RE: best boat
it depends on how much is his budget, on offshoreelectrics they had a modified boat on the swap shop forums for 250$ that was a very very good buy. Anyways mostly on ebay you can find different type of boats most are modified or scratch built. Cant name some, but you can always go check and check what mods they got, then get a 411 on the forums about the hull and set up.
Att. Andrew