I have a Fountain 24 CS and am looking to upgrade to a 25-26 ft Eagle or Daytona open bow/mid cabin.

What year did Daytonas start having walk-through/open bow options?

What is the performance difference b/t Eagle and Daytona same length same power?

For late 90's, what kind of prices am I looking at?

Anyone know anything about the '98 Eagle Mid-Cabin listed on Eliminator's website?

Thanks

Dan

Had a 97, 25 Eagle and loved it. With a stock 502 was 73 mph. Added a procharger was 83 mph. The Daytonas are fantastic also had a 97 27' Daytona 73 mph. with twin 454Mag, 97 with 1200Hp(the old hull.) No cabin to speak of in the Daytona. Daytona much more stable at high speed. Insurance higher on Daytona. Resale on the Daytona appears easier. You won't be disappointed with any of the boats performance. Major decision is cabin, insuance cost, speed wanted as Daytona gets the nod here.

My vote is always for a daytona. Im on my second first 1998 25 daytona 500hp and curr 2005 27 daytona 525hp. in my mind you have to pick with a single engie if you want fast or faster v or cat.

I had a 2003 26' Eagle with a 496HO that did 72-75 m.p.h. all day long. It was a great boat and was faster than most other boats that had similar size and power. Probably would still have it if I wouldn't of upgraded to a 28' Daytona. The Daytona is a smoother ride but the insurance on it is a killer.

Yeah I think that I am fairly set on a late '90s 25-26ft Eagle mid-cabin. I really only found one that I am interested in so far... the 98 on Eliminator's site. I emailed them yesterday; no response yet.

i found a 2000 listed for $31000... granted it did have a smaller engine, but that seemed much lower priced than most around that year.

Who did you finally get to insure you and how much are you paying - I am taking delivery on my new 28 in Sept, and am shopping insurance.

From what I understand there are more companies that insure cats now but at the time that I got mine insured only Markel was writing policies on them...You might want to sit down... I pay $6500 a year with a 5 month lay-up period.

Well, unfortunately, that's consistent with what I'm seeing. No one wants to touch these cats - especially since it's my first one (even though I've owned 4 other boats for the past 15 years.

Merkel wants me to take the Tres Martin powerboating course down in fla - looking into that now - $2,500 - man, buying the boat was the cheap part...

Check with Allstate and State Farm, there bigest factors are the amount of power in the boat and the total value. Seems to be as long as ya stay under 850hp and 80K they have decent policies.

MIne is through state farm....pay about 450 a year or so.shhhhhhhhh dont tell anyone. it is a 25 daytona with a 454 mag