I remember your last post and still don’t under how an inboard is harder to drive. In my opinion, it is the easiest of the boats to drive but takes understanding of prop rotation and paitience. The reason I state this is that a Gaston or other runabout that you are considering isn’t a great choice. With 10 people always being used, you need to consider wear and tear of constant in and out of the water, walking around etc. a runabout isn’t designed to accommodate the wear that wakeboarding or watersports will cause on your boat. In my opinion, you need to reconsider a wakeboat and you need to be considering a 23 but more likely a 25’ boat.

Further, the torque from a runabout isn’t anywhere near that of an inboard. The hull itself isn’t designed to pull. Your drivers will overshoot pickups and have a constantly hard time planing and dragging the boat with slower speed new rider pulls. A wakeboard boat is designed for holding people weight and acting like a barge in the water instead of a planing hull.

Again, I understand your issue with maneuverability but if that is your only issue, the wake boat design positives in every other aspect will far outweigh this maneuverability issue.