I am really glad that my wife and Andrew (and Tim) at Ranger Tugs talked me into the R27. I do think this is one of the most versatile boats out there. We jokingly tell everybody we bought waterfront property. It's our RV on the water. -- Martin
This is SO helpful, I’ve watched it a few times. Thank you for taking the time to pull all these points together into one video. You touched on many things we’ve been wondering about between the 25 and 27 and you pointed out a few things we hadn’t even thought about that are relevant to the type of boating we want to do. Great job. Thanks so much!
Hey hello my name is Michael I want to say 1st of all thank you guys for what your doing on this channel on UA-cam. Also want to say you have been most informative about the boat, because I am looking at the same boat the 27 footer looks like an awesome awesome boat. I will be only by myself in the beginning it looks like a very good clean line boat thanks for everything guys chat later.
I have been going through the same thing as you two went through trying to decide which Ranger to purchase. I have been looking for. Liveable boat just myself..... Watching your videos has convinced me to order a Ranger R27 and I am about to place my order and deposit. Thankyou so much. You really helped me. God bless.
Thanks for this thoughtful video. We were looking at the 23, and almost immediately went up to looking at the the 25 Due to the somewhat forced shower arrangement in the 23. Great food for thought!
Come on stocks....please split so I can buy a R27! Dreaming! Please post a video featuring commonly heard sounds on the boat. What does it sound like when the diesel running at night, the heater etc, can you hear it while trying to sleep?
We don't run the diesel heater at night. We have before. You hear the fuel pump (it's quiet, but at night on a boat, it's also really really quiet). And the fan is blowing, moving air which you hear. Also quiet. We've just found it not necessary to run the heater throughout the night. We upgraded our heater thermostat to bluetooth. So we heat the boat up before bed. Go to sleep. Then turn it back on in the morning to heat the boat back up (or I'll set a timer to turn itself on at a specified time) and wake up to a warm boat. Saves fuel and power also.
It performs great in rough seas. We’ve spent 2 hours doing 5 knots in 3-5 foot seas in our Ranger tug. It did fine. I’ve been in 3-4 foot seas on the Maxum and that was a white knuckle 2 hour trip tacking back thru the waves to get to the dock. It was more to do with having an open bow and not wanting to scoop up the ocean with the front of the boat.
Do you have a generator on board? I’ve convinced myself a 2000w is a must have for the 25 I’ve been eyeballing. I don’t see a lot of conversation on this subject. What day you?
Post generator world. Amazing. One last thing. Do you find there is a significant decrease in solar power generation when it is cloudy and does the panel still produce enough power when our Northwest days get shorter. Thanks for the reply, and the insight you’ve provided in this video
@@sosalish441 check this out. Real world data taken on Channel Surfing over the past year. www.letsgochannelsurfing.com/solar-power?pgid=kxcvhybj-984f2fdc-512b-4708-af84-e932b613eda6
@@sosalish441 During the summertime, I will see over 160amp-hours a day. When it rains all day, that gets reduced to about 50amp-hours a day. The worst I’ve seen was January in the fog all day and I still got 20 amp-hours. Solar doesn’t have to hit 100pct of your daily needs. Assume you had 100 usable amp-hours, and assume you use 100 amp-hours a day. That’s 1 day away from shore power. If solar provided 75 amp hours a day, that would increase your time to 4 days away from shore power.
Love your videos. Thank you. I don't have the R27 OB yet, but hope to someday. I boat in the mid-Atlantic region and I'm very interested in the AC. Is there a reason you would or wouldn't recommend the generator?
Great question, and thanks for watching our videos! If the generator was built into the boat I'd be ok with one. In the Pacific NorthWest, we don't need AC which is a huge power drain. I don't want to run a portable generator on the boat due to the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning and risk of electrocution from the floating neutral of the portable generator. Fortunately, we get lots of sun in the summer, so upgrading our solar panel(s) will help enormously. And for those rainy/overcast days, we can always idle the Yamaha F300 and get 20 - 30 amps per hour of charge. A couple of hours would be sufficient to buy time away from shore power. www.boats.com/how-to/portable-ac-generators-safe-for-boats/
The LE (Luxury Edition) of the RT-27OB used to come with a generator built into the boat and air conditioning. I noticed for the 2022 models Ranger is offering, instead, an AC unit which runs off six 100Ah LiON batteries to feed the AC electrical needs.
