Did it and it worked out for awhile. We boight a used whaler for lake michigan fishing.Since we were both good friends, and worked together, we fished together often.Why did we do it? We both had smaller craft, that weren't safe on big water. He had the tow vechicle, I had the place to park it. Worked well for almost three years.The special equitment we bought together. Sold the boat, and got almost all our money back. The guy that bought it, knew us and the boat.Later the next early spring, they found the boat foundered against a break wall.Our friend fished alone that day, and the coast guard said the PFDs were in the storage compartment. We think he went overboard peeing, that happens a lot accordinfg to the guard.