We are the only know drift boat manufacture that makes a drift boat hull that is certified by the U.S. Coast Guard for flotation. Our drift boat hull was tested in July of 2006 by the U.S. Coast Guard in Solomon’s Island, Maryland for flotation. The Coast Guard did a swamp test on our boat that consisted of drilling multiple holes in our hull, and placing over 5500 lbs of pig iron on our decks, and submerging our boat rod storage and all for 18 hours. We popped back up, and made history.

Our history making SBS roto-molded sandwich of high density HDP floats, and Hog Island, and many others for that matter, feel that is a good thing.

 

The whole quest to go through with the Coast Guard laboratory testing began two summers ago with a customer who flipped one of our boats on a demo with his Grandsons, and told us that since our boat floated, and he was able to complete his trip, and not have to hike out of a deep canyon, that he was sold on our boats. The clincher was this past spring when local legend G-Money went for some old fashion Western Adventure. He is an accomplished kayaker, and a risk taker at the hold’em table… a perfect combination for doing research and development for the home team. Into a stiff wind on a cold, rainy, snowy afternoon in early May he pushed our little boat into the big hole at Warm Springs Rapid on the Yampa River through Dinosaur Canyon on a five day trip. Our boat and G- Money took a long swim, but were by all accounts “happily reunited in a big eddy on river left a ways down”. He was able to immediately recover everything but his ammo can, which mysteriously reappeared two weeks later.