psneeld
Guru
It's not black or white.
Sure I wish I had sprint speed..but I'd be tempted every time I wanted to get some place sooner.
With a lot of cruising...that could be a lot of fuel.
So it boils down to budget and a lot of what ifs and what can I live with and without.
Weather not so much on the East Coast of the US/Bahamas...the only thing really hard to predict in the course of a single day is a pop up thunderstorm that you just deal with at any speed...most fast boats if they definitely can't outrun it wind up slowing down anyhow. That's for typical coastal/ICW cruising. Even just a few knots may really help when trvelling offshore.
Sure I wish I had sprint speed..but I'd be tempted every time I wanted to get some place sooner.
With a lot of cruising...that could be a lot of fuel.
So it boils down to budget and a lot of what ifs and what can I live with and without.
Weather not so much on the East Coast of the US/Bahamas...the only thing really hard to predict in the course of a single day is a pop up thunderstorm that you just deal with at any speed...most fast boats if they definitely can't outrun it wind up slowing down anyhow. That's for typical coastal/ICW cruising. Even just a few knots may really help when trvelling offshore.