3-4 foot seas no sweat!

shicks007

shicks007

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Let me just tell ya!

I went out last Sat. in the Chesapeake bay in about 3-4 foot swells......My 76' v-20 cuddy with the 140 evinrude did great. We were coming back in with a following sea at around 28 MPH. Needless to say it was a good pounding but the boat did awesome. I need to go through and tighten all the screws on the boat now. When we would land in the trough the water must have shot out 50 ft on each side of the boat thanks to that wonderful bow flare, it was awesome ................................Can you feel my excitment? Anyway I figured I would share that with you guys.
 
Just wait till you try some big water.

The first summer I had my boat, I took my daughter & her friend out in 2-3's to an offshore island, while we were there the weather got worse & worse, ended up coming back in 5-7's (I'm pretty experienced & I'm not kidding) it was something, it was hard to hang on with waves coming over the bow but that old boat just kept on thumping.

smoothed out after the pass, & when I got back I found my bilge pump had knocked loose enroute (major pucker factor) I have two pumps now & both are mounted better.

Turns out it was a tropical depression forming along the coast, not the best day but a hell of a test of the boat.

Doug
 
Last summer, my dad and uncle took the v20 out for some trout fishing at rigs in Breton Sound (Louisiana). They were caught in a horrible thunderstorm on the way in. The waves were up to EIGHT feet!. They could not get to a rig for protection because they had to go with the waves completely in the wrong direction to get home. My dad said that the wellcraft would have sunk if the Johnson would have quit. My uncle fell out of the chair while my dad had trouble holding on to the steering wheel. He said that all he could do was keep the boat in forward enough to ride the swells. I hope that never happens to me.
 
C'mon, you guys haven't even tested your v20s yet.

Back in October of '91, I was coming back from a swordfishing trip in the North Atlantic. Seems a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm that I got stuck in the middle of, it was truly the "perfect storm ;)." Well, there I was in 40'+ seas with my 18-year old 1.6L Sea Drive struggling mightily to get me back to port. Thank goodness I have the cuddy 'cause I needed to use the potty several times given the severity of the weather and the delay the storm caused me in getting back to CT. It took me so long to get back that all the ice melted in my cooler and my beverages became lukewarm! Anyhoo, after motoring around in the massive swells long enough to relay relevent weather data to NOAA (which couldn't even get storm chasing airplanes in the sky), I noticed that my Sea Drive was starting to sound a little tired and, of course, my stupid windshield wiper blade wasn't clearing my windshield very well any more. So I steered my Ray Hunt designed V hull toward home. That V20 cut the 40 foot plus swells so well that I didn't even get very wet (with my top up of course). I wouldn't be caught in Force 12 winds in any other boat.


P.S. I didn't catch any damn swordfish!
 
Don't you just hate it when you're on your way back from the Flemish Cap in your V20 and the ice melts causing your beer to get warm? I know I do. ;D
 
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