In this other video, I put up the spreadsheet that shows GPh and fuel efficiency that we see across various speeds. I consider our every day usage to have a range of 165nm with 40 gallons of reserve cruising around 25kts. At 2:45 is where to look. ua-cam.com/video/LYoBPNLN3hM/v-deo.html
Thanks for watching! I change our trim tab anodes every 6 months. It's very apparent when they need to be changed. The engine transom anode appears to last quite a bit longer. I also bought a corrosion reference electrode that I can use to test the hull potential, which will let me know that my galvanic isolator is still working and that my anodes are also functioning.
Can you expand on your decision matrix re: diesel v. outboard - maybe this was an "easy" decision that doesn't require any more dialog, but you didn't really touch on many factors like: fuel economy, cruise speed, longevity, safety, maintenance costs, maintenance intervals. For me this is the hardest part of this decision matrix... My time is limited right now (still working), so this argues for the outboard - more destinations in reach in "weekend" timeframes. The cruise on the diesel is about 15mph and the outboard I believe is about double that. But I like everything else about the diesel - and will likely go that route as I plan to keep the boat a long time (into retirement when speed won't be such an important factor).
The main reason I didn't go more into the difference, was there are a lot of diesel options out there. The older RT27's were diesel inboards. Some where 100hp, or 150hp... The R29 today is a 320hp diesel inboard. But the R29 is a lot more boat in that it has a 10' beam. The Cutwater 28 is actually probably the best comparison to the RT27-OB, as far as size and weight of the boat. The C28 being a 270HP diesel inboard. In general when we were evaluating which way to go, fuel efficiency was close enough between gas and diesel that mpg didn't factor into our decision. They were comparable. However, top end speed and cruising speed did factor a lot also into our decision. The RT27-OB with the 300 hp Yamaha cruises at 25 kts and WOT is 35kts. That alone was a selling point for us. With a 25kts cruising speed we can be in the San Juan islands in under 2 hours. The top speed of the C28 I wanna say is around 22kts and cruising would be like 8-12kts. We see 1.6nmpg most of the time when cruising. Looking at our fuel and travel logs, the first 150 hours on the engine we traveled 1,526nm and burned 968 gallons of gas. That's 1.57nmpg (1.8mpg) averaged over the first 5 months. And with a 150 gallon gas tank, gives us a range of 200 miles (with 40 gallons of reserve). I am not retired, but am able to work from the boat as long as I have LTE signal. So having the speed to outrun some weather, and to get to our destination in a timely fashion was important to us. The maintenance was also important. The outboard is easier to work on myself, translation: It's more convenient to get the maintenance done when I need it done since all I need is a haul-out, the rest is on me.
Here's some real world numbers that we see on Channel Surfing with the 300HP Yamaha outboard (gas, 87 octane). 6.8kts (slow boat) at 2.5gph = 2.72 nmpg. 25kts (cruising) at 16ghp = 1.56nmpg. When I'm planning our trips, these are the numbers I use in Navionics for planning of fuel dock stops.
One last point, above 10kts and less than 22kts, the outboard doesn't do well. That's the spot where you're going faster then hull speed but slower than planing speed. So fuel burn is typically less than 1nmpg in this range. (0.8nmpg, for example). I've no idea on the life expectancy of a diesel in comparison to the Yamaha F300. But I did research the life expectancy on the F300 and found that 7000 hours is doable. That would be 300 hours a year for 20 years. The engine is raw water cooled, but also has replaceable anodes throughout the cooling jacket (6 anodes actually), and has them in the oil pan as well. The engine was built for salt water. The water pump is much easier to replace on the outboard than in the diesel (Ranger Tug has a video on how to do it on a diesel. Tight space, cramped quarters). I did our water pump once already. It's in our maintenance video. (ua-cam.com/video/vf0Eoyq2yEY/v-deo.html) Wasn't too tough. Easy to get to as I just pulled the lower unit off. One pro for the diesel is that maintenance is done in the boat without a haul out. So folks that want to do the Great Loop might find it tough finding a haul-out for an oil change/100 hr service while the diesel could do all its' routine maintenance at the dock.
I didn’t consider the speed issue since I will have to keep working to pay the boat off. I only thought about the diesels engines’ useful life being 3-4 times as long as gas. I figure that when I’m well into retirement and can no longer work salaried type incomes, I will not want a boat I will need to replace engines every 1500 hours.
