What boat for 20k

 Time to change rigs! I Have Upto 20k tops and coming out of a 5.2 plate cc. 

Requiremets :

5-6m Auminuim Pref plate  

Pref 4 stoke, but loved the etec, just done 1000 too many hours 

Room to rollout 2 swags on the deck  

Primary use fishing and ducking over to rotto for an ovenight 

T top if cc, and seat behind/in front of console

Good condiion trailer 

Fishfinder Vhf Nav lights

Storage - side pockets and under deck/seat storage

Rod storge 

Flotation

Must fish 4 blokes 

Desirable :

Live bait tank 

 lights for night fishing 

Mp3 cd am radio 

 

 

I like the  look of the one in the picture, missed out by a few days  

 

 

What things would be best things to go for? Anything I've missed? 

 

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yeah I like the boat above

Wed, 2014-01-08 20:35

yeah I like the boat above too !

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Bubble

Wed, 2014-01-08 21:32

 Don't want to burst your bubble but I think your being a bit optimistic with what you want and your budget.

i spent most of last year looking at boats from $20k + for myself and a few mates respectively and I think you would need to be looking closer to $30k especially if you want 4 stroke.  There are heaps of good boats around with an old 2 banger on the back if your not too fussy about the motor, but they could turn into a money pit

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Maybe a bit too expensive but

Wed, 2014-01-08 21:43

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wouldnt you struggle to roll

Thu, 2014-01-09 00:36

wouldnt you struggle to roll out swags on a 5-6M centre console?

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 Fish four blokes off a

Thu, 2014-01-09 01:32

 Fish four blokes off a twenty g boat with a four stroke I think unless your anchored and fishing two off each side you will be pushing your luck I think you need a seven metre boat with large deckspace to fish four blokes just my opinion and will be a little more than twenty g

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 the above sold for 19800

Thu, 2014-01-09 20:51

 the above sold for 19800 last week 2 stroke 90, 5.5m, room for swags, and as the console is far back room for swags, ultimately a time machine would be good! But if I had one of them I'd get the lotto numbers! 

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Lemon

Thu, 2014-01-09 21:10

 Yeah josh I assumed that might of been the case from reading your original post, either that is the bargain of the year or its a lemon just seems a good 8k too cheap purely looking at that pic.

 

your yellow tub looks pretty good for that price I forwarded the link through to a few mates who are looking

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 Yeah taking a bloke out for

Thu, 2014-01-09 21:24

 Yeah taking a bloke out for a test run tomorrow, looking like its pretty promising