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Originally Posted by Larry M
The Krogen and GB are way to slow and very high on the maintenance scale. If you only have weekends and a few weeks per year, going 7-9 knots would really limit your cruising area and all that teak? Get something newer and faster like an Express Cruiser. Less maintenance and get to see more. With 2 young children, a plastic boat would be perfect.
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I'm going to have to agree as well. Weekends are shore. In a 8kt boat you'll be very limited in your range.
Get something that can do 20+ knots at cruise to open up a world of places you can see in a weekend.
For weekends you don't need as large of a boat either. Something in the 30' range is plenty for four people on weekend jaunts.
With that budget in mind I'd go with the style you perfer, something like a searay sundancer, or a Tiarra if you like open express cruisers, or any of the Bayliner/Meridians in the 30-40' range if you like a flybridge cruiser.
Get a newer boat so the systems are a bit newer.