I hope I get a lot more than 1500 hours out of the Yamaha! The Mercury 5.0L MPI 260 HP Stern drive I/O on our Maxum Bowrider we got 450 hours out of before it overheated, detonated 3 of the 8 cylinders, then cracked the engine block due to cooling passages blocked with rust. This was the problem I was running away from. This video perked my interest when I was looking at the life expectancy of the Yamaha outboard. ua-cam.com/video/TdqmXcWs64k/v-deo.html
We haven’t had a chance to measure the v-berth but I found a this on the tug it forum.The dimensions of the berth are 6'6" upper most part of the bow to the back. Width is 6'7", widest part between the side cushions. Thanks for watching
Thanks! Wife and I are trying to decide which models to look at, R27, R29 or R31. I like the ease of trailering that the R27 offers, which will make traveling to inland waterways and lakes much easier.
Thanks for watching!! Channel Surfing can definitely go from the San Juans up to Alaska. We are currently planning a trip to Glacier Bay, Alaska. Bucket-list sort of thing. Being an inter-coastal cruiser just means watching the weather and not being tied to a schedule.
Our goal this upcoming season is to train the dogs to go potty on the boat. Not sure how that's gonna turn out, but we're up for the challenge. This is what we're thinking (artificial grass for the cockpit for the dogs to use). www.amazon.com/dp/B071X8WWX3/?coliid=I1YQNWT1A7OSMN&colid=7UJ1IM86Y57A&psc=0
@@Letsgochannelsurfing That is a challenging topic that could create really unique content. A real nice way to distinguish your channel. I’m thinking about our future boating, with an eye for including our pets.
Great question! Ranger Tugs are inter-coastal cruisers. They are not blue water/open ocean boats. They don't have a big enough gas tank. Plus they weren't really designed for ocean swells across large distances. The R-27 is fantastic at cruising around, staying within 75 miles of shore. Party at the dock, anchorage in a cove or harbor, and fishing, sightseeing cruising inland waters.
Currently we run them to shore in the dingy. This coming season we are going to train them to go on the boat onto a piece of AstroTurf. The travel plans we have for the boat will make it a lot easier if the dogs can go on the boat and not need to get to shore multiple times a day.
Thanks for watching!! We did purchase Channel Surfing brand new. Had to wait (at the time) 4.5 months for her to be built. Today, the RT27-OB's are going for (new) around $220k base price for the NorthWest edition. The luxury edition with air conditioning is a little more expensive.
She handles fine in heavy seas.. We've had her out in 3-5 seas once, not on purpose. It was slow going, about 5kts... lots of pitching and some rolling. The extra weight the RT27 has over the R23 and R25 helps.
I am really glad that my wife and Andrew (and Tim) at Ranger Tugs talked me into the R27. I do think this is one of the most versatile boats out there. We jokingly tell everybody we bought waterfront property. It's our RV on the water. -- Martin
This is SO helpful, I’ve watched it a few times. Thank you for taking the time to pull all these points together into one video. You touched on many things we’ve been wondering about between the 25 and 27 and you pointed out a few things we hadn’t even thought about that are relevant to the type of boating we want to do. Great job. Thanks so much!
You are so welcome! Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the vid, I am waffling btwn a 25 and 27, you have convinced me that the 27 is better for me.
The RT27-OB is a fantastic boat. Thanks for watching!
Hey hello my name is Michael I want to say 1st of all thank you guys for what your doing on this channel on UA-cam. Also want to say you have been most informative about the boat, because I am looking at the same boat the 27 footer looks like an awesome awesome boat. I will be only by myself in the beginning it looks like a very good clean line boat thanks for everything guys chat later.
Thanks for watching!
I have been going through the same thing as you two went through trying to decide which Ranger to purchase. I have been looking for. Liveable boat just myself..... Watching your videos has convinced me to order a Ranger R27 and I am about to place my order and deposit. Thankyou so much. You really helped me. God bless.
Good choice! We love our RT27-OB. It's got all the comforts of home for us to enjoy being out on the water.
Thank you so much for you this video, this has been very helpful for someone thinking about a Ranger Tug.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for this thoughtful video. We were looking at the 23, and almost immediately went up to looking at the the 25 Due to the somewhat forced shower arrangement in the 23. Great food for thought!
