well, boats are only 20% of the factor. The fisherman is the other 80%.
however when it comes to go time (tournaments) you are on a timer, so the boats handling and speed play a huge role. The second important thing is the fish finders. If you have a GPS enabled fish finder, you can plot your “hot spots” and just fly around all day to those spots, fish it for a short amount of time and move on. The 3rd thing is the front trolling motor. You want to have something that has enough thrust to hold its own in very rough conditions. If your fishing 10ft from shore, in 4ft of water, and there is 4ft rolling white caps, you better have a 80lb + thrust trolling motor on the front of the boat or your going to be in deep shit.
there is alot to it. The little that I know if from my fishing partner. His boat is insane tho.