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Originally Posted by dan4836

The 23 Seacraft is one of my favorite but I never was able to sea trial...

As soon as you get a little bigger than the V20, the power you need to push goes way up and so does the fuel bill.

I bought my V20 because I can run this all over without worrying about the fuel bill. I have the Mercruiser 470 and this is by far the most economic boat I ran. Before my V20, I had a 17 Aquasport with a Evinrude 88SPL. My V gets about twice the fuel economy.

I was out with a friend in a 24 Rampage - the boat is a tank but with a single V8 it's slow and terrible on the MPG.

I don't know about this. I had to downsize and dropped down to a 16 foot JON boat. Even with my old school 35HP JOHNSON 2 smoke, I still only burned a bit over 3 gallons for 4 hours of riding on the river. I miss having a big boat, but the fuel bill of this JON boat is NICE in comparison. At $5 a gallon for ethanol free down here, I will stay downsized for awhile. It's bad enough having to put that $4 a gallon go juice in the BURB just to get out on the water.