Big, could you PM me a contact for the one in Connecticut. I'd love to compare notes.
bgreene, I'll take a stab at it. Mine is an i/o and runs into 4-5 ft wind waves in the Gulf Stream considerably better than Contender type open fish with twin outboards. Never had a chance to compare the other brands, but the Albi 23 is a clone of the Formula 233. I've spent a lot of time in those. Been a long while, so memory isn't reliable, but I say the 25 rides some better into a head sea and much better in a steep following sea.
Many deep Vs snap roll, a thoroughly nasty action. the Formula can be terrible, throw you right out of the boat in the wrong conditions. Not sure about the others. The 25 does not snap roll with an 1/0. An outboard would change the vertical CG for the worse. If you do enough of that, the 25 can develop a bad snap roll. I'm not sure where the line is.
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