Hello all:

I'm considering buying my first boat, and wonder if any of you folks have
any advice/opinion on the following:

- Lund boats or Alumacraft boats. I want a light 16' deep-V boat that I can
trailer in my small Toyota pickup, which is rated for 3500 lbs trailering.
Around here there are a lot of Tracker boats, but I've heard complaints on
Tracker customer service and problem with leakage through the welds. They
tell me Alumacraft is a good quality boat, and Lund is top of the line.

- The jet propulsion engines from Honda (BF35 or BF65). They really look
interesting because it allows access to shallow areas and it's quieter, but
I wonder if this new technology (or perhaps not new, I don't know) is not
that well developed that it's best not to get into it at this moment.

I'm in central Texas and I'm looking to do mainly bass fishing around the
Hill Country lakes (some of them pretty large bodies), and perhaps once in a
while go to the Gulf coast to do bay fishing or close-to-shore fishing.

Thanks in advance for your help
Sergio