Rinker cabin lay out
aero3113
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Eventually my wife and I want to up size from our 242, are there any Rinker models under 30 feet that has the forward birth forward of the table. My wife likes the idea of not having to convert the table to go to sleep.
2008 330EC
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Keep in mind, you can get a trailer for a 342. There are many of them in Pittsburgh with trailers.
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I really enjoy the extended cruising ground available when trailering and with the price of fuel it's far less expensive to tow it to my next weekend haunt at 60mph rather than locked into the same few spots near my marina every time I'm out.
As for size, I'm sure the 342 CAN be trailerable, but it's truly impractical for a weekend warrior. My 270 is challenging at many marginal ramps and launching a 342 would be impossible at all but the best (not to mention the towing rig needed). As a marina boat or on a lift it'd be great.
(Bias alert)......I'd offer that the best compromise of economy and size will be in a comfortably beamy trailerable boat (up to 9'-6") under 28' with a big cockpit for entertaining, large rear berth and good interior headroom, adequate galley, a/c, heat, genset full camper canvas, huge swim platform and a larger easier to maintain economical single Mercruiser....... Hey, amazingly that's my boat.
I guess I'm not much help after all. lol. Good luck, Mike
The aft bunk in our 270 is just roomy enough to wrestle with the Admiral but plenty roomy to sleep comfortably. It's somewhere between the size of a queen and king bed. When we convert the V-berth we call it the sultans bed because it's so enormous, at least for a boat that I can still trailer.
BA is right that extra beam opens up everything. Pushing the trailerable limit for beam sure adds room and options over a standard 8'-6" boat. Mike
With all the dough you save burning that greasy diesel fuel you could stay at the nicest marinas around without breaking a sweat.
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