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if you look real close at those boats, you will notice they are the same as the 24 Albemarle, and the early 25 Contenders. They did modify them a little, but basically the same hull. I found out later( we had a hard time keeping the bow down on the 233 we ran) that Formula added soem hook between the outer strakes on later models that made them a little slower, but they would ride a bunch better, if i had known that when we ran that 73 233, i would have added some wedges to the hull. Just look betwen the outer strakes and you'll see the hook at the transom where it fills in betwen the strakes. Albemarle and Contender just added a foot or two to achieve the same thing without loosing the speed. We had our 233 in a lift right beside a 24 Albe, it was funny looking at the two boats, from the rail down they were the same