I'm a noob to this forum so please forgive any ignorance I might have. The admiral and I are ready to move up in size to something in the 30ish range. We both like the 280 sundancer and even more so the 290 amberjack for it's semi-fishability. The boat's we are looking at are in the years ranging from 2004-2008 and all have twin motors and are I/O's. We just sold our 22' walkaround which we loved but was getting to small for us and not enough amenities for weekend trips. The walkaround had a single outboard and it was nice and easy to backup to the beach for our sandbar days. The question I have is do either of the sea rays we like have the ability to have the outdrives trimmed all the way up clearing the lowest point of the hull and be able to slowly reverse towards a beach until the hull bottoms out in sand and not the outdrives? We love the layout of the amberjack but if it isn't capable of getting us out to our favorite sandbar we will be forced to look at something more along the lines of a wellcraft coastal 290 with outboards. I did own a 17' bowrider previously that was an I/O Volvo Pentax and I was able to beach that boat no problem.