...just hope 'ya don't tangle w/something just on one side ???...cheer

Ok, you can put skimmers on but to catch any descent amount of shrimp, you need fairly large skimmers, I am a comm fisherman and have had two outboard boat with skimmers, now I have a big skiff. That size boat probably wouldn't effectivly handle anything over say a 10 to 12 foot frame, and if it did then I wouldnt try over 6 foot deep. Also, if your bottom isn't 6 foot I wouldn't even bother, I have a 8 foot bottom on my last outboard boat with 14x8 frame, it did good, but it was a 24 footer with a 115 four stroke. Caught brownies fine, whites were hard cause you can't push fast enough. The 60 would probably not handle the load good at all. Honestly I would stick to a 16 or 25 foot trawl, I used to drag a 25 witha 16 foot flat witha 50 johnson and I caught shrimp. Skimmers are great but they need to be ona boat that can handle it. Yours will probably wanna roll easy too, so bear that in mind. So good luck in your decision but if you really want a skimmer rig get minimum of a1980 carolina skiff to the 2480 carolina. Those can handle skimmers welll and o catch shrimp. I made a living with mine for 3 years before I bought a big skiff. good luck

Your flat will handle a small set of skimmers pushed in shallow bays just fine. I've had several sets of skimmers and small wingnets on several small boats and have done really well. You could handle a set of 6x8s real easy and you can usually make it where they fold back so you don't have to remove. You could handle about a 7x10 being the biggest made out of 1' schedule 80. If your doing it for your own freezer the 6x8s are the ticket because they are so easy to handle. I've had many 300 to 400 lb nights with 6x8s. My first rig was a 15 x 3 1/2 ft duracraft flat with a 25 tiller with 6x8s and caught plenty. I then went to a 16x4 flat with a 50 and 10x7 skimmers and would wreck them. You obviously don't want to push in open deep water but rather in shallow ponds such as Port Sulphur, Myrtle Grove, Cocodrie etc. I found a little canal 5 ft deep and less than 40 ft wide near chef that drained some duck ponds. I would push it with a 30 horse and catch several hundred pounds of big whites in a couple passes when they would get in there. My nets would almost touch both banks. Haven't caught them in there in a few years as the shrimp have been way off. I recommend 1 1/2' webbing if your gonna have just one set for both seasons or 1 5/8' if you want better quality shrimp. Hope this helps.

Your boat is fine, my first setup was a 12x4 flat w/25hp pushing 10x6 skimmers