The head configuration weighed heavy in our decision to go with the RT27. Thanks for watching!
Enjoyed your review, very informative it is a a great help for me to decide on my next boat.
Thanks for watching! I'm glad you found this useful!
I was on the Virtual Seattle boat show last night . Was so-so . I guess i was expecting too much .
Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching!!
Great video
Glad you enjoyed it
Great video!! This is stuff you cant get in a brochure or pictures! Thank you!
Thanks for watching!!
Super helpful information! Much appreciated. 👍👏
Glad it was helpful!
Great information. Thanks
Glad it was helpful and thanks for watching!
Very informative. Thanks guys.
Thanks for watching!!
Thank you. Super useful.
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
Great review!
Glad you enjoyed it
Very helpful video, I have been looking at used 27's and I think I would rather have the outboard then the inboard engine.
Thanks for watching!
Come on stocks....please split so I can buy a R27! Dreaming!
Please post a video featuring commonly heard sounds on the boat. What does it sound like when the diesel running at night, the heater etc, can you hear it while trying to sleep?
We don't run the diesel heater at night. We have before. You hear the fuel pump (it's quiet, but at night on a boat, it's also really really quiet). And the fan is blowing, moving air which you hear. Also quiet. We've just found it not necessary to run the heater throughout the night. We upgraded our heater thermostat to bluetooth. So we heat the boat up before bed. Go to sleep. Then turn it back on in the morning to heat the boat back up (or I'll set a timer to turn itself on at a specified time) and wake up to a warm boat. Saves fuel and power also.
How does the boat perform in rough seas, compared to deep vee, like your maxum? It would appear that the tug would roll more? Thanks!
It performs great in rough seas. We’ve spent 2 hours doing 5 knots in 3-5 foot seas in our Ranger tug. It did fine.
I’ve been in 3-4 foot seas on the Maxum and that was a white knuckle 2 hour trip tacking back thru the waves to get to the dock. It was more to do with having an open bow and not wanting to scoop up the ocean with the front of the boat.
@@Letsgochannelsurfing thank you for the info and your videos!
Do you have a generator on board? I’ve convinced myself a 2000w is a must have for the 25 I’ve been eyeballing. I don’t see a lot of conversation on this subject. What day you?
Thanks for watching!! We do not have a generator onboard. We have 400 watts of solar power which provides what we need for electrical.
Post generator world. Amazing. One last thing. Do you find there is a significant decrease in solar power generation when it is cloudy and does the panel still produce enough power when our Northwest days get shorter. Thanks for the reply, and the insight you’ve provided in this video
@@sosalish441 check this out. Real world data taken on Channel Surfing over the past year.
www.letsgochannelsurfing.com/solar-power?pgid=kxcvhybj-984f2fdc-512b-4708-af84-e932b613eda6
@@sosalish441 During the summertime, I will see over 160amp-hours a day. When it rains all day, that gets reduced to about 50amp-hours a day.
The worst I’ve seen was January in the fog all day and I still got 20 amp-hours.
Solar doesn’t have to hit 100pct of your daily needs. Assume you had 100 usable amp-hours, and assume you use 100 amp-hours a day. That’s 1 day away from shore power. If solar provided 75 amp hours a day, that would increase your time to 4 days away from shore power.
Love your videos. Thank you. I don't have the R27 OB yet, but hope to someday. I boat in the mid-Atlantic region and I'm very interested in the AC. Is there a reason you would or wouldn't recommend the generator?
Great question, and thanks for watching our videos! If the generator was built into the boat I'd be ok with one. In the Pacific NorthWest, we don't need AC which is a huge power drain. I don't want to run a portable generator on the boat due to the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning and risk of electrocution from the floating neutral of the portable generator.
Fortunately, we get lots of sun in the summer, so upgrading our solar panel(s) will help enormously. And for those rainy/overcast days, we can always idle the Yamaha F300 and get 20 - 30 amps per hour of charge. A couple of hours would be sufficient to buy time away from shore power.
www.boats.com/how-to/portable-ac-generators-safe-for-boats/
The LE (Luxury Edition) of the RT-27OB used to come with a generator built into the boat and air conditioning. I noticed for the 2022 models Ranger is offering, instead, an AC unit which runs off six 100Ah LiON batteries to feed the AC electrical needs.
