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Would really appreciate your help. We had started looking for a new boat for our family of 5 when we stumbled across several Montauk 17's in the 1996 to 2000 year range. All with either an Evinrude or Mercury 90 2s, original to the boats.

I was familiar with Whalers but not extensively and started finding and reading what I could. The ones we are looking at have a back bench seat. We're wondering if it is two small considering the size of our family? Our oldest is a pre-teen and I want the next boat to last quite a while so it will need to fit 2 adults and 3 teenagers. It appears to have enough room, but I'm not sure.

We like to explore several bodies of water around us that are anywhere from an hour to 3 hours away varying from rivers and lakes to the coastal bay. The light tow of this boat is very appealing. We're use to more confined spaces and just want to have seating for everyone. This model and size appear to be the 'SUV' of boats which is what we're looking for.

Not looking for speed. Most of the time we are cruising and site seeing at around 7-13mph. Might have one of the kids want to try wakeboarding in the future. Rest would just be tubing whenever.

Grew up on a 16ft Mark Twain bowrider that sat 8 people comfortably so I'm hoping this isn't too small?

Thanks!