"Jim" wrote
I am thinking about buying one or the other for lakes and rivers. Maybe a
rare ICW trip. I know little about either so I'm hoping to get some sort
of discussion going.

I'm kind of partial to the Lowe Tahiti series deck boats. Never owned one,
but there's one down the river a bit that I've coveted on occasion. They
have a deck arrangement similar to a pontoon boat, but with the ability to
go 40mph. And you don't have to worry about hull blisters.