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The current trend in boats with wide sterns means that an aft cockpit boat can have good sized aft cabins and have a very large cockpit. The interior is less chopped up, and there usually is better storage for bulky items like bicycles. An aft cockpit boat has a lower center of gravity, and less windage. While there is more pitch motion in an aft cockpit, there is less roll motion in an aft cockpit. While a center cockpit is higher up, it is also closer to the spray from the bow. Emergency steering may be more difficult on a center cockpit boat, and the steering system could be harder to fix.
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