JJ30

We'll build you a brand new 24 'Banana Boat. If you aren't familiar with these they are actually a real deal 24' cigarette, 100% Aronow designed. Google Banana boats for their website. Charlie has good info on there about the whole history of them.

Jason,

Nothing personel 353

Super Boat Long Island good boat in that size

Rookie

iTrader: (4)

Always had fun on Lake MI in my friends 22 Chaparral Villain.

Ing

22 Velocity Outboard has a lot of usable space and cuddy for its size. (The Regal Velocity's were not built to the same standards as Steve Stepp's builds)
24 Superboat
22-24 Progression
24 Pantera
22 Sonic (very rare)
23 Kryptonite (another very rare)
Good luck

Speed Junkies

Care to expand please? That is the WHOLE idea of asking questions is to find the good and the bad of each? I've been looking over various site and noticed that a friend actually had a Spectre back around 2005 and posted here. Will need to get intouch with him for sure.

Pachanga, seem what I have seen that they run nice, handles some big water and performs pretty well. Seems that top ends usually mid to high 60's. Smallest of the 3.

Regal Velocity, fastest and lightest of the 3, also seems the cheapest quality of the 3. More of a "drivers" boat with the pad and doesn't handle big water like the other 2. Seems to be able to run in the 70's usually.

Senza Septre, Biggest of the 3, Only one with the stepped hull DDC, Seems to be able to handle big water and appears to be a quality boat. seems to be in between the other 2 for top speed, mid to high 60's.

Not looking for a NEW boat. Looking for a good USED one as a stepping stone to something bigger in 5/8 yrs. At that time maybe a Top Gun, Donzi ZX or even an Apache???? See at that time. But something about 33 or bigger with twins, stepped hull and can weekend on if the need comes up.

At this time, I'm REALLY leaning towards the 25 Stepped hull Senza. Only issue I'm seeing is there's not a lot out there/limited supply. I do remember looking at them new back in '92/94 time. So bit sentimental too. Plus wife and son would like the more spacious cuddy.

Thanks for the help guys.

KEEP THE INFO COMING

floatingphil

https://www.kijiji.ca/v-powerboat-mo...ationFlag=true

For carting a toddler around Lake Erie this Baja Force would be hard to beat for the price providing it passed a survey. Plus it's only a couple of hours from Port dover.

DBleil89

Why not a Formula? They have the 223 and 242. Both are good in the rough water. The 223 will be faster with the 22° hull, but the 242 rides better. Good build quality and they hold their value. Not to mention there is always a few for sale at almost any given time.

Excess

Check out my 25' AT Tantrum in the classifieds.
https://www.offshoreonly.com/classif...um-o75234.html
Great for Erie, solid as brick s__t house.
And you will sell it in 5-ish years for what you buy it for today

MonkeySea2

I'd agree with the 25' AT. Or a 26' Sonic. The old Chaparral Villain 3 was a really cool 23' with decent build quality. There also was a Rinker 23' that was pretty fast with a 454 or 502. Stingray 23' was very fast with a 502. Just trying to think of the boats that could be a little more family friendly. One boat I always loved the look of was the Crownline 225 CCR. I liked the lines.

Top Banana

I have been getting calls and texts regarding Jason's post here.

Let me try to clear it up a bit. Jason is the GM at Outerlimits and he and I have been talking about Outerlimits, building some Banana Boats in the future.

We have the 24 foot center console molds and we may use that as the first run.

We tossed everything around from the old Cigarette layup that Don gave me back in the 70's, to a whole new look with a single step and a build in Epoxy.

All boats will be outboard powered only..... probably on a bracket..... to open up the interior space more.

Our intent is to finalize the plan ...... and then see what real interest there is.

Potential sales to Top Gun owners who would like a mini simple easy to use boat, out of the Cigarette mold.

Stay Tuned....................