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I agree - boat trade ins are a crapshoot. I will keep my eye out for people looking for a fishing machine - looks like a great boat.

Cabelas offered to try and help me sell mine when I was buying the new one but mine was not competing against anything they had for sale. I have Yamaha 115 on my boat and it does great - that 150 must really fly. I was between a Trophy and the Competitor when I bought mine but we liked a few things more about the Competitor since we plan on using it for both recreation and fishing and it was few grand cheaper. I would also put flyers up for it at some local places and of course the bait shops if they will let you. Wouldn't hurt to get some employees of the bait shops the info - they might know someone looking. I currently don't know anyone looking but if I happen to hear I will let you know.

I am not picking on Cabela's or anything, they are just one of the dealerships I have talked with. Evidently this way to value trade- ins is a standard to which all do business. A dealer down in Evansville which is close to where I live offered a little more using a different "blue book" but the formula was the same. These types of boats are not often seen much less sold around here. Still this one dealer has taken on the Lund line of boats and has sold 2 Impacts and has gotten in a 18ft Tyee and another impact. I think people will like these types of multi-species boats once they get around them a little bit. This is why I believe there was no interest locally.

Yep, It will scoot with the 19 inch pitch Laser II on the engine. With a light load and 2 people it will run 52 mph. My 17 pitch Vengeance will push it up to 49 mph on smooth water, and the 17 pitch Spitfire I recently bought got 47 mph. I was a bit surprised with that one because my rpm had almost no change comparing it to the 17 pitch 3 blade. I guess the aluminum will slip more in the water vs a stainless prop. Still I like the way a 4 blade works on that type of hull.

Only issue I see with the deep Vs in the 16'+ range is it makes it difficult on a lot of the smaller lakes around here - better with a bass or flat bottom boat but depends on the fishing your going to do. I got the DeepV to get out on lake michigan plus we go to Kentucky lake and bullshoals so it is good on those lakes. Also we wanted something we could pull tubers behind and smaller skiers. It is a nice boat you have - should be someone who wants to grab it.