The Atlas Boatworks 23F: Simple by Design
The Atlas Boatworks 23F is a clean, classic-looking bay boat with an intentionally simple layout. Higher gunnels are an aesthetic nod to a bygone era and keep you, kids, guests, or clients comfortably in the boat. A 10” draft rivals most flats or bay boats and gets you to the fish. With this center console boat outfitted specifically for you, you get to choose what is important and skip what is not.
Let us build you a boat
Atlas Boatworks is a semi-custom boat builder. That means that we generally build the hull, center console, and livewell/leaning post the same every time. Then you come in and decide everything else.
The Atlas to your hull
Imagine having a guidebook to your exact boat, customized just for you.
What is a "Flatback?"
Flatback is the nickname given to some of the first center console fishing boats that were produced in the late 1960’s. The nickname came from the almost total lack of deadrise at the back of the boat (Check out our blog post on deadrise here). The bottom was essentially flat at the back, hence “Flatback.” Easy enough, right?
Why would we want to bring back a 50-year-old design?
How Simple is Too Simple?
The 23F has been intentionally designed to be fished hard and then sprayed down and put away. We certainly aren’t interested in polishing anything with a diaper. Just because we decided to go without it doesn’t mean we didn’t think about it. To that end, nothing on the 23F is by accident. We have opinions on everything. Hatches, hull color, seating, insulated fishboxes, cooler seats, jackplates, transoms, powder coating… nothing is safe.
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