I have the 15' "Sport", Great Boat ! it can go places no other 15' would DARE go, Are you refering to the 17' Montauk model ? In either case it's the best boat in that size class, HANDS DOWN ! double hulled constructruction filled with closed cell floatation makes them UNSINKABLE, even after 2000 rounds from a machine gun, it still floats, they drive trucks over them and the hull's don't break (you don't see the competition doing that). They are expensive but, simple, I paid $3100 for my 15' sport in 1990 without a trailer, I still have the boat ! 2- summers ago there was a jet ski accident in the bay, a kid jumped a wake, and hit a bouey, it knocked him out, and injured him badly, the current drifted him up into the tidal flats at high tide, other boats could NOT get to the unconscience kid and were calling the coast guard, I just hit the "Tilt" UP on the engine, and with my "Shallow Draft" nosed up to the kid, grabbed his head out of the water "GOTCHA" !, the coast guard showed up (in less than 10 minutes), we put a backboard on him (broken hip), but could not get him on board with 3 people lifting, the poor kid was in agony, the coast guard to my surprise said, "is it O.K if we slide him onto the "Whaler" since it's lower to the water", I said "Let's Go", we did, the backboard slid right on the nose, the CG got on board, and their boat gave me an escort to a waiting ambulance, the kid lived, and another whaler "LEGEND" is born. People say to me "how can you afford to put your family in a "Boston Whaler" ?..... My reply.... "How can I afford NOT to" ! His mother called and thanked me, she also called "Whaler" and THANKED THEM !