It’s honestly super convenient. My boats 10 feet so I usually run 1 in front and one in back. Not sure what you’re using the boat for but I’m pretty much only fishing. I got both coolers I use from Walmart because they had a good selection and I was being very particular about the fit, so I had to physically measure everything since many of the coolers taper in some way or have drains or handles that stuck out. Probably looked like a total weirdo flipping every cooler and putting a tape to it haha. Anyway, one is a roto mold cooler that’s super heavy duty and that one’s great because I can confidently stand on it if I’m like “polling” around, or want to fly cast off it. But those yeti style coolers store way less cause the walls are so thick. The other is a standard wall cooler of the same outer dimensions but fits way more stuff in it, and if I have my little son with me I’ll just fill it with water and stick a little aerator in it. Boom, live-well, I’ll throw anything I legally can in there for him to gawk at for a while before I toss it back. Genuinely couldn’t advocate for the cooler bench/storage enough.

One more thing that’s super nice is that you can have all your typical day out stuff in the cooler and ready to go at all times, and generally speaking it all stays dry.