Only advice I can offer is get as much boat as your can afford. I was orginally going to get a bass tracker and ended up going with 18 1/2' Skeeter bass boat. Now I wish I had gotten more than that. When ya first get the boat it will feel like you have loads of room, once you get used to it you'll wish you had more. By the way, I tow mine with an '03 Jeep Wrangler. Does fine for local towing (within about 100 miles) but will not use the Jeep to take over to the East side of the state.