What would you want in a 19 ft cc

This isn't really helping.
Why would you recommend a 23 footer ?

 

Another 23 footer. Called SMARTBOAT 23, a French design.

The extra length is needed so that you can raise the cockpit sole high enough for self bailing , without compromising stabilty, and add enough beam aft to give you reasonable working space on each side of the outboard.

You might be able to do it with a 19 footer but the length beam proportions would be odd or you would have to go low horsepower , 40 or 50 hp max

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Guys please I am not interested in any of those fance pancy italiano frenchy dutchy boats.
I don't know what a cc is for you but for me it is a Seacraft, Mako, Blackfin, Wellcraft, Albemarle, Custom Carolina style boat.
That's my taste.

The Mako that I've ridden is self bailing probably due to the open transom.
It's 19 feet long and 8 feet wide and the biggest we've put on it which I can remember was 175 hp.
Some even put 200 hp 4-strokes.
It's the same for the Boston Whaler 190 outrage, also an 8 foot beam.

 

Hehehahahe........I have to say the ultimate stability of those wedge-shaped Euro vessels would have to be suspect. Might be OK 99.9 % of the time, but it's the 0.1% where you don't come home.

 

True.