Reviews on Boats and Motors I have used and currently use in my guiding career. Through my career I have had almost 50 boats and many many Mercury Outboard motors  or engines. Test and evaluation has been a big part of what I do. Names like Mercury Marine, Mercury Racing, Yellowfin yachts, SeaHunt, Actioncraft, Backcountry, Lake and Bay and Key Hopper.

Yellowfin 24 CE Bay Boat For Sale

Yellowfin 24 CE Bay Boat For Sale
Yellowfin 24 CE Bay Boat for sale

Yellowfin 24 CE Bay Boat For Sale. In mint showroom condition. This boat was on display at the 2025 Miami Internation boat show in the Yellowfin yachts booth. The boat comes complete turn key with a trailer, fully loaded and zero issues everything works. The reason I'm selling this boat is because I have two of them. I cannot run two boats at one time. The retail number on this boat was $225,000. The…

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Yellowfin 24 CE Bay Boat

Yellowfin 24 CE Bay Boat
My 2025 Yellowfin 24 CE "Critter" Carbon Elite Bay boat

Yellowfin 24 CE bay boat. The "CE" stands for Carbon Elite. The boat I have nicknamed "The Critter". This updated article is about my newest build from Yellowfin Yachts in 2025. Showcased at Miami International Boat Show in February of 2025. This Boat Is For Sale ! 2025 Yellowfin 24 CE "Critter" For sale Boat Motor and Trailer in Showroom condition fully loaded (Shown Here). less than 100 hours run time on the whole…

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What Is A Bay Boat

Bay Boat, Bay fishing Boat
Yellowfin 24 CE Bay Boat

What is a bay boat? Thats a great question. Who is qualified to honestly answer it? I think I am. In my career I have owned almost 20 bay boats in one brand or another since 2003, about when the phrase "bay boat" was coined. I have also owned over a dozen flats fishing boats and a bunch of center consoles. Safe to say I have learned allot and defined for myself the things…

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Mercury Racing 400R V-10 Outboard

Yellowfin 24 CE Mercury Racing 400R
Yellowfin 24 CE Powered by Mercury Racing 400R. Capt. Steven Lamps New Bay Boat. Being towed by the Dream Catcher Charters mule Ford F 350.

Application is everything in any boating set up. How you are going to use it? This is a big question everyone that is selecting power for a boat should ask themselves. There are no perfect solutions but some come pretty darn close. The Mercury Racing 400r on my Yellowfin 24 CE bay boat is pretty darn close to perfect. The Yellowfin 24 CE is a very light weight bay boat. Almost an all carbon fiber…

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Beavertail Elite Flats Fishing Skiff Boat

Beavertail Elite 17 flats fishing poling technical skiff boat Choices are hard to make these days when it comes to flats fishing skiffs. There are so many out there and the conveluted ideas behind them seem to be endless. It's All About Choices Having the best of the best when it comes to my bay boats I wanted to get myself a great technical poling skiff. I have been fishing flats fishing boats since…

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Mercury 150 Fourstroke Outboard Motor

Mercury 150 Fourstroke twins
Our Proline 28 with the Mercury 150 Fourstroke outboards

This is a post I made back in 2012. We have been using the Mercury 150 Fourstroke Outboard motor ever since. We no longer have the SeaHunt featured in this post but now we use the 150s on our 28 ft ProLine for a perfect solution on that boat. In the 6000 plus hours of operation at Dream Catcher Charters we have on the Mecury 150 four stroke we have found nothing I don't…

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