fishing: the boat		>about-krc
Actually, boats, plural, since I've owned more than one.  Currently, it's an 18' Lund Fisherman (you were expecting something else?) powered by a Honda 110 hp four-stroke engine that purrs like a kitten at trolling speeds. It's a great fishing boat but also excellent for touring family and friends around on our lake here in Maine. I bought this one in March 2002 from Richardsons Marina on Sebago Lake, Maine.
The center photo was shot in August 2004. Devon Desai is in the yellow shirt and he's proud of the big white perch he just caught. His brother Dhylan is very proud of his older brother. They are sons of Kelly & Prasant Desai; Kelly is Donna's niece.
The boat I had before this was a 15' Monarch aluminum bass boat which I bought used in 1999 from an Easthampton fireman. With a flat bottom and a 55 hp Mercury outboard, it was definitely a step up from my older vee-bottom boat which I sold to a neighbor. I used this for two years and caught lots of fish up and down Damariscotta Lake. It had only one problem, a slow leak through one of the rivets in the bottom and I never was able to find which one(s). I had a neighbor with an identical Monarch boat and he had the same slow leak problem, and was never able to fix his either. I sold this boat to a friend in central Massachusetts, told him all about the slow leak, but it was no problem for him since he trailered his boat out of the water after every fishing trip.
Monarch bass boat with 40 hp Mercury outboard, May 2000.
Before that, I had a 14 ft vee-bottom aluminum fishing boat with a 9.9 hp Johnson outboard engine. I bought this one used in 1994 and was very happy with it for lots of fishing trips on the Quabbin Reservoir in western Massachusetts and later on Damariscotta Lake. It was good for fishing around or near our bay, but for longer trips up the lake, it took a LONG time!
Three nice bass caught August, 1999 near our dock on Damariscotta Lake.
Forty years before that my dad would take me fishing in a 14 ft vee-bottom fishing boat (like the one above), an Arkansas Traveler powered by a 35 hp Evinrude outboard. He and I made many fishing trips in that boat to Kentucky Lake and later on Lake Malone in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. He was the best fisherman I ever knew, could catch fish when nobody else could, even using the same rig, bait, and location! It was amazing. People in our town knew that Marvin Carver was one of the best fishermen around. Here's a picture taken in 1956 on Kentucky Lake. That's me (16 years old) in the black coat in the foreground, leaning over, head out of sight (so the picture could be taken) and Daddy.
Marvin Carver, 1956, Kentucky Lake.