"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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It's really a question of adjusting my thinking on the whole subject.
This will be the last large/big boat I buy so I need to put some
thought into it.

That's what they all say.


I was spoiled by the performance of the Contender and the outboard set
up on that boat. I had speed up the wazoo when I wanted to run it
flat out, yet it was still efficient on fuel and at cruise, performed
extremely well.


You have to rethink your expectations. Could you comfortably live aboard
the Contender for two or three weeks at a time? Kick back on the couch and
watch a football game? Take a nooner in a comfortable, air conditioned
stateroom while Mrs. Wave prepares a full course meal in the galley?

Eisboch