After considerable thought and a few sleepless nights of trying to decide, the merry go round finally stopped yesterday on "buy the boat". So I went with my first gut instinct which is to get the bigger faster boat. The reasons have been debated on this site in other threads but as I said before its better to have the hp and not use it all than to need it and not have it. So I went with the 1980 in the Victor red color with the Mercury 150 ProXS. You cant really argue with the logic of, it will cruise at 45 mph easily with a full boat load of bodies and tackle all day long without working hard. Then for those times when I do a road trip to much bigger water, I have the power or speed to light it up a little bit if I want. I got the tilt steering, 80# Ultrex, 2 of the 10" HBird Helix mega units linked and mounted on brackets. Jack plate, center seat and separate coin box, will also have a hot foot throttle installed. Now I just need to relax and wait for this baby to show up.