The Florida Cracker

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MEAN GREEN

THE FLORIDA CRACKER

For so many modern American motorists, there's no car like a truck. Their mix of can-do ruggedness, handsome style, and high level of available creature comforts make trucks indispensable.

Airboats

When some ingenious gentleman crossed the airplane and a boat some sixty years ago, he did not realize the rip-roaring hybrid, the airboat, would soon be shattering the stillness of hundreds of swamps, steams, rivers, and lakes throughout the world. depending on the engine and the propeller mounted above board for propulsion, and maintaining direction control by an air rudder, the airboat has nothing below the keel line to snag or catch on any twigs, limbs, rocks, plants or stumps below the water and thus is able to travel in shallow water, swamps, weed and plant choked and debris-filled waterways, over mud flats, and bars sub-merged logs, tussocks, grass fields and levees. it is not wonder then that this versatile craft has for years been dependably solving transportation problems for duck hunters, fisherman, frog hunters, state and federal wildlife conservational departments, the U.S. Armed Forces, U.S. Engineers, major oil companies, utility companies, law enforcement agencies, geologist and other individuals who have a need for a boat that will travel in either deep water, very little water or even no water.

Airboats have such diverse uses as weed and insect control, search and rescue, mail delivery, commercial fishing, commercial transportation, geological surveys, alligator hunting, water skiing ??(not recommended), as well as the conventional uses of the outdoors-man for fishing and transportation into remote hunting areas.