On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:34:24 -0400, Harry Krause
wrote:

Try something smaller and faster.
If you are not going to cruise north/south, and spend a lot of time
RV'ing through the waterways, why bother with anything more than 30 feet?

I've already got a 27 ft Searay for running around in moderate to flat
conditions. It's a good day boat for where we live, running mostly in
the river and on Pine Island Sound.

It's been my experience however that you really need something up in
the 30s to get a consistently good ride (running on plane) in the Gulf
of Mexico. I have several neighbors with light weight 34s and they do
OK most of the time as long as the waves are 3 ft or less. Above that
and they get beat up and have to slow down. Our old Bertram 33 would
go OK in 3 to 5 ft waves but even that would get tiresome after a
while, and it was a fuel guzzler because of the weight and deep V
bottom.