Get a boat that has a wide front. The slice of pizza shaped boats are rough on side by side fishin a brush pile sometimes. With live scope being the future nobody wants to fish the back of the boat. Glass boats are wider but cant go some places. I winch my tin boat through 1" of water/mud for 50yds sometimes to get to large oxbows on the alabama river and hanging up on a stump, rock,log or sand bar has never been a problem to get back going in a tin boat or running in 1ft of water. Everybody has lots of good ideas but it really depends on how you fish and where you fish