The smaller runabouts are easy to tow yet many owners keep them in a slip on a lift or at a dry stack marina.

Runabout boat ratings. Revealing a trend among runabout and deck boat builders the Regal 29. Was a great upper line boat in quality materials and design. Newport Vessels Catalina Review.

Boating defines runabout boats loosely as open boats that are traditionally under about 25 feet in length. One of the curiosities of the boating scene is that you can get aluminium boats down to under five metres with self-draining decks but with fibreglass a self-drainer under about 65 metres is a rare exception. Caribbean is offering optional layouts as displayed in our review boat.

That is where we found plans for a boat named Victory and redesigned her for our material and building method. From our current listings the average number of passengers that runabout boats can take is 10 people with a maximum of 18. Sea Eagle PackFish 7 Review PF7 Inmar 470-MIL Review.

Runabout boats are also popular boats for coastal inshore and offshore boating. Fraser 525 Runabout Review. She is designed to cruise around at a good speed with minimal HP.

Based on that concept we designed 3 boats between 12 and 16. A 350 Magnum 300hp 57lt V8 MerCruiser powered the Bayliner 225 Runabout and gave this big boat impressive performance fi gures. The 3mm hull and top decks give you a solid feel when darting across the bay.

Theres also a fair amount of flare in the 225s bow which helps throw water and spray down and away from the hull. The 40hp Suzuki and 420 Aquamaster are as Greg Evans would say a perfect match. Intex Seahawk 4 Review.