carry his, a trailer for mine. Either one I would trust & did trust my life to.

 

[jimi]

Re: Lund/Lowe/Misty/Mirro

Are Misty Harbour boats any good?<br /><br />Anbody had problems with them?