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We fished out of one of the coolest aluminum fishing boats this past spring when we were invited to get a sneak peek at the new Xpress Boats Xclusive Series X19. It’s a 19-foot all-welded aluminum boat with a whopping 95-inch beam capable of handling a big motor, up to a 200-horsepower outboard with hydraulic steering.
It has a ton of storage, rides awesome and fishes great. We were extremely impressed though at how well the boat handles at high speed. We had it up to 60 mph and couldn’t believe how well it cornered and handled choppy water.
It was an absolute blast to drive with their Hyper Lift Hull that lets it get up on pad and run like a fiberglass boat, while still having the durability and toughness of an aluminum boat. Xpress is the original all-welded boat, so they have a ton of experience in making rock-solid hulls that perform more like fiberglass than aluminum.
Their Xclusive Series is geared towards the avid angler and gives the angler big boat options in a smaller aluminum package.
Check out all the details on this new boat at XpressBoats.com.
Here are some of the photos we shot on our test run of the boat with our friends from Xpress Boats and Yamaha Outboards.
Currently working as Senior Advisor to Wired2fish. Former COO and Publisher, Jason Sealock came to Wired2fish shortly after inception in January of 2010. Prior to that he was the Editor-in-Chief of FLW Outdoors Magazines. He worked up from Associate Editor to Photo Editor and finally Editor in Chief of three magazines FLW Bass, FLW Walleye and FLW Saltwater. He set the content direction for Wired2fish while also working directly with programmers, consultants and industry partners.
Sealock has been an avid angler for the better part of 40 years and has been writing and shooting fishing and outdoors content for more than 25 years. He is an expert with fishing electronics and technologies and an accomplished angler, photographer, writer and editor. He has taught a lot of people to find fish with their electronics and has been instrumental in teaching these technologies to the masses. He's also the industry authority on new fishing tackle and has personally reviewed more than 10,000 products in his tenure.
He has a 30-year background in information technologies and was a certified engineer for a time in Microsoft, Novell, Cisco, and HP.
He mostly fishes for bass and panfish around the house. He has, however, caught fish in 42 of the 50 states in the US as well as Costa Rica, Mexico, and Canada and hopes to soon add Finland, Japan, Africa and Australia to his list.
