"At 5 ft, I slow down to 18 knots but still sitting down. I've run with two 30? ft Contender type CCs. They were jumping out of the water every third wave, everybody standing up in the stern, while I'm still sitting down in the middle of the boat. Last trip to Bimini was on the last day of Debbie, wind(on the beam) got up to a solid 25 knts with much higher gusts, seas got up to about 8 ftand breaking hard, lots of heavy spray coming over the bow and not a drop came in the forward hatch. Always felt totally safe and in control. I've run it in fairly large following seas and it acts "
".he already did that, running WOT in 8-10' seas for 500 miles! Nothing broke, even when specially built all-out race boats were falling apart all around him! No re-engineering required because he built it right the first time"
when i read these types of statements:
there's a big differece between 5' swells and a steep 5' short period chop...
now,with that,making claims like these is rather dangerous,people will read this,and wonder why their boat can't run these kind of speeds in 5' seas,as well as 8' seas too...
2 things boat owners rarley get right: speed of their boat,and the quality of the ride...
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