Dear brother Terry,
It is indeed the Herter's boat as described by Lee Harker. I used to have one. Fun, and functional, I would recommend it in a minute if you are staying off the bigger water.
One discrepency in what the capacity tag in mine said, related to the horsepower. On the tag installed by Herter's, this boat was only rated for a 3 hp motor. Built out of extruded aluminum, my used one was water tight. No rivets leaked, and there were no places where the hull was compromised. The seats cleverly fasten to the insides of the hull, via a rail system. When I sold the boat to my friend Dave Hussey, he pulled the seats out, re-did the floatation, scraped and repainted the whole boat. It looked great when he was finished.
As the motor operator sits near the transom, the weight of a big trolling motor and battery plus the operator's weight, tends to squat the transom down quite a bit. Thus, my comment about staying off the big water. This was the only factor about mine that I stayed mindful about.
In closing, if you're looking for a great boat to slide into the back of a pickup truck for close jaunts, or to trailer across country to exotic marshes and watersheds of the like, I strongly recommend you buy this boat. We were going to make a deal with Herter's before they were bought up by Cabela's, and the company rep. had the forms all ready to pass on to us. That's how much I liked this great marsh boat.
God Bless!
Mark
