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Summary: Eighteen to nineteen feet are standard sizes for speed boats. Learn about buying speed boats of different sizes in this free boating video from a speed boat salesman.
"Some of the different sizes of product in boats that are out there in the speed boats is generally a standard speedboat is about eighteen foot to nineteen foot is the standard. And you?re finding younger people that are just starting out in the vacation scene theme of boating and what's going to happen is they're going to buy an eighteen, nineteen foot boat. They're going to go to the river, they're going to use it for two to three years. They're going to go to the local lakes and they're going to like it tremendously. So typically what happens after a two to five year span is they'll upgrade to a twenty-one to twenty three foot class. Then after that we get some families that have been boating for ten, fifteen years are actually buying twenty five to twenty eight foot boats now. And the reason why they're upgrading is because the small boat, when you go to the lakes and there's a lot of people out there you're going to get bounced around quite a bit more. You're going to get thrown around, you?re going to outgrow it. A lot of people on a nineteen foot boat outgrow them three to five years on average because they realize that their needs and their wants have even increased even more. And the more your around boats and the more you use them you find out what works best for you."
eHow Article: Speed Boat Sizes