I've been running boats built by the Ward family for around 50 years. First with Duracraft and then to WarEagle. We abused
them , in my younger, days to no end. If we came to a log road crossing a slue, we would just pour the coal to it and hope it
came down right side up and in water. I was running 1542s with 30 Johnsons on them. They would last me about 10 years
before they would start popping rivets. They shouldn't have lasted a season. Some years they would be run every day of duck
season. Slower, wiser, and with no need for speed, I now have an 860 with a 70 Yamaha rigged for crappie fishing. I bad
wanted the Predator but it wouldn't go in my garage.