re: Bout to score a cool $260 from my bracket picking prowess: what boat gadget shou

Didn't make one but pop went with a Frontier Meridian 2104. Also looked at nautic star, blue wave, sportsman, xpress, key west in person and of at the layout of blazer bay online. Frontier surpassed all of them in terms of layout in our opinion. Note: all were within $3000 when similarly equipped.

If I was ranking them (and this is just my opinion after sitting in every jump seat, sticking my head in every hatch, flipping every switch, etc...):
1) frontier 2104
2) sportsman 214
3) blue wave
4) key west
5) nautic star

I can't really rank the xpress against those because it's too different (not bad, just not the same catagory).