Raider explorer 190 vs 2025 kingfisher escape

[NootkaSounder]

Friends father is looking at purchasing a new boat, these are the options we are looking at with hardtop and Alaskan bulkhead.
May I get some reviews and opinions on these two boat options?

Thank you

 

[walleyes]

Looked at both this last summer, talked numbers on quite a few models.

Raider looks like a decent made boat but I never did make it out to have an actual look at one. But the big thing that turned me off of them and this may not be important to everyone and that is they run wood on the back deck and back panels. You may be able to order one with all aluminum I’m not sure but all the ones I looked at were Vinyl covered wood. For myself this is a big turn off. We looked at the 2025 but ended up going with the 2225 as we found the 2025 back deck quite cramped for our use.

 

[zurk]

have a look at the riptide marine saratoga 2685 instead. same price than those factory boats but bigger size.