I also say to consider where you will get the boat serviced. My buddy has a Thunderjet, it's a really nice boat but he has taken it over to Idaho to the dealer probably 5 times in the 5 years he's had it. It's a 19 footer ib jet windshield boat, We took it up to Tahsis this summer, one day we were in 12'+ seas. Not real fun but the boat handled it fine.