Looking at a new boat wondering if anyone has a newer style lund alaskan 16′ Looking for any input or opinions, pros or cons. I like the open layout concept of the boat with no casting deck. Any opinions on casting deck or no casting deck?
The forum member KWP has one and I’ve fished with him many times. IMO it’s a terrific boat for serious heavy use. It’s basically the Sherman Tank of boats. Heavy duty, no frills, very durable.
As far as the flat floor vs casting deck, the goood news about the flat floor is you can fish 3 people easily without having to have the guy in the bow step down before running at speed. For safety and visibility of the driver, I don’t like running with a guy up there on the deck, so the Alaskan eliminates this issue.
Obviously, the boat isn’t made for mainly casting-type fishinig. Also, you have to read and look carefully because some Alaskan’s don’t have livewells either.
It’s an interesting option for the guy who uses the boat hard and values up time and minimal maintainance.
Grouse
I had an alaskan 18 back in the 80’s
Awesome big water boat. Low profile with little wind resistance. I wished the vhual went deeper through the transom. But that was a minor thing. Gteat trolling rig for me on lake mi. More stable than the big rigs. Mine was a tiller and I fabricated a console for it. I think later lund offered that as an option.
Sent back for warranty repair. The front compartment mounting plates tore apart from pounding in waves. Lund fixed it to my satisfaction
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The forum member KWP has one and I’ve fished with him many times. IMO it’s a terrific boat for serious heavy use. It’s basically the Sherman Tank of boats. Heavy duty, no frills, very durable.
As far as the flat floor vs casting deck, the goood news about the flat floor is you can fish 3 people easily without having to have the guy in the bow step down before running at speed. For safety and visibility of the driver, I don’t like running with a guy up there on the deck, so the Alaskan eliminates this issue.
Obviously, the boat isn’t made for mainly casting-type fishinig. Also, you have to read and look carefully because some Alaskan’s don’t have livewells either.
It’s an interesting option for the guy who uses the boat hard and values up time and minimal maintainance.
Grouse
The Grouse is right…Very tough no frills boat. Mine is the olive drab color so it may not be the prettiest boat on the water but I sure like it. I have a 1998 and I think the newer models are a little wider and can handle double wide seating which is nice.
Also, last I checked the casting platform option was only available on 18′ or bigger models; maybe they changed that for 2013.
Back in 2003 I worked at a resort on Leech, and the boats were 18′ Alaskans with 40HP Honda 4-Strokes on them. I felt completely comfortable taking one out in heavy chop. Things were tanks.
Thanks for all the info, going to take a good hard look at these.
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