Owning A Boat In College

[Justin Spencer]

Probably not what you were wanting to hear. But it's all good advise. Stuff happens in 50/50 partnerships. So a 4-way partnership is pretty risky, but you'll probably do it anyway. Hope for the best for all of you. And Good Fishing. Just get your studies done first!

I was thinking the same thing, I doubt I would have listened at that age, but it is good advice. A canoe or johnboat with a trolling motor would be the way to go if you must do something. No real expenses once the boat is bought, and not enough money involved for anyone to get hurt too bad. I fished a bunch in college but it was all from a johnboat with oars, or a canoe, and of course it was done after homework was completed and tests were studied for. You'll find great fishing near boat ramps because everybody uses their bass boats to get away from the ramp.

[ness]

I fished a bunch in college but it was all from a johnboat with oars, or a canoe, and of course it was done after homework was completed and tests were studied for.

I'm calling BS

[cnr]

Get a second-hand canoe and enjoy all the great Ozark streams. Better fishing and much cheaper. The gravel bar camping can't be beat either…just be respectful of the adjacent land owners!!!

[ColdWaterFshr]

When I was in sophomore in college, I had the EXACT same situation come up. I had 3 room-mates and they were all flaky, lazy as he11, perpetually cash-poor, and absolute masters of theft. Ramen noodles, girlfriends, and beer were commonly stolen with empty promises of re-payment and with ZERO conscience or regard for personal property. Cornered with more than circumstantial evidence on many occasions, my accusations and outrage at such acts of thievery were often responded to with far less than a formal apology, and more usually met with laughter. And no one, I mean no one ever did the f'n dishes or cleaned the toilet. Yes, Hoffmeyer, I'm talking to you if you are out there reading this post right now.

You will learn these lessons in due time, but I tend to agree with the others.

But despite a high degree of mistrust and loathing for one another, my college chums and I all shared in our love of fishing and competing on the BASS tournament circuit and the dream of having our own boat was very real. We came up with a plan and stuck to it. By the fall semester of our senior year, we had saved enough aluminum cans from beer drinking, convinced as we were that we could rid the world of the scourge of alcohol by drinking ALL of it, we had saved something like 700 lbs of aluminum. Enough to buy some plywood and a working 3-hp outboard. Over the course of a weekend we built the SS Natalie Lite. Here is a picture of us on our maiden voyage on Lake Springfield:

[Justin Spencer]

When I was in sophomore in college, I had the EXACT same situation come up. I had 3 room-mates and they were all flaky, lazy as he11, perpetually cash-poor, and absolute masters of theft. Ramen noodles, girlfriends, and beer were commonly stolen with empty promises of re-payment and with ZERO conscience or regard for personal property. Cornered with more than circumstantial evidence on many occasions, my accusations and outrage at such acts of thievery were often responded to with far less than a formal apology, and more usually met with laughter. And no one, I mean no one ever did the f'n dishes or cleaned the toilet. Yes, Hoffmeyer, I'm talking to you if you are out there reading this post right now.

You will learn these lessons in due time, but I tend to agree with the others.

But despite a high degree of mistrust and loathing for one another, my college chums and I all shared in our love of fishing and competing on the BASS tournament circuit and the dream of having our own boat was very real. We came up with a plan and stuck to it. By the fall semester of our senior year, we had saved enough aluminum cans from beer drinking, convinced as we were that we could rid the world of the scourge of alcohol by drinking ALL of it, we had saved something like 700 lbs of aluminum. Enough to buy some plywood and a working 3-hp outboard. Over the course of a weekend we built the SS Natalie Lite. Here is a picture of us on our maiden voyage on Lake Springfield:

Perhaps the best post ever!

[Terrierman]

I think you ought to use half the money you make at your two summer jobs, get a 16' jon and a 9.9, haul it around in the back of your pickup that you saved up for and bought yourself and fish every chance you get. But don't go partners with anybody on anything ever.

[ness]

Good call on the life jackets, Dallas.

[Simonthegolfer]

I think you ought to use half the money you make at your two summer jobs, get a 16' jon and a 9.9, haul it around in the back of your pickup that you saved up for and bought yourself and fish every chance you get. But don't go partners with anybody on anything ever.

One of the guys already has an aluminum John boat. It's really long too. I thought about taking that down there but it has no motor on it. How would that be setup to fish a lake?

[Old plug]

i have a example of sharing. i know two brothers very well that bought a bass boat together. about 3 yrs later the one brother decided he wanted a pontoon boat.he went and sold the boat bought the pontoon and never told his brother he was doing it.

[moguy1973]

As everyone else said, splitting the boat is a bad idea, especially if it's 4 people. It would be hard for 4 people to fish out of a boat unless it's a pretty big boat (also read as expensive). So that means all of you won't be able to take it out at the same time unless it's a bigger boat. So someone is getting the shaft if two of you are taking it out more than the other two.