lakelifeMN
Well-Known Member
Alright team, I need help with my boat build. I wanted to get the 26LXL ESP with a 300. By the time I add in all the features I wanted I'm only about $5,000 over budget. The wife about beat me when she saw MSRP (over $100,000) but I told her the final product wouldn't be that bad. I want to keep the peace here so that means cutting a few more things but that is hard. I want this to be my last boat first and I won't have to make anymore big purchases. Please help. If I downsized to a 250 will I really miss the extra 50? What would my top speed be with the 250?
Some background. 90% of the time it will just be me and my wife with the possibility of our 2 small dogs. We like to go out on all sorts of lakes (in MN lots of small ones) and she doesn't like going faster than 20-25 but I would like to open up the throttle sometimes. Is a 26 too big? I like the idea of a big boat and speaking to a local dealer he said the main difference between the 26 and 24 (in the LX) is you loose room outside of the playpen. I like the idea of a nice big aft deck for the kids to dive and swim off of so smaller rear deck would not be ideal. I could delete popup cleats but that wouldn't make much difference. I have not been to the dealership to see how big a 23-26 is in person but I don't know where cutting would not hurt so much.
Help me Bennington Forum your my only hope.
Some background. 90% of the time it will just be me and my wife with the possibility of our 2 small dogs. We like to go out on all sorts of lakes (in MN lots of small ones) and she doesn't like going faster than 20-25 but I would like to open up the throttle sometimes. Is a 26 too big? I like the idea of a big boat and speaking to a local dealer he said the main difference between the 26 and 24 (in the LX) is you loose room outside of the playpen. I like the idea of a nice big aft deck for the kids to dive and swim off of so smaller rear deck would not be ideal. I could delete popup cleats but that wouldn't make much difference. I have not been to the dealership to see how big a 23-26 is in person but I don't know where cutting would not hurt so much.
Help me Bennington Forum your my only hope.