Ultimate Striper Boat

[GeoFisher]

I trailered it to West Palm Beach, then cruised 62 nautical mi. to West End Bahamas.
then another 120 mi to Green Turtle Cay

we stop at other islands on the way.

Man, that sounds way, way COOL.

[JUSTINHALL]

In regards to the 2-stroke or 4-stroke I would pick the 4-stroke first choice, but the newer 2-strokes aren't too bad to troll with. Mine is a 225 optimax (2007) on a 22' boat and it trolls at 3.2mph no wind and 2.8 usually against the wind. That's just a hair higher than you should troll with umbrella rigs but it works just fine without have a plate (or 5 gallon bucket) to slow it down. It does not load up at all, I can troll for 2 hrs straight then hammer throttle to take off and no burbling or coughing it just takes off. Never had fouled a plug or even loaded up it burns pretty clean. With that being said though my next boat will have a 300 4-stroke verado just because of it being quite.
Older 2-strokes however won't troll for long periods of times without loading up. If looking at a new boat and gonna use your big motor to troll and not have a kicker motor be careful with your hours because your warranty will be cut premature due to too many hours. Now I use my boat a lot, but trolling put some extra hours on my motor when I took it in the first year I started striper fishing I had 285 hrs in 1 year, that is way more than your average fishing boat.
But either way you go if its a newer motor 2005ish and above you should be fine.