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Descant · 11-23-2016, 11:16 PM

My family had a 30 footer when I was a kid. By the time I was 13, I could operate independently. It was a matter of height for this boat, not age ( I was short).
Twin inboards are pretty easy. Twin outdrives might as well be single engine. Not even 10 years later, my wife (who had learned twin screws) learned to drive our 26' single inboard, the hardest in my opinion). Later, we went back to twins.
It was always fun to go to Wolfeboro and Meredith and have my wife drive right up between two docks and past four boats to tie up at an inner dock and have bystanders agape while she drove a 37 footer. Twin engines. So easy. Even more fun was watching bystanders as she backed out. 12" on either side was plenty. I digress.
Any thirty foot (+)twin inboard should be easy to drive, dock, anchor., etc. There is a lot of advice on this forum about driving, navigating, docking, etc. Most of it is pretty good, but you have to isolate the advice to what applies to you as a "larger boat". You will draw more, anchor differently, have deck hands, etc..
And a lot depends on home port, Wolfeboro, Meredith, Gilford., Paugus Bay. Other ports focus more on smaller boats.
PM me and give a phone. Happy to chat.

11-23-2016, 11:16 PM	#5
Descant Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Merrimack and Welch Island Posts: 4,597 Thanks: 1,418 Thanked 1,705 Times in 1,109 Posts	30 ft choices My family had a 30 footer when I was a kid. By the time I was 13, I could operate independently. It was a matter of height for this boat, not age ( I was short). Twin inboards are pretty easy. Twin outdrives might as well be single engine. Not even 10 years later, my wife (who had learned twin screws) learned to drive our 26' single inboard, the hardest in my opinion). Later, we went back to twins. It was always fun to go to Wolfeboro and Meredith and have my wife drive right up between two docks and past four boats to tie up at an inner dock and have bystanders agape while she drove a 37 footer. Twin engines. So easy. Even more fun was watching bystanders as she backed out. 12" on either side was plenty. I digress. Any thirty foot (+)twin inboard should be easy to drive, dock, anchor., etc. There is a lot of advice on this forum about driving, navigating, docking, etc. Most of it is pretty good, but you have to isolate the advice to what applies to you as a "larger boat". You will draw more, anchor differently, have deck hands, etc.. And a lot depends on home port, Wolfeboro, Meredith, Gilford., Paugus Bay. Other ports focus more on smaller boats. PM me and give a phone. Happy to chat.