Was that some dolphins and a boomer pin I saw in the background!!!
USS Tinosa, SSN 606 decommissioning crew, and the USS Georgia, SSBN 729, Blue Crew when she was based out of Bangor, WA :)
@@Letsgochannelsurfing USS San Francisco, 3 west pacs, decommisiong crew
@@youknowjojo1 MM1/SS, A-gang. You?
@@Letsgochannelsurfing MM1/SS NUKE
What's the range and fuel burn rate on the boat?
In this other video, I put up the spreadsheet that shows GPh and fuel efficiency that we see across various speeds.
I consider our every day usage to have a range of 165nm with 40 gallons of reserve cruising around 25kts.
At 2:45 is where to look.
ua-cam.com/video/LYoBPNLN3hM/v-deo.html
@@Letsgochannelsurfing Thanks i'll check it out
Make sure you change your a nodes I did keep a close watch it’s cost me 20 grand fo a new outboard on my 23 ranger tug
Thanks for watching! I change our trim tab anodes every 6 months. It's very apparent when they need to be changed. The engine transom anode appears to last quite a bit longer. I also bought a corrosion reference electrode that I can use to test the hull potential, which will let me know that my galvanic isolator is still working and that my anodes are also functioning.
Can you expand on your decision matrix re: diesel v. outboard - maybe this was an "easy" decision that doesn't require any more dialog, but you didn't really touch on many factors like: fuel economy, cruise speed, longevity, safety, maintenance costs, maintenance intervals. For me this is the hardest part of this decision matrix... My time is limited right now (still working), so this argues for the outboard - more destinations in reach in "weekend" timeframes. The cruise on the diesel is about 15mph and the outboard I believe is about double that. But I like everything else about the diesel - and will likely go that route as I plan to keep the boat a long time (into retirement when speed won't be such an important factor).
The main reason I didn't go more into the difference, was there are a lot of diesel options out there. The older RT27's were diesel inboards. Some where 100hp, or 150hp... The R29 today is a 320hp diesel inboard. But the R29 is a lot more boat in that it has a 10' beam. The Cutwater 28 is actually probably the best comparison to the RT27-OB, as far as size and weight of the boat. The C28 being a 270HP diesel inboard. In general when we were evaluating which way to go, fuel efficiency was close enough between gas and diesel that mpg didn't factor into our decision. They were comparable. However, top end speed and cruising speed did factor a lot also into our decision. The RT27-OB with the 300 hp Yamaha cruises at 25 kts and WOT is 35kts. That alone was a selling point for us. With a 25kts cruising speed we can be in the San Juan islands in under 2 hours. The top speed of the C28 I wanna say is around 22kts and cruising would be like 8-12kts. We see 1.6nmpg most of the time when cruising. Looking at our fuel and travel logs, the first 150 hours on the engine we traveled 1,526nm and burned 968 gallons of gas. That's 1.57nmpg (1.8mpg) averaged over the first 5 months. And with a 150 gallon gas tank, gives us a range of 200 miles (with 40 gallons of reserve). I am not retired, but am able to work from the boat as long as I have LTE signal. So having the speed to outrun some weather, and to get to our destination in a timely fashion was important to us. The maintenance was also important. The outboard is easier to work on myself, translation: It's more convenient to get the maintenance done when I need it done since all I need is a haul-out, the rest is on me.
Here's some real world numbers that we see on Channel Surfing with the 300HP Yamaha outboard (gas, 87 octane).
6.8kts (slow boat) at 2.5gph = 2.72 nmpg.
25kts (cruising) at 16ghp = 1.56nmpg.
When I'm planning our trips, these are the numbers I use in Navionics for planning of fuel dock stops.
One last point, above 10kts and less than 22kts, the outboard doesn't do well. That's the spot where you're going faster then hull speed but slower than planing speed. So fuel burn is typically less than 1nmpg in this range. (0.8nmpg, for example).
I've no idea on the life expectancy of a diesel in comparison to the Yamaha F300. But I did research the life expectancy on the F300 and found that 7000 hours is doable. That would be 300 hours a year for 20 years. The engine is raw water cooled, but also has replaceable anodes throughout the cooling jacket (6 anodes actually), and has them in the oil pan as well. The engine was built for salt water. The water pump is much easier to replace on the outboard than in the diesel (Ranger Tug has a video on how to do it on a diesel. Tight space, cramped quarters). I did our water pump once already. It's in our maintenance video. (ua-cam.com/video/vf0Eoyq2yEY/v-deo.html) Wasn't too tough. Easy to get to as I just pulled the lower unit off.
