Gordo,

My understanding is that the earliest ones were straight bottommed and tended to porpoise a little. Nothing major, just barely noticible and could easily be fixed using a little tab/trim.

The twin-steps rode great and were quite fast. No problems with that hull.

Then either of the above two, some had pads, some didn't. I heard the ones with pads didn't handle so great, but only what I heard.

496ho t/s 30 will run 79 all day long... sea trialed the one at offshore performance before i bought my 35... any one who say the cockpit is to small... just lookj at how small the tigers cockpit is for 4x $$$... geat boat i just went bigger because of the intested rates at the time but maint $$$ will be much less... imj spending 10k on motor rebuldr now