I'm sure some wonder in the back of their head why? But it's new, different and in a lot of cases that extra "foot" can mean a lot. But when you have an expendable income it's easy to say I want something different whereas for the average joe it's hard to fathom changing what were running now. But if you want that little extra foot you will go out of your way to get another awesome product from AT. Just my 2cents

stationing for extension.

Chop-chop.

It's not so much the "one foot" but the extra space in the cockpit, which now will be 8", and the extra room to get around the engines, which is now 4" in front of. Those were two of my biggest gripes.

And, of course, you have the benefit of the DDC step-hull.

Both big pluses.

Looks great, itchy very itchy but great!

Love the project, always wanted to build one from scratch.

Tap Tap Tap anybody in there?

Just curious why only Mercury power? If a customer wanted big power from an aftermarket company would you say no? Looking forward to seeing how this boat comes out, should be a very nice boat. Good luck.

This is an interesting question. We've built custom power boats before; but things never turn out exactly as planned. I could answer more, but I'll let Pat explain it better.