River ox boats

[AndrewM]

Does anybody have any info or experience with them. I'm looking at I think a 15 or 16 footer. My understanding is they were produced by seaox. Seaox has a reputation for being good boats, the older ones at least. It's a sweet little rig but I'd like to know a bit more about it. Not much comes up on google.

Thanks

 

[KeithH]

They are old. Back in the mid to late '70s they were the bombproof work boat. The government actually gave many away to the boat-people coming in from Vietnam so they could commercial fish...then ended up giving many of them away to others in need for the same purpose. I thought they were first River Ox and then grew to form Sea Ox. They were tanks and could handle big stump hits without issue. I had a buddy in high school whose dad bought him one after he kept tearing up their old paper thin johnboat. I don't ever remember him damaging that boat at all. You can still find them every now and then around coastal areas...crabbers and oyster harvesters liked them.