Mother nature was finally nice to us up here in southern Ontario and took my family out fishing for the first time on our new to us 13' BW. The boat handled as expected but here are a few things I'd like to mention and hear some feedback on: 1) I learned not to use reverse whenever possible due to the short transom...swamped the boat pretty bad! The entire splash well was over flowing into the boat and gas / battery where floating 2) My gas mileage was not as good as I expected. I estimated 30km at either 3/4 throttle or WOT and burnt threw 5.5 gallon tank, made it back to launch on fumes, outboard is a 1994 two stroke 40hp Force. Roughly 425lbs of cargo. 3) My hole shot varied throughout the day, some where extremely snappy and got onto plane very fast vs. others where painfully slow but eventually it got up onto plane (outboard does have electric trim/tilt) Here is a picture of my son catching his first perch of the day http://www.allcarson.ca/pics/CanadaDa...daDay1.jpg