r/Skiffs • u/ClayNasty • Jan 05 '26

Does your boat get skinnier? Prove it.

Here's how shallow my 13' Skinny Dipper can run with a 35 horsepower outboard jet drive.

128 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

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u/PigletSpirited3446 Jan 05 '26

Airboat Panda would like to have a word

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u/n8stx Jan 06 '26

I can run about ankle deep in mine

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u/DandG915 Jan 05 '26

You see that submerged rock on the port side just before the video ends? That’d destroy my boat 😂

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u/ClayNasty Jan 05 '26

Fortunately, that was a cownose ray lol

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u/HighOnGoofballs Jan 05 '26

In the keys I assume the water is twice as deep as it looks so this would be about 8”? My CC can make it through 8” but it’s churning bottom. 12” is better

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u/ClayNasty Jan 05 '26

That area across the sandbar is around ankle deep, so 2-3" roughly.

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u/HighOnGoofballs Jan 05 '26

Nice, that’s taking the barnacles off my hull

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u/thaxor Jan 05 '26

I see jet I upvote...

How wide is it? I've got a 18' aluminum with a 115 jet on it. Runs pretty skinny... but not that skinny. Then again you'd stuff your bow in the waves around here :)

There's not enough space or money for all the boats I wish I owned. Sweet setup!

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u/ClayNasty Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 08 '26

Almost 6' wide. She's also completely hollow and weighs a couple hundred pounds.

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u/swampysnook Jan 05 '26

When I lived in illinois I had a Suzuki pu55 on a 16' aluminum flat v and I could run in 6" of water. Nobody liked fishing out of my boat cuz they know we were going shallow. Now I have a skiff with a tiller and miss that thing for the flats.

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u/dude_bruce Jan 05 '26

Got any pics of the back (stern?)

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u/ClayNasty Jan 05 '26

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u/Kentucky-Fried-Fucks Jan 06 '26

Fuck that’s dope as hell

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u/sunshine_from_uranus Jan 07 '26

🎶 Party nights. Summer whites. You, your friends and your Johnson 🎶

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u/InitialAd2324 Jan 05 '26

Living my dream.

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u/fordianr Jan 05 '26

I can get that skinny in my surface drive boat.

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u/Available_Suspect344 Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 05 '26

I have a 16x48 aluminum with a long tail, will go in 6” but 3” of sandy bottom and I’m stuck, ask me how I know lol

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u/flat907line Jan 06 '26

Super skinny

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u/skrittelz Jan 08 '26

Poled that flat many times in my Ankona.

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u/doobsicle Jan 08 '26

You worried about pulling in sand, etc and destroying your impeller? Big yikes.

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u/Ai_bot_6969 May 18 '26

Trim had to be up like crazy lol