John, you are going to have a good time with your boat. I don't know anything about the flotation part and was not commenting on that particular issue. but later comments on this topic really made my point, and those of us that gun the Delaware bay marshes will know what I mean. Someone qustioned the ability to do 30mph on creeks. It is no problem in many of them. 95% of these creeks are un-marked and have only natural channels. That may be hard to believe for someone from New england, but if my boat went 30, there are several creeks I could open it up to that speed in, though not for great distances. I can easily go 10-12 miles at mid-tide or higher without going out on the bay. These marshes are anywhere between 1-4 miles from the bay, with creeks everywhere. They all pretty much connect if you know how to get around and understand the tides. And there are no rocks, unless somebody dumped one somewhere. There are old pilings though, but you just have to know where they are. So when I say that you can use that speed, and that it is not unsafe to do so, that is what I mean. You don't have to believe me, but most people that know those marshes will agree. I will also say that nobody runs across Delaware Bay. I am not sure how far it is to Delaware, but you can't see it across the water from where I am, so I think everybody would agree that you wouldn't be crossing the bay to go anywhere. The Delaware Bay marshes are not at all like the coastal marshes behind the barrier islands, like Barnegat or Little Egg Harbor. They might look similar on google earth, but they are way different, from the tide height to the bottom and general topography. Delaware Bay marshes have higher tides in general and are much muddier, and they have extensive mud flats, whereas the coastal marshes generally have more salt ponds and firmer footing. The marshes generally are not as deep, by that I mean in from the bay, along the coast also. The creeks in the Delaware Bay marshes tend to ultimately drain the higher ground, creeks in the coastal marshes do but also tend to generally just intersect with each other and may just traverse a marsh as opposed to draining a watershed. If you are to go up the coastal rivers, like the Mullica or Egg harbor, then that is obviously not the case, but with the marshes along the edge of the coastal bays I think that is generally true.
So.....your boat is ideally suited to and has great utility on the area you are hunting. It hides well due to it's low profile, which you really need when the water is mid-tide or higher. And if you have a 3 or 4 mile run, you can get there really fast, and even more importantly, you can get back really fast when you are cold!
