I agree, there are better boats for the bigger water, but I do plan to fish some from it this summer and think that it will be good for poling the creeks and grass flats for soft crabs.
That looks like a Jack Williams-built Ausable River boat. Jack lived just a few miles from here and I went to high school with his son. Those boats are awesome and ideally suited for the "holy water" of the Ausable. The river is just a cool place to be almost year round. In the last 10 years or so, I have really enjoyed my time spent there, fishing, hunting or just canoeing with friends.
As far as the grassing and sliding under the cedars, its a little more like sliding under the low hanging oak branches full of acorns and watch for woodies, which is coincidentally, what we will do with this boat.