Look into buying one of the boat trader magazines from your local market or gas station. My Dad got one of those when were looking for a boat. We called many of them, went quite a few miles to look at a few, but ended up just buying a used one from a boat retailer. Most of the individuals selling them tend to inflate the price a bit.

We got a relatively new Bass Tracker for about half price of a new one. It's a modern model, probably a 2000 or 2001, but the old girl sure can hammer. A good idea if you buy a used one from a retailer: get the name and number of the previous owner (they have it, trust me). We did the same and the previous owner of our boat was a really great guy. He lives about 1 1/2 hours away and told us lots of good things about the boat and Lake Cumberland (near where he lives, though we didn't have a very good time when we went there). He had done a little DIY fixer job on the livewell pump and it eventually started shorting out after we had used it a few times this year. Dad's a genius when it comes to fixing things, so the livewell's in order now. Our boat works like an angel, love the thing to death, but we really didn't use it that much last year as we didn't get it until the beginning of July.

Good luck with finding one. Those v-bottoms aren't really that popular for this kind of fishing, but you can catch fish on anything that floats, really. Not quite as fast but they do the trick.

Edit: You're a pretty good distance away from me, but by looking at the map, looks like you're not all that far away from Cave Run. That's good for you.