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Originally Posted by whistler
I don't have experience with the 23 formula hull, but I owned 2 Wellcraft V20's before the 23 Sceptre. The 2 boats are not comparable in terms of ride. I am sure the 3 extra feet has much to do with it, but the Seacraft can take bigger seas at much higher speed while still being comfortable. It just lands so soft! In the V20, I had to slow down to barely on plane in anything over 2' to keep it from pounding, while the same chop in the Seacraft is comfortable at 25MPH +. This is for similarly setup boats, both cuddy with outboard on factory transom and no tabs.
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If you do a search you may find a Bushwacker story of returning from the Bahamas with Reiland in his 21' Unoho and one of my best friends in his Wellcraft V20, which I had been in many times. They ran into big seas. Both the 20' and 21' SeaCrafts did fine. But the V20 was built and rode so badly it had cracks in it nearly 6' long. I helped my friend pull/reinsert the inner liner so he could repair it. I was appalled by the contruction under the deck. As I recall the stringers appeared to be 5/8" with one layer of roving up and over them. The glass was cracked where the stringer met the hull. He added much glass to it, filled in between the stringers with foam which then was glassed over. It was a much "quieter" boat going through the rough stuff thereafter. ironically to this thread, he replaced it with a 23' Formula which I also traveled in comfortably a few times, but never in any rough stuff.