Category: Boat Guides

Saturday morning at the ramp, someone is on their fourth attempt to back a trailer while six trucks wait behind them. The boat on that trailer is 26 feet. It is a nice boat. It is also the reason this is taking fifteen minutes instead of two. That scene plays out at every ramp on […]

Aluminum is the budget option and fiberglass is the real boat. That was true for a long time and it is not anymore. A Ranger Alpha 208 is all-welded .125 inch aluminum with a pad-bottom running surface, a setback transom, and a 250 horsepower rating. An Xpress X21 Pro with a Yamaha F250 on the […]

Sportsman and Sea Hunt are both built in South Carolina, both run Yamaha outboards, and both put a 10-year limited warranty on the hull. They even describe their bows the same way, with a Carolina flare to keep spray down. So the usual reasons people give for choosing one don’t settle the Sportsman vs Sea […]

A Sea Pro 222 CC starts at $88,440 from the factory, and a Sportsman Open 212 of almost the same length starts at $92,735. That’s a much smaller gap than most people expect when they are weighing Sea Pro vs Sportsman. The warranty gap you hear about mostly isn’t there either. Both builders put 10 […]

Sea Pro vs Sea Hunt: The Differences That Actually Matter Sea Pro vs Sea Hunt comes up constantly in boat-buying forums, and most of the answers people get back amount to a shrug followed by a personal opinion with no real explanation behind it. Both brands build out of South Carolina, both have a loyal […]

Search for the best boats for families and most of what comes back reads the same way, no matter who wrote it. A sizing chart says a family of six needs a 20-foot boat, full stop, with no mention of whether that family boats on a calm lake or somewhere the wind can turn a […]