On a glass boat either stored outside or at dock you can almost always tell which side faces the sun the longest.

Youll want an express with no radar arch. Some boats hit that max width at only 32’ long. So you’ll have to stay below that.

Early 330ss formulas don’t have radar arches, but mine also doesn’t have AC or gen. There may be a few years around 1999-2000 where they had those feature and no arch. 370ss and 400ss all have arches.

Some sea-ray 370/380ss don’t have arches. I’m not sure what other features they have, but they go cheap relative to formulas.

I can’t think of any other express/cuddys in the 30’ that would fit the bill, but I’m sure they exist. Powerboat guide would help you out a lot, I don’t have mine in front me.

Same. I’ve towed 9’2” all over the Midwest and to Florida. 10k+ miles, never an issue.

I had two Formula 33 ss and absolutely loved them. Had the 496’s so it ran great and had a nice cabin. Last year I had a 34 Sundancer. It was a great boat but to slow for me, I felt like a fat old man driving that pig.

I’ve got one boat on a lift in Florida, in the sun. That’s a tough amount of work between the salt and sun. Electrical systems need constant attention, and polishing should be frequent. High and dries would work better. But not much of the marina hanging out and camping experience, if that’s what you want.

Ive got another boat on LOTO, on a lift, covered slip. That’s ideal from a maintenance perspective, but it’s far from me. So lots of long trips are spent just to do work, maintenance and winterization.

I sympathize with family wanting the AC on a hot day, but think I would stick with a trailered boat since you live so close to the lake. Your only talking about 1 maybe 1.5 months out of the year were heat is bad, but it's never too hot to go swimming. A slip with lift and maybe a small dockominium with AC would be a nice upgrade and offer you more time on the water whether it's boating or just hanging out on the dock. You will enjoy being able to step away from the family to go "do some work on the boat" and will make short boat rides much more manageable as your not having to trailer a boat.

It suck's to captain a large boat and take care of it by yourself. I mean really, you slave all week at work, then you spend all weekend entertaining the family. They don't help much with the boat. You can't drink much and you watch everybody else get drunk as hell. It's boring as hell to drive and it's a money pit. ON top of all that, there is always some ungrateful SOB that has something to complain about as if your their f'n waiter.

I had thought thru a perfect boating scenario for probably 10+ years and thought a fast twin engine 32-35 center console with twins and large cabin like an oceanhawk or intrepid with AC and generator, with a slip and lift was the ticket. That way I could still trailer the boat and go down to the coast if I wanted to.

Well, I'm feeling pretty ignorant. I've never heard of a "dockominium". Looked at some pics online. Some of these things are actually pretty cool. Like this one for instance.
https://www.boattexoma.com/spacious-...y-dockominium/

I don't think there are any on my lake, but doesn't mean there won't be someday.
Always wanted a lake house. Thx! Juices are flowing again.

my brother had the mid 80 built sea ray 270.

Pretty sure it it was a 10 foot beam. He towed it with no permits. Every other center console out The is 10 wide and being trailered down the road.

Great boat. You can find them with v-8s. His had twin 260s

I was thinking the same but a 35’ CC cuddy has spartan accommodations. And mine has more beam than an ocean hawk.

Buy a mid 80s 270 sea ray. It’s the roomiest best built and laid out boat in the trailerable cruiser size.

When you called about permits did you tell them the width you were looking to tow?

A slipped boat doubles your maintenance and costs and it sounds like you have storage at home.