I longline and run planer boards a lot out of my Excel Bay Pro 203 center console. Granted, there is a big difference when fishing with clients and fun fishing with buddies/family. If there are 2-3 of us fun fishing, I'll get up front and have the others on the back deck. I run slightly heavier weights on the front so the baits run BELOW those on the back. The major issue with setting up like this is you have to be very aware of line separation, especially in turns. I typically run 2 feet of line separation when longling jigs or roadrunners, 4 feet when pulling cranks.

If I have 3 clients, I have 2 on the back deck and one up front with me behind the console manning the electronics and net. The person up front may be pushing jigs/roadrunners or running a couple of small planer boards, one off each side. I rarely run more than 2 lines per client unless there are only 2 on the back deck, then I'll run 3-4 lines per fisherman. Longlining is much harder to teach to clients than cranks because they tend to not pay attention to trash on baits or tangled lines.

If you are running a remote steer trolling motor (I run a Rip Tide or Terrova, both I-pilot), just put yourself in one of the client positions I mentioned.

Personally, I rarely fish unless I'm manning a dropper rig right off the side of the console on either side when with buddies. My wife doesn't like to longline. She'd run cranks 12 months of the year. I'm at the console 95% of the time and rarely sit down at all during a fishing day.