Here's a rather long link to web site for Cabela's, an outfitter selling in 
several U.S. states. This page describes their Jon boats and if you click on 
the link under each picture, you come to a detailed page giving critical data 
about each design, with metric quantities in parentheses.
  http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/community/aboutus/
retail-detail.jhtml?detailedInformationURL=..%2F..%2F..%2Fcontent%2Fcommunity
%2Faboutus%2Fretail%2Fretail_stores%2Fboat_2%2Flowe%2Fjons.jhtm

If this link does not work, try going to
   http://www.cabelas.com/
and then clicking, in order,
   About Us >  Retail Stores >  Boats and Trailers >  Lowe > Jon  boats

One might fuss about lack of leading zeros or spaces before unit symbols or 
one might champion a chain with only U.S. stores, which provides metric 
information. They even give maximum engine ratings in kilowatts (though they 
forgot to put the W in uppercase and wrote kw instead of kW). I'm in favor of 
applauding them, for the most part. I have also commented on the above 
technical points via their web page.

I note with pleasure that Cabela's also provide their clothing sizing charts 
in metric units.

Jim

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James R. Frysinger
Lifetime Certified Advanced Metrication Specialist
Senior Member, IEEE

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