Made my first post today after lurking for a while and thought I'd say hi.
I grew up on the waters of Castaic and Havasu in my dad's 77 Spectra 20. Our group had everything from flattys to cabin cruisers and everything in between. My best memories as a kid are skipping across the lake in a dry pipe flat bottom, and cruising/skiing behind the mini day making runs to the dam.
Currently I have use of 21' open bow Chapparal i/o that we take to Parker, Newport, Catalina ect. The boat is great and a perfect family boat. However, I have a major itch to get my own jet and it will be nice to have two boats for our family river trips when all generations are there and we have 10 or so people. The kids are big enough that maxing the capacity on the Chap isnt very comfortable with a dog or two thrown in.
So onto my question: I'm thinking about making a long drive to look at a 19' Spectra in great shape. However, a 19' Kona rigged basically the same popped up much closer to me. I don't know anything about Kona boats and bit about Spectras. Given the same condition of the boats is there any reason to choose one over the other?
