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- The whole deck: 26 types
- Fit Finder: your top 3, with reasons
- Crowd Tally answers
- Shortlist of 3, compare 2
Hullpick · the boat-type chooser
Find the boat that fits your water.
Pontoon or bowrider? Kayak or canoe? Daysailer or a trailerable cruiser? Answer eight plain questions about where you go, who comes along and where the boat will live. Hullpick ranks 26 boat types and tells you why each one fits, or why it does not.
Start the Fit Finder Browse the deck
Types, not brands. Boats, never people. No sign-up.
How it decides
- 01
Your water
Creek, big lake or open ocean rules out more boats than anything else. A type that is not built for your water is set aside, with the reason.
- 02
Your days
Fishing, tubing, sailing, paddling or sleeping aboard. Types built for it score highest; types that can only manage it say so.
- 03
Your life ashore
Roof rack, trailer or slip; how many aboard; how much training and upkeep you want. Each one adds a plain reason, for or against.
A worked example, run by the same engine
Five of us, a small lake, a trailer: mostly tubing, some cruising.
New to boats and hoping for light upkeep. Here is what the Fit Finder says, top three of 17 types that fit (9 set aside).
- 1 Pontoon or tritoon86 / 100 Can do tubing, skiing and wake sports, though it is not its main job.
- 2 Bowrider82 / 100 Built for tubing, skiing and wake sports.More upkeep than you said you want.
- 3 Dual console73 / 100 Built for tubing, skiing and wake sports.Plan on lessons or time with a mentor first.
The deck
All 26 types →Power16 types
Power
Jon boat
- Length
- 10–18 ft
- Aboard
- 1–4
- Draft
- Shallow
- Length
- 14–20 ft
- Aboard
- 2–6
- Draft
- Shallow
- Length
- 17–22 ft
- Aboard
- 1–3
- Draft
- Shallow
- Length
- 18–26 ft
- Aboard
- 3–8
- Draft
- Shallow
Sail6 types
Sail
Sailing dinghy
- Length
- 7–16 ft
- Aboard
- 1–3
- Draft
- Shallow
- Length
- 14–20 ft
- Aboard
- 1–4
- Draft
- Shallow
- Length
- 15–22 ft
- Aboard
- 2–6
- Draft
- Shallow
- Length
- 18–26 ft
- Aboard
- 2–6
- Draft
- Shallow
Paddle4 types
Crowd Tally
Would you own one?
Every type page asks one anonymous question. The board ranks types by a fair, confidence-adjusted share, so three early answers cannot top it.
No type has five answers yet. Open any type in the deck and add yours: the board fills in as answers arrive.
Free to browse. A Pass for serious shopping.
The deck, the top three fits and the tally are free for good. The Hullpick Pass ranks every type, prints your Fit Sheet and lets you compare four boats side by side.
Hullpick Pass
$1.95/month
or $19.50/year
- Fit Finder: all 26 types ranked, every reason
- Printable Fit Sheet with questions to ask
- Shortlist of 12, compare 4 side by side
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- Everything in the Pass for one week
- For a boat show or a weekend of looking
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