I love my skiff but I didn’t build it to spec. I bought the demo.
I’d probably have rear facing rod tubes a stern mount for a TM and I’d love a brand new 2 stroke 90 Yammy lol.
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7 to 9 because the back 2 boxes hold water as does the front I would say walkable gunnels but the mosquito lagoon edition has grown on me.
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I’ve had mine nearly two years. I’d love to have the speed my bass boat had. I’d love to have the ride of a 32 Contender. But I bought this boat to run skinny and pole skinny, and it does that extremely well on two or three gallons of gas a day. I can’t think of a thing I’d change; it does exactly what I want it to do, and none of the folks I fish with have a boat that does it better.
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Holds water? Maybe pop a drain in each?
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Yeah eventually I will have Jonny do it
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Cheaper to keep her👍🏻
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7-9 but that i suppose makes her a 10 in my eyes. Hard to have this and that. In reality you can only have this or that. For all of what I do with it I couldn’t do much better. Ordered a Key West 177sk w F70 tiller no console had it since 2011. Handles big water and inlets great. Runs fairly shallow by my standards solid as a rock. Other than change the oil and a water pump i haven’t done anything but fish it. Got a nano jack coming, just got tabs and about to pull the trigger on a cav plate then a custom prop. Trying to skinny up a little for fishing behind the islands obx.
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Has the HMP Nano finally been revised and confirmed for delivery? Haven’t seen any updates- great news if so…
I’d give mine a solid 8.5. If I could shave 3-4” of draft it would be a 10. Anytime I fish on @DBStoots boat I like mine less, but one trip in the snot and I’m back in love. In all seriousness, my boat is fast, comfy and reasonably dry. Long runs are very comfortable. I just can’t get into the real skinny stuff. Only boats that would ever tempt me would be a HB pro or a Chittum 18 (12*) but both of those are out of my price range so I’ll keep her for now!
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Idk that if I won the lottery I’d order my skiff exactly but I dang sure wish I’d had been smart enough to buy it new in’01..,
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I love my skiff, 7-9, it is a perfect boat for what I do with her. Very skinny, takes chop really well with the Carolina flare. I wish it had a 20 gal vs 15 though, it can be restrictive on long runs in the glades. My original mosquito had a Suzuki 60, I found it underpowered, so when I got a new Mosquito after IAN, I put a F70 on it and it’s the perfect engine for it. Not a three person boat though.
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I would give my skiff (16 waterman tunnel) a 9… maybe a 9.5. She does what she was designed to do very well. Floats as skinny as I’ve seen any skiff. Runs in maybe even less. It’s the lightest skiff I’ve ever pushed. Now the downside is the open water. It does fine but say Florida bay with a 20kt wind you won’t want to do many times 
. But it will do it. Luckily where I live we don’t have much open water. I guess I just need to buy a tarpon season boat too 
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2015 Whipray Classic - I give it a 9 for how I fish.
Likes:
- Skinny at 5” to 6” draft
- Wide beam and side console opens up the cockpit
- Sturdy build and design
- Lots of storage (there could be more)
- Can handle chop well
- With a 50hp it hits 31 kts WOT.
Dislikes
- 24 gallon fuel tank is overkill - I don’ t need a 200 mile range. This could be 15 gallons and give me more storage
- Porpoising - if I don’t use tabs the boat wants to take off for the moon. These boats were not designed for jack plates with setback and running the prop high. I can stay trimmed down with the prop in water and lessen the porpoising, but then I am not running as skinny.
What I want to add:
- Replace the Atlas jack plate with a Hull Marine Plate. I don’t want to go with Bobs - I want a pump in the plate to save space and want the lightest plate on the market.
- Mod my engine to a 60 hp by changing out the ECU and removing the air restrictor.
- Low water pick up by @Smackdaddy53
- Floating trim tabs - my tabs hit bottom before my hull. I could maybe squeeze out another half inch of draft. But this is pie in the sky - I hear they work so am curious about them.
With those mods, I bet I could hit 36 kts / 40 mph and run insanely skinny.
Overall, it is a killer skiff and it has exceeded my expectations.
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Why dont you like those features? I was looking to build my next skiff to include false floor and a top hatch lol
Ran through Pine Island Sound today, and poled in 6” of water (after running through areas marked 1’ or less to get there!). Dry and skinny! Love my Waterman!
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@rovster - in real life, what does that EVO draft? My Maverick is a solid 10"+, which works for around here, but I have been eyeballing the EVO for a friend because I thought it was a good bit less than that.
990-4 No for now but sounds promising. I paid Tyler in full and got on the waiting list. From our conversation it sounded like September. Hey, I’ve had my skiff 14 yrs this month with no jack plate so I’m in no bind of any sort. I am very excited about it though. My plan is to pick it up in person to meet him.
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Never measured but mine feels like 10-12”. I’m a big dude at 220 and mine has the 115, JP, and PP on the rear end. Not a skinny boat but it excels in other areas, probably like your Mav 
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Try looking at this boat, it’s designed by Chris Morejohn, including the top and hatches, the modern materials and redesign makes this a Marquesa type boat with minimal draft compared to that class boat. It is the Beryllium 18, in production by backside Boatworks.
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I remember the owmer coming on here and explaining the name. Didnt realize it was a beryllium model from Chris, though
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