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Wife and I had to move boat from Tampa Bayside to Tierra Verde marina this Sunday. Roughly half hour trip down Tampa Bay and into the ICW. Weather was bad!... small craft advisory... choppy 3-4 footers and some whitecaps in the bay. Got to marina and they were busy taking all boats out of water before the storm hit. No other boats leaving ... Given that we could only do this that day, and it was a short trip, we went ahead with our trip. We saw two other boats on the bay in the whole trip!
Boat handled it like a champ. Against the waves at first, beam waves down the channel, then following seas to finish. Maintained planing speed all along. Not once did we pound hard and not once did we get spray over the bow.
More importantly, not once did we have to sit or crouch and not once did the admiral get scared . We'd never gone out in relatively bad weather, but it was nice to find out that our boat could take a little bit of a beating without complaining. Also were finally able to practice the trimming/speed, angle of impact tricks that we studied in our USPS classes. We were left feeling that we bought the right boat!!! (nice when that happens given how expensive these things are, and all the little things that go wrong so often!). Not that we're planing on 'testing its seaworthiness' again any time soon...
Boat handled it like a champ. Against the waves at first, beam waves down the channel, then following seas to finish. Maintained planing speed all along. Not once did we pound hard and not once did we get spray over the bow.
More importantly, not once did we have to sit or crouch and not once did the admiral get scared . We'd never gone out in relatively bad weather, but it was nice to find out that our boat could take a little bit of a beating without complaining. Also were finally able to practice the trimming/speed, angle of impact tricks that we studied in our USPS classes. We were left feeling that we bought the right boat!!! (nice when that happens given how expensive these things are, and all the little things that go wrong so often!). Not that we're planing on 'testing its seaworthiness' again any time soon...