OL40SVX

The Gladiator is perfect for that water! And outboard cat or a stock powered I/O Cat are perfect as well but you then have the insurance to deal with. In 3-4's you can run our 35 Motion faster than you could a Gladiator. For a Vee bottom though you cant beat a Gladiator for the money!

Velocity Tom

Thanks for the info.

Catmando

For speed; 42Fountain PR Merc 700/NXT1. Same hull as the raceboat.

For affordable luxury;

43 Nor-Tech twin Ilmor 710/Indy drive


For best fuel mileage;

Eliminator 43 Eagle(Larry Smith Scarab) twin Cummins 480 diesels/ASD8 drives.

OL40SVX

None of those are sit down vee's or what he is looking for??? There are not nearly as many Fountain PR's built compared to the Donzi or Cigarette. They will also be very hard on the drives.

Jassman

what defines best..??????. Im not a fan of the Cig..very loose boat...I like the Donzi better than the Fountain...but prefer this boat for it's edgy look, conviences and just more room all the way around.

http://www.nor-techboats.com/boats.php?id=5&type=vbo

Catmando

Well you're right except for the Fountain...

OL40SVX

This thread is about affordable sit down vee's if everyone would go back and read Tom's initial post. That Nor-Tech is cool but still not really a true sit down.

lavey jr

How about the Laveycraft 39' EVO

customryder

zrc getting hard to find a good one.

Young Performance

I built some power in a 34' quite a few years back. Really good running boat. The motors maybe made 550 or so and the boat would break 85 mph. It had 3 sit down bolsters across the front and a bench in the back. Really great handling boat. The boat was quite a few years old....maybe mid to late 90's
Eddie