I have a 1900 pro select, it is a great boat. I have owned all kinds of boats, Lund tyee, crestliners, a warrior tiller (best one I ever owned), been in several others, I will say my sylvan is great a boat and handles the water well, however it does not seem as “sturdy” as a Tyee. It seems like it is noisier going thru the water. The ride quality feels equal to me, cornering on plane seemed better in the lund, and the lund tracked better with the bow mount and/ or the kicker motor. None of the the things the lund did better would I say the Sylvan is bad at. Just the lund was better. I wanted to go back to a tyee when I bough the sylvan, but could not find one I liked, and wound up driving 300 miles to look at a tyee with a bad transom (at a dealer), after being told it was solid. After I looked at the Lund, I pulled into the gas station and looked at FB marketplace in the area I was in and the Sylvan was for sale and was on the way home. When I got there, the boat was clean, and the only box it did not check was 4 stroke main motor, however it was priced about 8 thousand less then any of the tyee or fishermans I had already looked at, and the fall bite was going to be firing up soon, so I bought it and figured it did not handle or function properly for me, I could sell it after I found the right Lund. I quit looking and have been happy with the boat for 3 years now. I fish mainly on the river in South dakota, winnie, leech and a some local lakes here in Iowa. My 2 sons (smallest one is 6’1″ 200# freshman) and I can fish from it comfortably, I pull a lot of crankbaits here in Iowa, and with 4 in the boat, it is starting to get a bit a cowded, but I normally just sit up in the bow and run the minnkota to steer and let the neighbor and my sons reel in and net the fish. If I try to stay in the cockpit there is not enough room around the seats and the bodies to fight fish and get them netted.
