Balsa-cored hull and deck on a 1982 boat: moisture meter and a cored-hull surveyor before anything else.
Spade rudder; we prefer a skeg for windvane work.
30 gal of fuel is thin, and it is in BC.
The honest take
The Niagara 35 is a better-built Islander 36 with more water and less fuel. The entire buy decision is the core survey; if it is dry, this is one of the nicest boats in the article.
The Pact
We'll always be honest about gear. The good and the bad.
Most reviews you read only tell you what's great about a product. Ours tell you what's wrong with it too — where it fails, who shouldn't buy it, and when the cheaper option is the smarter one.
Every verdict comes from actually fishing the gear, not reading a spec sheet. When we get it wrong, the correction runs as loud as the original take.
The good and the badWe tell you what's wrong with a product, not just what's right.
Real water, real testingVerdicts come from actually fishing it — not a press release.
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