I fished with Mike Herrick last year at the RCL in SD, he was running the 2025 SE. I bet if you give him a call, he would gladly give you his opinion. I personally thought the boat rode as well as any I’d ever been in, with the 225 Opti it performed very well. Of course we fished some pretty calm water for the couple days we pre-fished. My third day out there I fished out of 2025 IFS, again with the Merc. At that time of year the full windshield was nice but man do they take up a lot of room. Try Mike at http://www.wavewackers.com