From 1958 to 2000 I spent all my free time on the Mississippi river. Raised the kids on the river and now they are raising their Kids on it. I started with a 14 foot Canadian hull and ended with a 42' Gibson House boat and I always pulled my 16" Larson flat boat behind it to get back into the stump fields to fish.
That flat bottom has a low transom and I have been caught in the 3.5 mile wide pool when the winds picked up in that shallow water and raised 4 too 6 foot swells in a hurry that I couldn't look over and that little wide 16' flat bottom always got me into calmer waters.
That's my friend Mike, I lost him 11 years ago; sure miss him still.
Kurt