Hello,

While I would really like a 260ss I think that will likely be out of my price range. A 252 could work but the cockpit is less than ideal. My wife and I have 3 kids, if we were take another family that also had 3 kids, could we cram everyone in there without people having to sit in the cabin?

I know there is the bowrider version but I always had the dream of being able to cruise around somewhere with the wife and stay on board for a night or two.

Personally, I wouldn't think that would be an enjoyable time with 10 on the boat. But also would depend how old the kids are? Question for others who have done this... how big boat is needed??

Yeah I know. Maybe I'm just wishful thinking. I just have never sat in one in person. Kids would be 10 and under (oldest is 8 right now). I will probably end up having to go the bowrider route, but I thought I would check how others have managed or not.

The majority of the time it would just be the five of us. Probably take another family of 4-5 with similar aged kids twice a year i would guess.

Stick with boating with family. Guests will trash your boat, drink your beer and leave you to clean the boat. Oh don't count on them to contribute gas money.

Padraig

Agreed, just would like the capability. It is the reason we are upgrading from a 20 ft. Bowrider that only had an 8 person capacity.

Get a 24ft pontoon for the gang as secondary boat