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Hands down; the 23'! Particulary if it is a I/O or inboard.
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I've ridden in both, and as good as the 23 is, I'd say the 21 is the softer (but wetter) riding of the two.
Also spoke with a friend who followed the 21 "Unohu" to West End, Grand Bahama in his 23' Sceptre on one trip with 20-25 mph East winds and 10-12' head seas! Took 'em 5 hrs to make the 60 nm run! The owner of that 23 had also made many dive trips on the "Unohu", and he agreed that the 21 rode a little softer but also said it was a lot wetter. He was bringing up the rear in a string of 5 boats on that particularly rough crosssing, with the Unohu leading. He said the seas were big enough that the Unohu would disappear when it went over a wave, and that you could tell how big the next wave was by the angle of the spray from the 21 when it punched into the next wave. If it was 45 degrees, you knew it wasn't too bad, but every so often it would look like a couple of fire hoses shooting straight up when that big high bow punched into a really big one!
He also said that the skipper of the "Unohu" had been seen driving across the Gulf Stream wearing a mask & snorkle!
That makes sense to me and probably to anyone else who wears glasses all the time . . . if you wear a prescription mask, only one side of the lens will get wet when the spray hits, which is a big improvement!