One pro for the diesel is that maintenance is done in the boat without a haul out. So folks that want to do the Great Loop might find it tough finding a haul-out for an oil change/100 hr service while the diesel could do all its' routine maintenance at the dock.
I didn’t consider the speed issue since I will have to keep working to pay the boat off. I only thought about the diesels engines’ useful life being 3-4 times as long as gas. I figure that when I’m well into retirement and can no longer work salaried type incomes, I will not want a boat I will need to replace engines every 1500 hours.
I hope I get a lot more than 1500 hours out of the Yamaha!
The Mercury 5.0L MPI 260 HP Stern drive I/O on our Maxum Bowrider we got 450 hours out of before it overheated, detonated 3 of the 8 cylinders, then cracked the engine block due to cooling passages blocked with rust. This was the problem I was running away from.
This video perked my interest when I was looking at the life expectancy of the Yamaha outboard.
ua-cam.com/video/TdqmXcWs64k/v-deo.html
Question about the R27...
Can you advise what are the dimensions of the v-berth in your R27?
We'll measure the v-berth and let you know.
We haven’t had a chance to measure the v-berth but I found a this on the tug it forum.The dimensions of the berth are 6'6" upper most part of the bow to the back. Width is 6'7", widest part between the side cushions.
Thanks for watching
Thanks! Wife and I are trying to decide which models to look at, R27, R29 or R31. I like the ease of trailering that the R27 offers, which will make traveling to inland waterways and lakes much easier.
Can your boat go from the San Juan Islands to Victoria Island or on up to Alaska if you hug the coast? Is it big enough for this?
Thanks for watching!!
Channel Surfing can definitely go from the San Juans up to Alaska. We are currently planning a trip to Glacier Bay, Alaska. Bucket-list sort of thing. Being an inter-coastal cruiser just means watching the weather and not being tied to a schedule.
Excellent teamwork. I’m looking forward to me n the wife. How do you manage with dogs? Have you trained the dog to go in the shower?
Our goal this upcoming season is to train the dogs to go potty on the boat. Not sure how that's gonna turn out, but we're up for the challenge.
This is what we're thinking (artificial grass for the cockpit for the dogs to use).
www.amazon.com/dp/B071X8WWX3/?coliid=I1YQNWT1A7OSMN&colid=7UJ1IM86Y57A&psc=0
@@Letsgochannelsurfing That is a challenging topic that could create really unique content. A real nice way to distinguish your channel. I’m thinking about our future boating, with an eye for including our pets.
@@glawtonmoore We're going to give it a shot. Will have to make a weekend out of it, dedicated to potty training the dogs at anchor.
You think the 27 can make it from california to Hawaii or are those trips for other boats?
Great question! Ranger Tugs are inter-coastal cruisers. They are not blue water/open ocean boats. They don't have a big enough gas tank. Plus they weren't really designed for ocean swells across large distances.
The R-27 is fantastic at cruising around, staying within 75 miles of shore. Party at the dock, anchorage in a cove or harbor, and fishing, sightseeing cruising inland waters.
Tankage is you problem for that trip its one of the longest open water tips there is ... you just cant haul enough fuel to make it
WERE DO YOUR DOGS DO THIER BISNESS ?
Currently we run them to shore in the dingy. This coming season we are going to train them to go on the boat onto a piece of AstroTurf. The travel plans we have for the boat will make it a lot easier if the dogs can go on the boat and not need to get to shore multiple times a day.
Did you buy her new and how much did she set you back we want one for the great loop
Thanks for watching!!
We did purchase Channel Surfing brand new. Had to wait (at the time) 4.5 months for her to be built. Today, the RT27-OB's are going for (new) around $220k base price for the NorthWest edition. The luxury edition with air conditioning is a little more expensive.
How does it handle in heavy seas ?
She handles fine in heavy seas.. We've had her out in 3-5 seas once, not on purpose. It was slow going, about 5kts... lots of pitching and some rolling. The extra weight the RT27 has over the R23 and R25 helps.