All of the details and common question I get on the Panga. Sorry for the multi-cut video, I haven't had time to do it all in one sitting Special thanks for all the help and finding me the right hull goes to Rod @ www.bayoutoblue...
I grew up using the wood version of a Panga. We called them Skip Jacks. Later years I discovered the Panga. Best damn boat design ever!! I have taken on serious storms and here I is. LOVE THOSE BOATS!! They plane and run beautiful! Its also takes less HP to run them boats. They are just an awesome design. Had a 70 HP it would scare ya . I went back to 25 HP. This was on an 18-footer wood.
have a 25 lowside and you are absolutely right about weight... of which, you are loaded up. Do you, but id personally lose the hardtop and go to canvas and lose the third screen. Two is plenty. Then again you are saving weight with the 140. I run a yamaha 150 sho. Theres quite a few places to save weight. Lithium batteries perhaps
The hard top is made out of the green board, the same thing they use for windmill blades, the whole top is less than 7 lbs, and because it's rigid it needs less aluminum than a soft top. Kinda a wash on weight, and it will last 10x longer. I've moved to lithium tm and house batteries, I think it's spot on for weight now. Next mod will be a different live scope mount...
Damn sweet build, one of the best pangas I’ve seen. Does it still give good fuel economy after all the additional weight? Or do you feel like it defeats the purpose of a panga?
I was careful to minimize any weight possible when adding to it, I switched to lithium batteries and with the loss of weight repitched to a 22p. 4200 rpm 25 mph 6.9 mph, I say I've kept the economy
You started with a simple and efficient low stress low maintenance perfectly performing panga And spent every dollar possible to create a heavy out of balance fuel hog of a typical American center console that your gonna spend more time maintaining all the systems in than Actuslly using.
@@rusty_adv i'm like you… I run two bilge pumps, and I only go out on small lakes and rivers lol. If I was going 50 miles offshore I would definitely have 3. Dirt cheap and when you need one because you got swamped or blew a fitting there's no disadvantage in having 3 churning away
Don't think because it's narrow it's very tippy. The flat bottom towards the stern slows the rocking like a fan going up and down . I'm 260 pounds and stand on the side of the boat in a choppy inlet and it hardly tips . Going thru inlets off Long Island I steer this boat thru the inlet with boat wakes coming every which way on a crowded weekend and my 25 Panga steers straight thru the choppy waves and is very stable. 25 Foot Eduardono Corvina Panga Boats are highly refined compared to Immensa Pangas.
It's great in Texas, I can run shallower than most bay boats and up to 100 miles offshore. Yes on rough days a catamaran would be more comfortable, and a flats boat can run shallower. But nothing else will do both as well.
Including trailer and electronics, ready to fish, 42k. Unfortunately the cost of everything has gone up, if I did another one, I would expect around 50-55k. At least operating costs are so low.
A is pronounced AW as in AWFUL in Spanish. Complete shocker I know. It's weird how you can get the second A correct though.... I like your PAWNGAW though. Clean build.
Yes, you are correct, I apologize for my ignorance. I have been corrected and I practice saying it correctly. Hopefully I can do an update video, I have a dive video I need to finish editing and get out. Thanks for your support.
I have a flat bottom skiff too. I'd never take it offshore with our short wave interval., every boat has something it's better at, the skiff is in the flats and rivers. The panga just does everything ok, and efficiently. Speaking of efficiency, check out the video on the Garvey, it gets over 10 mpg...
@@rusty_adv please excuse my idiotic correction. Its your boat, this is the USA, and you should darn well call your boat whatever you like. I am the one who is sorry. Tight lines
Please feel free to watch my other videos, this is about the boat and equipment that I have and my experience with it. All other videos are about the trips. Thanks for watching.
my father an i always used the good sideways drift for bottom fishin while drifting, we could have 4 er 5 rods out when the boat was in a stiff wind, it just stayed sideways lol
