Originally Posted by
USMA65
I recently had the same thoughts.....low seats....safety for an old guy.
In the summer of 2017 I looked at Craigslist in Minnesota; now I live in TN, so this was not where most would start their search, but I did. I found a boat I liked, an SV-16 with a 50 Mercury ES. So I drove 1123 miles to Duluth. Got there and the boat looked great, but the motor was a disaster, so I passed. Drove all the way home, but I just look stupid, I'm not really (depends on who you ask ;-) ). I actually looked at Craigslist while I was still in MN, and saw nothing I was interested in, so back to TN I came. After two boat-less weeks, I looked at MN Craigslist again.......and there it was! I called the guy, who was a little suspicious, but finally reached a verbal deal. I then drove back with a Lund Pro Pike 16. The boat was sitting 4 miles off the interstate where I had just passed two weeks prior, and was advertised on Craigslist three weeks before, I just overlooked it! My wife and all my friends call it my 4600 mile boat!!! A few weeks later, after suffering much ridicule, I went to the doctor for my annual physical. They normally give me three words to remember at the beginning of the exam, but since I still remembered apple, penny and tree from a year ago, they decided my mind was clear enough for 75 years of age. My wife was sitting there when my doctor came in and asked me how I was doing and whether I had travelled anywhere this summer. When I told him what I had done, he started laughing, and said that's great!!! My wife looked at him and said, why? He told her most men, particularly those physically challenged for years, would never attempt an adventure like that. So what's the moral of my story......go get a low seat Lund, because, as Richard Gene says, it'll be good fer ya!!!
PS:I just read this to my wife , and she did what all wives do, she corrected me......she says my second trip to MN was not two weeks after the first.....that I returned from the first on a Sunday and left on the second trip on the next Friday. I'm more of a dude than even I thought. But seriously, now would be a great time to look for a Lund where they use them........up north!