?????Lund Boat ???????

[shfishinsticks]

What is the brand of this one?? LDS

I believe it is a keelshield.

[Great Scott]

Thanks for the info. LDS

[King_Fish]

Thanks for the info. LDS

Hey - I just remembered, a guy in our Bass Club installed the KeelShield on his new Lund Bass Boat. It will be a couple weeks before I see him again, but let me know and I can take some pictures for you.....

[Great Scott]

Hey - I just remembered, a guy in our Bass Club installed the KeelShield on his new Lund Bass Boat. It will be a couple weeks before I see him again, but let me know and I can take some pictures for you.....

Sounds good to me. LDS

[King_Fish]

Roger, Larry....

[T-Mac]

The pro V bass has a different style of Keel that makes installing the keel fiat on them very difficult. I’ve seen one install on a pro v and it was holding up but there were major gaps within the keel guard that weren’t touching the hull.

Because it was a painted bottom, when I was looking at the pro v bass, I was thinking of bringing it to rhino lining and having them prp and spray a keel guard in their material. It was the only thing I could think of that would conform to the hull of the Lund

Same keel as our other Pro Vs. I don't think you need a keel cap on them. It is a painted aluminum extrusion with rivets.. and a couple scratches on that keel looks better (to me) than a Keel guard wrapped around a center keel.. I never used one on my Pro Vs... but I have seen them several times on Lund ProVs .. Tyees and others.

[Great Scott]

Thanks Terry, It's better to have scratches on the keel
than it is to have them on your upper hull, from some
piece of metal on a courtesy dock. I use my boat, but dont
want it to look used. LDS

[blakesfav]

Thanks Terry, It's better to have scratches on the keel
than it is to have them on your upper hull, from some
piece of metal on a courtesy dock. I use my boat, but dont
want it to look used. LDS

Painted aluminum is just hard to keep looking good like you can with a fiberglass bass boat. It’s hard to tell a three year old Lund from a 15 year old Lund. Pretty much everything you rub against leaves a scratch. That’s why you’ll see the standard answer from Lund guys - let it get scratched and just use it. Things that leave zero marks on a fiberglass boat will leave permanent loss of paint on a Lund.

For guys like me and you that want to keep the boat looking good this is a real problem I haven’t found an answer to yet. I’m thinking about just wrapping mine.

[blakesfav]

Another thing - Lund as a company is used to building boats that mainly are used to fish open water in northern lakes. Pretty much the only structure they see is the dock or the trailer. Fishing the pro v bass in flooded timber in high winds in Texas is a death sentence for the paint job. The boat is built like a tank, but the paint is extremely fragile.

[Great Scott]

I dont like scratches anywhere on my boat, thats
the reason I want to beach it for loading/unloading.
I know what the dock around here will do. A scratch
on the keel is a use mark, one above the water line
is an OH-Shi//. LDS

[T-Mac]

True, dat.

[grandbassslayer]

minimal scratches on mine. The only scratches I see are from friends banging lures off side of boat.

[Great Scott]

If they bang my stuff up, they will be on a verrrrrry short
fishing friends list. I pay attention to how they take care of their
boat and equipment, and if they are rough, they dont have an opportunity
to get close to mine. Call that too picky, well thats the way I am.
LDS

[King_Fish]

If they bang my stuff up, they will be on a verrrrrry short
fishing friends list. I pay attention to how they take care of their
boat and equipment, and if they are rough, they dont have an opportunity
to get close to mine. Call that too picky, well thats the way I am.
LDS

X2...

Get yourself some touch-up paint.

[Car_nut15]

If they bang my stuff up, they will be on a verrrrrry short
fishing friends list. I pay attention to how they take care of their
boat and equipment, and if they are rough, they dont have an opportunity
to get close to mine. Call that too picky, well thats the way I am.
LDS

I'm the same way. I had the front end of my boat done in paint protection film to stop the stone chips. So far its working out great. I plan on doing the gunnels next as the paint on them scratches way to easily.

[Great Scott]

There are several very durable paints on the market, sounds
as though Lund isnt using any of those. LDS

[grandbassslayer]

There are several very durable paints on the market, sounds
as though Lund isnt using any of those. LDS

The lund paint is pretty durable IMO.

[Great Scott]

I'm very easy w/my stuff. I dont like UH Os or
O-shi?s. If I can avoid dock damage, everything
else is down hill. I dont fish shallow very often.
I'll break a bait off before I pull into a bank hazard.
LDS