"Bill Kiene" wrote in message
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Hi David,

This is not my area but I have been looking at ~25' boats with a cabin.

I think you need to consider what size you can tow unless you will keep in
on the water?

Good point. A fishing acquaintance of mine bought a 25' something, without
thinking of how he was going to trailer it. He has a 1999 Crown Victoria
with all the snazzy suspension upgrades, but still, not a car you'd want to
tow with every single weekend. He was about to trade it in for some pig of
an SUV like an Escalade or something, just to tow the boat.

Luckily, his wife slowed him down and reminded him that they only trailer it
about 6 times a year, to move it between lakefront houses owned by their
parents, on different lakes. It sits at those houses for 3-4 weeks at a
time. She called a couple of marinas and found they could get the boat towed
6 times for far less than the cost of putting gas into a fat SUV for three
months. And this didn't take into account driving the SUV around pointlessly
for the off-season.

It may seem like a minor point until you consider that the Crown Vic gets an
honest 24-26 mpg, and something like the Escalade gets 12 mpg on a flat
highway doing 65 mph with the wind behind it.