Solo Skiff Fishing Boat

Before we even get into the gory details, let’s establish one fact upfront: this boat is ridiculous.

How much can you get done with 150 pounds of high-density polyethylene?

Kayaking? Sure. It’s no ultralight, but it gets the job done. And hey — you can add a short-shaft motor. (As one testimonial says: “I will never paddle a kayak again.”) Maximum horsepower: 5.

Use it for stand-up paddling if you want — or stand-up fishing, stand-up net-throwing, stand-up whatever-you-want-to-do-ing. It’s that stable. Watch the video below if you don’t believe us.

Personally, we’d avoid the turquoise edition for one of the other two available colors: light gray or brown.

In short: If you want to fish, if you want to fish from a boat, if you want to kayak with a minimum of effort, if you just want to stand on top of your boat and enjoy a sunny winter afternoon, ideally in the tropics, this will get the job done beautifully.

Meet your guide

Diane Rommel

Diane Rommel has written for The Wall Street Journal, Outside, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Travel + Leisure, Wallpaper and Afar, as well as The Cut, Buzzfeed, Huffington Post and McSweeney’s. She once drove from London to Mongolia, via Siberia.