LAriverratt

a true answer is gonna come from a few with a lot of seat time...that person has to have been in all kinds of different water conditions with each hull

.the fit and finish most of us can see that and make that judgment ourselves.

Expensive Date

Pantera, the fuel savings are tremendous.....because you never get the boat.

Interceptor

There's the possibility that most of us don't really know what the best V bottom is or why it is and top speed isn't the answer.
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Keith Atlanta

Speedboats - I think Outerlimits is probably putting the most engineering effort into it. They apply a lot of fancy schmancy FEA and hydrodynamics engineering and have an engineer on staff (or at least they did). NorTech hasnt really changed their hull design have they? The decks have changed but the bottoms havent.

Center Consoles - While you are on V-bottoms dont forget efforts from CC guys like Midnight Express. They have some pretty impressive engineering for CC's.

Luxury - Merritt Yachts are using a LOT of composites and are running 10, 12, 15 knots faster than competitors with similar power and faster than themselves 5 years ago.

32hustlin

Personally, I like outer limits. And yes fountain still holds the kilo record. My rationale? I'd trade my left nut for a new 43sv I don't know if I could say that about any other boat out there.

Sydwayz

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Too many parameters too quantify singular answers...

Foot for foot?
---(20 footers to 80 footers)

MPH for MPH?
---(stock power vs. [Mercury] production big power vs. exotic power)

Dollar for dollar?
---(working man's boat vs. unlimited budget)

CC vs. traditional go-fast sport-deck vs. hybrid
---(see Nor-Tech Monte Carlo, Cigarette Huntress/Opens, and several MCOB configs; which all blur lines)

And let's not even get into rough water handling because we can't even agree as a forum on what constitutes rough water.

I would have said Production vs. Custom builder as well; but there really are no production builders left. And the only factor that might enable such a conversation are specialty market dealers that are custom ordering custom boats from custom builders to have "in stock/on-hand" as demos to promote selling more custom boats.

Narrow down the scope a bit, MAYBE (yet extremely unlikely) this could be a meaningful discussion.

precisiondetails

Today- OL hands down!

precisiondetails

I'm going to go start the same type threads for cats now!! Hey it's winter and it blows lol

the deep

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Did somebody say cat.......

precisiondetails

Yes I just started the thread, go check it out, I'm not hi jacking this one