allfiredup

Your budget will define the boats you look at. I don't have the money tree that people have talked about. Has I said I looked for about 2 years for what my next boat would be. My list of boats I looked at was Cigarette used, MTI used, Skater used Nor-tech new & used, Outerlimits used, Larry Smith Scarab used & having a new one built. If your looking for a boat with med.-big power your going to spend 200-500 depending on new or used & production or custom. I have a 20 year back ground of working on race winning & championship winning Nextel cup cars & I looked at boats using the same thought process I have with building racecars. You should look at any & all brands for yourself & look at the horse's mouth (& lift the tail). The dealers may not like you crawling around & under there boats but when you do you'll find some interesting things. I chose Outerlimits for alot of reasons. But, that is my pick & I'm sure I made the right chose for me.

berns29scarab

if $ werent an object...39 Cigarette Unlimited with 850's and 6's for a V and for a cat would be a 39 MTI with the same power, or a 32 Doug Wright with 700's and NXT's

Expensive Date

Don't forget about a Fountain 35 ex the can be had clean couple of years old for around 100k.I am happy with my Formula but when I step up to a 35 or 38 it will be a Fountain

Magic Medicine

Hard to beat Cig. I definately want one when I grow up!

berns29scarab

2005 fountain executioneer with 496 mag ho's ran 78.6 bangin the limiters

johnfharding

If I had the Green Light today. Let's say a used 29 to 35ft boat. Late 80's early 90's or newer for less than 60,000. I would say this would be the high limit. I no where a 1989 31 Cigarette Bullet for about 38000. That I thought looked a good deal for a good boat, with twin 330hp 454's with supposedly 5 hours on the rebuild and 400 hours on the boat, it had bravo's. Thats just 4,000 dollars more than what I paid for my Cobalt. Something in this age/price range would be perfect.

White Knuckles

Best two offshore big water boats are Apache and Sutphen.

Sydwayz

iTrader: (1)

Make sure you run that particular Bullet that you just mentioned through the Cigarette forum here on OSO. There is a boat that loosely fits that description that happens to be a big POS that a few OSO members have brought up over in the past few years.

johnfharding

http://www.raymondsboats.com/8268.htm

to that boat.

Magic Medicine

Look in the cig forum. That boat is pretty rough and will take some money to big it back. I think it is under powered with 330's. I think you are better off spending more money up front and in the long run you will be farther ahead.

Good luck and have fun shopping!