This is my third summer with this boat.
Pretty comfortable most of the time.
Not sure it will ever "plane out" but at 280 pounds I don't have to hike out far to keep sailing it flat.
Mascoma Lake in Enfield, NH.
Boat is pretty dry. I haven't been able to weigh it for sure, but it has been properly stored with the plug out.
Once you get the fish up on a plane doubling hull speed is possible.
The first time you "pop" the hull up and start passing everything in sight is a real thrill.
"A lightly loaded 40-footer can be on plane, defined as a rise in the center of gravity with a clean wake astern, at 11 knots. The same 40-footer with 10,000 pounds of fish in the hold might not be on plane until it’s making 16 or 17 knots."
My fish has no HIN (pre November 1972). But it does have the storage compartment (post 1970).
Originally had one triple blue stripe diagonally across the bow starboard to port. You guess the exact year.
Well you narrowed it down quite a bit, but in fact it's a 1971.