I had an albemarle 27 with straight inboard 350 chevys and my take on the inboards vis a vis outboards is fishing room taken up by motor boxes etc and they are all *** heavy and difficult to dock etc even with twin screws. On the fuel thing they do suck up the gas. On the albemarle it was a toss up as to what to name it...thirsty or double trouble..if I can help it I will never have another inboard or I/O..A friend of mine has a 31 ft lobster boat that he is spending a fortune on with a new cat diesel engine and transmission etc etc etc. and with about 330 hp will be luicky to get 22 mph out of it . I told him that if it were me I would bracket that puppy and put twin 150's on it off ebay for $5K and be done with it and shed a few thousand pounds of weight and gain about 10 MPH which would push that old semi-displacement hull at around 32 or so...but thats just me...Frank